Ahead of the centenary of Peter Shaffer’s birth on 15 May, James Critchley has published an article in the TLS on an unpublished play of his. Link to the article: https://www.the-tls.com/arts/theatre/unpublished-play-peter-shaffer-essay-james-critchley James, who is a PhD student at Trinity College and the Faculty of English, is due to appear on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme […]
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An evening with poet Mina Gorji at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, 9 April 2026
The evening began with a presentation of Art of Escape (Carcanet, 2020), with Dr Gorji in conversation with translator, Jane Wilkinson and members of the Monteverdelegge Poetry Translation Lab. This was followed by a poetry reading from Art of Escape, Scale (Carcanet, 2022), and recent poems, and a Q&A session. Link to further information about the […]
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on marking anniversaries — broadcast this morning on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’
Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0nfns52 Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7L0S7qOH6YWRiwNYnBsRS5
Continue Reading‘When the Music Fades: Power, Surrender and the Soul Survivor Generation’, a new book about faith, adolescence and spiritual abuse, published April 30th
In response to recent safeguarding investigations into Soul Survivor, a well-respected Anglican youth ministry, When the Music Fades takes a wider look at the culture and practices of charismatic evangelical Christianity in the nineties/noughties. What happens if you tell a bunch of teenagers they’re supposed to be saving the world? What is the impact when […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives a guest lecture at Trinity College, Connecticut, 14 April 2026
Professor Anthony Bale gives a guest lecture, ‘The First Witches: The 14th-century English invention of the witch’, on 14 April, at Trinity College, Connecticut, as part of the College’s A. K. Smith Visiting Scholar series. Link to further information: https://www.trincoll.edu/english/department-events/a-k-smith-scholars-series/
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives an invited lecture at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, 11 April 2026
Professor Anthony Bale gives an invited lecture, ‘New news’, at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee on 11 April. Link to further information about the Colloquium: https://www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/
Continue ReadingCfP: ‘Freedom of Conscience in the pre-Enlightenment, 1000-1650’, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 17 June 2026
Conference organisers: Anthony Stonestreet (Third Year English PhD, Homerton) Rachael Hodgson (Third Year English PhD, Murray Edwards) Deadline for submissions: Thursday 28 May Call for Papers:
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale’s ‘A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ is translated into Serbian and Hebrew
A Serbian translation of A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, by Anthony Bale, was published by Laguna in March 2026. Link to further information: https://laguna.rs/proizvodi/knjige/turisticki-vodic-kroz-srednji-vek/ A Hebrew translation, published last month by Keter Books, was the subject of a long review article in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, available here.
Continue ReadingDr Louis Klee wins the University English 2025 Book Prize for ‘The Constellational Novel’
Louis Klee has been awarded the 2025 University English Book Prize for The Constellational Novel (Oxford University Press, 2025). Link to further information: https://universityenglish.ac.uk/ue-2025-book-prize-winner/
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