Dr Siddharth Soni contributes to Cambridge Imagines 2024, a fascinating series of short films with researchers at Cambridge who are imagining the future. Dr Soni was the Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) and the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). He lectures in many areas of modern […]

Code As Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies, a one-day conference on 1 June at Cambridge Digital Humanities – interested in the conversational capacities of code – opens for registration on Thursday 4 April Keynote: Critiquing Code Alignment: Tracing “Forward Alignment” and “Backward Alignment” in Critical Code Studies, David Berry (Professor of Digital Humanities, […]

Sean McEvoy (Murray Edwards) will be the guest on an upcoming episode of The Play Podcast, talking about Jez Butterworth’s new play The Hills of California, which opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London in January. Sean wrote Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth (Palgrave, 2021). The podcast will be released later […]

The programme includes: Talks about Byron, by academics and writers including Bernard Beatty, Drummond Bone, Clare Bucknell, Will Bowers, Christine Kenyon Jones, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Seamus Perry, Diego Saglia, Dan Sperrin, Jane Stabler, Fiona Stafford, A.E. Stallings, Andrew Stauffer, Corin Throsby, Clara Tuite, Ross Wilson. A concert featuring settings of Byron’s poems by Schumann, Wolf and […]

Amy Morris publishes ‘Edward Taylor and Assemblage Art’, an essay interpreting the writings of a colonial American poet with the help of twentieth-century sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson and Joseph Cornell. Published in The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture and Art ed. Matthew Pethers and Daniel Couch (Bucknell University Press), […]

The Faculty of English is delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Fiona Green has been awarded one of the 2024 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching. You can find out more about this year’s winners and the history of the prize here: https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/pilkington-prize/2024 Raphael Lyne, Chair of the Faculty of English, said ‘Fiona is […]

The exhibition on Richard III, a result of a University-funded collaboration between Dr Jitka Štollová and Tiina Burton and Charlotte Percival, lecturers and artists from the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts, opens today at the West Hub. The exhibition blends modern and traditional media as it offers an insight into Richard’s mind in […]

Queer & Trans Philologies Friday 22 March-Saturday 23 March, 9.30am–5.30pm, Online Livestream Convenor Stephen Matthew Turton (English, University of Cambridge) Co-convenors François·e Charmaille (English and MMLL (French), University of Cambridge) Alexandra Zhirnova (ASNC, University of Cambridge) Orsolya Petocz, MMLL (Italian, University of Cambridge) For further information and to book: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39800/

“Stonebreakers” Screening Award-winning 2022 documentary on conflicts over monuments and historical representation in the USA Thursday, March 14 | 5pm | Newnham College, (C. Beerbower Room) Followed by Q & A with the filmmakers Valerio Ciriaci, Isaak Liptzin, and discussants Prof Jenny Mander, Dr Amy Morris, and Saleyha Ahsan.

As part of commemorative events to mark 200 years since the death of Trinity’s most celebrated poet, Trinity College is offering up to three prizes worth £250 each for writing in verse or prose inspired or provoked by Byron. The competition is open to all current Cambridge undergraduate and postgraduate students. Poems must not be […]