Lewis Roberts, PhD candidate in English at St John’s College, Cambridge, and supervisor for the Faculty, has been awarded the Jane Eliza Procter Fellowship at Princeton University for the academic year 2023-2024. Lewis will use this time at Princeton to work on historical poetics, including a critical appraisal of this method for the study of […]

Romanticism and the Black Atlantic 7.30pm-8.45pm on Tuesday 21 March West Court, Jesus College In the wake of calls to decolonise the curriculum, what is the Romantic period’s legacy in our own time? Romanticism is best known as a movement celebrating political and imaginative liberty – the human mind freeing itself from the shackles of […]

Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th March 2023 Basil Bunting: Symposium and Recital, English Faculty Please join us for a symposium celebrating the British Modernist poet Basil Bunting with papers from established and newer Bunting scholars. The keynote speaker will be Dr Alex Niven, who edited the first edition of Bunting’s letters last year, published by OUP. On […]

Dr Diarmuid Hester leads The Really Popular Book Club, 28 February 7-8pm Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) will lead a discussion of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Hours for Cambridge University Library’s The Really Popular Book Club. The event is free, it takes place online, and everyone is welcome to attend. For more information […]

Professor Hurley will give a lecture on ‘The Shattered Majesty of Newman’s Spontaneous Style’ at a symposium on studying Newman through Literature at St Mary’s University, London (20th and 21st February). For a list of speakers and further details, including how to register for the symposium, please see the attached flyer and link: Links for further information: […]

A new creative-critical book entitled Echoes of Paradise: Milton’s Epic and the Art of Response has been published in a limited edition.  In a series of essays – on satire, children’s fantasy fiction, slave narrative, painting, and radio drama – the book tells some of the stories of Paradise Lost‘s enduring influence; but the book […]

Pembroke College, Oxford, and Campion Hall on 23-24 March 2023 Please see here for conference webpages, including programme, abstracts, and speaker biographies The link to register is here Dr Jan Graffius, who is leading the conference’s pop-up exhibition, is giving a free public lecture, Óscar Romero: The Witness of Relics, on Friday 24 March at 17.30, […]

London Review Bookshop 2023 Winter Lectures at Conway Hall (London) and online Clair Wills: How to Plot an Abortion Friday 24 February, 7pm-8.30pm Following the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and other challenges to reproductive rights, Clair Wills considers the stories we tell about abortion – in fiction, film, court rulings […]