Barrie Cooke’s archive is a treasure trove of previously unseen poems, personal letters and literary papers written by Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and other writers, as well as electrifying drawings and paintings by Cooke, inspired by his friends. The archive was acquired by Pembroke College, Cambridge. Link to the podcast.
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Cambridge Festival, Sat, 27 March 2021, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT, ZOOM, Rambert Dance Company in Conversation: a panel discussion with members of Rambert’s creative team, including dancers, about the creation of their acclaimed production Draw from Within
Draw from Within was one of the earliest new dance pieces created during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was a hugely ambitious work to create technically as it was conceived to be performed and consumed as a live stream globally. So rather than performing “in front of” cameras Rambert Dancers performed with cameras “within” the production, […]
Continue ReadingDiscover Faculty of English events at the Cambridge Festival 2021, Friday 26 March-Sunday 4 April @Cambridge_Fest
American English: Dialogues in Dialect 26 March – 4 April on demand talk and children’s activity pack Link to 30-minute talk by Molly Becker aimed at adults, which goes live on 26 March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGRgWxwKMZI There is also a short introduction to dialect aimed at children aged 8-12, which looks at how dialect influences the words […]
Continue ReadingCall for abstracts for “O’ you wonder!”: Worldviews in pre-1750 literature. Virtual Graduate Conference, 17-18 April 2021, University of Cambridge, Faculty of English
We are now accepting abstracts for “O’ you wonder!”: Worldviews in Pre-1750 Literature. This virtual conference will take place on 17th and 18th April 2021. The early modern period witnessed unique and rapid epistemological expansion, as the world was ‘discovered’, colonised and conceptualised. Literature became a portal by which to experience this ever-expanding world and […]
Continue ReadingMichael D. Hurley discusses his research on poetics and metaphysics with Professor Matthew F. Wickman @byuhumcenter
In a wide-ranging conversation for the “Faith and Imagination” podcast, Dr Hurley speaks with the Director of the Humanities Center at BYU about his recent book, “Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief”. Dr Hurley addresses the question of what poets (and readers) believe poetry can say or do that other […]
Continue ReadingDr Fiona Green appointed an Editor of the Review of English Studies
Fiona Green joins Thomas Keymer, Juliette Atkinson, Colin Burrow, and Daniel Wakelin as an Editor of the Review of English Studies. RES was founded in 1925 to publish literary-historical research in all areas of English literature and the English language from the earliest period to the present. Link to the Review of English Studies.
Continue ReadingDr Mary Newbould co-edits ‘Laurence Sterne’s “A Sentimental Journey”: A Legacy to the World’, published by Bucknell University Press, March 2021
Co-edited by M-C Newbould and W B Gerard, ‘Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey: A Legacy to the World’, is the first essay collection devoted exclusively to A Sentimental Journey and some of Sterne’s ‘lesser-known’ works, such as The Bramine’s Journal. It partly represents the fruits of a conference organised by Dr Newbould at Jesus College […]
Continue ReadingOn March 17, from 6pm to 8pm, the Ted Hughes Society, chaired by Dr Mark Wormald, and Pembroke College host an online seminar for their members to celebrate Ted Hughes’s ‘Crow’ at 50
Panellists include Marina Warner, Alice Oswald, Mark Cocker and Grzegorz Kwiatkowski; there will be contributions from a range of other writers and scholars. Registration is open to members of the Ted Hughes Society and its partner associations, and members of Pembroke College. Link to more details of the seminar, and details of how to become […]
Continue ReadingTom Zille contributes a chapter to ‘Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction’ and speaks on a recorded Zoom panel to mark its publication by UCL Press on 25 February
Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction is the first ever volume of essays on Georgette Heyer. Tom Zille’s chapter is enitled ‘Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel’. Link to further information about ‘Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction’ Link to the Panel recording (The recording will be released on the day of […]
Continue ReadingTrudi Tate recently gave a guest lecture on Virginia Woolf via Zoom to students at Regensburg University at the invitation of lecturer and Cambridge alumnus Peter Waller
The title of Trudi Tate’s lecture was To the Lighthouse: The Mother in the Garden. https://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-kultur/anglistik/special_lectures/index.html
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