The Cambridge Festival 2021 The new, interdisciplinary Cambridge Festival, which replaces the Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, will host an extensive series of free, online events between 26 March and 4 April this year. Link to The Cambridge Festival website: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/ Faculty of English Events American English: Dialogues in Dialect Available […]

Link to Professor Lepecki’s essay, ‘Movement in the Pause’: https://contactos.tome.press/movement-in-the-pause/

We are delighted to announce that Meena Venkataramanan has won a Gates Scholarship to come to the Faculty next year to do an MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature.  Current Gates Scholars in the Faculty include Thai-Catherine Matthews (who is enrolled in the MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature), Jumana Esau (MPhil in Criticism and Culture) […]

This talk explores the experience and representation of quiet in Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight” to ask broader questions about the ways poetry can register and express volume and sound dynamics. It offers historical contexts for understanding the poem including the development of musical and rhetorical notation for volume as well as accounts of shifting reading […]

Ananya Mishra reports for Tate Research on an online panel discussion on the life, legacy and enduring activism of Pakistani artist Lala Rukh, with particular focus on her work Rupak 2016. The event was organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and took place remotely on 2 October 2020. Link to Ananya Mishra’s report: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/research-centres/hyundai-tate-research-centre-transnational/event-report-lala-rukh-life-legacy […]

The Delegate Assembly is the business meeting of the Modern Language Association and meets at the annual MLA convention.  Dr Wilson was nominated by the Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Forum and having been elected will serve for the three-year term, 2021-24. Link to further information about the MLA: https://www.mla.org/About-Us/About-the-MLA

As part of LGBTQ+ History Month, Strawberry Hill House hosts a series of online talks which explore the House, its occupants and our cultural understanding of LGBTQ+ history during the long 18th century. Anne Damer’s Place in Queer History – Caroline Gonda Wednesday 24 February, 7pm Anne Seymour Damer (1748- or 1749-1828) found fame in […]

‘The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts’ is supported by a 3-year ‘Opus’ grant awarded by NCN, the Polish government-funded National Science Centre. It involves a collaboration between Kazimierz Wielki University (Bydgoszcz) and Poznań University with some significant research outputs: besides conference activity and journal articles, Dr Newbould will co-edit a major collection of essays […]

Pre-seminar materials will be uploaded on the Drama and Performance Moodle site. Please contact ew513@cam.ac.uk with any questions.