Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mgcl37 Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/44fHgV6uJqaFiGL1oYdjVQ Catch up on other recent broadcasts by Prof. Hurley on: AI, beauty, language.  

A performance followed by a discussion with Jay Bernard. Elaine Mitchener is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation and visual art. Her work is challenging and direct, bringing a subtle London edge to Black avant-garde traditions stemming from Europe, the Caribbean and America. Core to her […]

A new book on Shakespeare and material culture – specifically textile culture – by Hester Lees-Jeffries (University Associate Professor) will be published by Oxford University Press on 11 November.  Textile Shakespeare takes as its starting point the centrality of cloth to the culture and economy of early modern England, as it explores what it terms […]

Dr Sarah Kennedy has a chapter published today in The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry (Cambridge University Press), contributing new insight into the work of the celebrated Australian poet and environmentalist Judith Wright. This landmark volume edited by Ann Vickery and Philip Mead brings together First Nations experts, internationally recognised scholars, distinguished practitioners, and emerging […]

Juliette Bretan has been awarded a one-month Fellowship at the Nordost Institut in Lüneburg, to look at the idea of the study of Eastern Europe in English and European culture. The Nordost Institut is a research institution focusing on the history and culture of Germans in northeastern Europe as well as the history and culture […]

https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call-for-papers-bsls-winter-symposium-january-30th-2026-alternate-histories-of-the-body/ In recent years, diverse fields related to literature and science studies, such as the medical humanities, critical neurodiversity studies, and the study of the haptic, have been re-evaluating the human body, its histories, and the impact of those histories today. At the same time, fields such as feminist theory, critical race theory, trans studies, […]

PhD Candidate Liam Coles (Darwin College) has co-edited the latest Issue of the Cambridge Quarterly, which focuses on the poetry and legacy of the British modernist poet, Basil Bunting. The Issue was co-edited by Liam and Dr Alex Niven (editor of Bunting’s letters) and features articles from Dr Rebecca Bradburn (Oxford), Dr Alex Wylie (York […]