A call for papers has been put out for the 2022 post-1750 graduate conference: ‘‘What Does the Poem Think?’: Aesthetics, Poetics and Thought’. Taking its lead from Percy Shelley’s assertion that poetry ‘marks the before unapprehend relations of things’, the call for papers asks respondents to consider the ways and means in which poetry apprehends, […]
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Meena Venkataramanan writes an author profile of Jean Chen Ho for the L.A. Times, January 2022
Link to Meena Venkataramanan’s author profile of Jean Chen Ho: ‘Are you a Fiona or a Jane? Jean Chen Ho’s debut captures a bittersweet L.A. friendship’ Meena Venkataramanan is an M.Phil. Candidate in English Studies in the Faculty of English and Pembroke College, and is a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Continue ReadingSubmissions open for 2022 BBC National Short Story and BBC Young Writers’ Awards
The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) and BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University (YWA) open for submissions at 9am on Thursday 13th January 2022 with award-winning novelist, journalist and broadcaster Elizabeth Day chairing the judging panel for the BBC NSSA, an award that has enriched both the careers of […]
Continue ReadingMaral Attar-Zadeh convenes CRASSH podcast: “Distributed Cognition and Music: Listening with and beyond the Body”
Starting in late January, CRASSH hosts a podcast (and accompanying live Q&A and discussion sessions) titled “Distributed Cognition and Music: Listening with and beyond the Body”. The convenor, Maral Attar-Zadeh and the working group participating in the discussion sessions are all members of the Faculty of English, though the series is interdisciplinary in nature and […]
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan talks to ‘The Space Between’ about representations of Poland in interwar British literature
Link to listen to the podcast episode. The Space Between is a society for the study of literature and culture of the period between the First and Second World Wars. It provides an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum for discussion and research of texts, authors and new approaches to traditionally canonical works. It also encourages fresh […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate writes programme notes for English National Ballet’s production of ‘Raymonda’
Dr Trudi Tate was commissioned to write the programme notes for the English National Ballet’s production of Alexander Glazunov’s Raymonda. The company have changed the setting of the ballet from the Crusades to the Crimean War. The heroine in this version goes to the war to work with Florence Nightingale. Raymonda is due to be performed […]
Continue ReadingJill Damatac gives a paper at ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: the consequence of emigration for sending countries’, CRASSH Interdisciplinary Conference, 27-28 January 2022
Jill Damatac’s paper, ‘Literatures of the left behind: Missing mama and papa in the Philippines’, examines poetry, short stories, and novels focusing on family members left behind by parents working overseas as part of the Philippine labor export industry. It is presented on the second day of the conference, Friday 28 January, in the closing […]
Continue ReadingDr Mathelinda Nabugodi wins the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award
Mathelinda Nabugodi, has won the 2021 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award for her “engaging and fascinating” work of non-fiction The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive. The Award gives £10,000 to an unpublished writer with outstanding literary talent, to enable them to complete a first book, either fiction or non-fiction. Dr […]
Continue Reading‘The Cambridge Companion to Prose’, edited by Daniel Tyler, is published by Cambridge University Press, November 2021
This Companion provides an introduction to the craft of prose. It considers the technical aspects of style that contribute to the art of prose, examining the constituent parts of prose through a widening lens, from the smallest details of punctuation and wording to style more broadly conceived. The book is concerned not only with prose […]
Continue Reading‘Reading Religion & Conflict’: Theology & Literature Online Study Evening for Year 11 & 12s, Thursday 27 January
The Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity are holding an joint online study evening on Thursday 27 January 2022. The event is aimed at students in Years 11 and 12 with an interest in literature, performance, theology, religion, and philosophy of religion – especially those who may be considering studying these subjects at […]
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