St John’s College, Cambridge Harper-Wood Creative Writing & Travel Award for English Poetry & Literature St John’s College, Cambridge, invites applications for the Harper-Wood Creative Writing & Travel Award for English Poetry and Literature. The purpose of the Award is to inspire a project of creative writing by making it possible for the holder to engage […]
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Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow (Fixed Term)
Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow (Fixed Term) The Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship is designed to enable practising poets to spend a period as members of the Faculty of English, bringing together the practice of poetry and their academic study. The cost of the Fellowship is met from the Judith E. Wilson Fund, formed from […]
Continue ReadingThe Really Popular Book Club, 28 February 7-8pm
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 […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Michael D. Hurley lectures on John Henry Newman at The St Mary’s Institute of Theology and Liberal Arts
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: […]
Continue ReadingPublication of ‘Echoes of Paradise: Milton’s Epic and the Art of Response’, edited by Dr Ned Allen
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 […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Michael D. Hurley gives a lecture in Oxford at a conference on “Jesuits and the Natural World”
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, […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Clair Wills gives an LRB Winter Lecture on ‘How to Plot an Abortion’, Friday 24 February
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 […]
Continue ReadingCambridge Saffron presents the findings of a year-long project to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university
The University Library has just launched an online exhibition called Cambridge Saffron, the product of a year-long project funded by the University’s Research and Collections Programme to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university. Kasia Boddy & Bonnie Lander Johnson, of the English Faculty, & Alice […]
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