THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED: Dr Lotte Reinbold, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Selwyn College, Cambridge, will be giving a talk entitled: ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and Place in the Medieval Dream’ The talk is on Tuesday, 9th October, at 6:00 in the Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson […]
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‘Carcanet Classics’ Book Launch, Tuesday 9 October 2018, 6.30pm, Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
All are welcome to join the editors of three new Carcanet titles at an informal launch event (with refreshments) at Heffers Bookshop (Trinity Street) on Tuesday 9th October 2018, 18:30 to 20:00. WALTER PATER: Selected Essays, edited by Alex Wong JOHN HEATH-STUBBS: Selected Poems, edited by John Clegg PROPERTIUS: Poems, edited and translated by Patrick […]
Continue ReadingLaura McCormick Kilbride publishes ‘Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History’, September 2018
Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History establishes Swinburne’s significance in the historical development of English poetry from 1865 to the present. Situating Swinburne on the cusp of modernism, it argues that Swinburne had no personal style because he possessed all styles. His mastery of traditional verse forms promoted a level of stylistic self-awareness which […]
Continue ReadingDr Hester Lees-Jeffries introduces performance of ‘The Winter’s Tale’, Globe Theatre, London, 2 October 2018
Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries gives a pre-show lecture, ‘Setting the Scene’ for The Winter’s Tale, in London on Tuesday 2 October at 6pm. Dr Lees-Jeffries will introduce the play, with the support of a Globe actor. There will be music, romance, a baby, a bear, and a living statue (though not all of these will necessarily […]
Continue ReadingDihal and Dillon Win Major Grant from Templeton World Charity Foundation
Faculty members Dr Kanta Dihal and Dr Sarah Dillon have been awarded a major research grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to fund the Global AI Narratives project (GAIN) based at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, with Dr Stephen Cave and Dr Beth Singler. The project aims: to understand how different cultures and […]
Continue Reading2018 BBC Short Story Award with Cambridge University
Sarah Hall, prize-winning novelist and short story writer, has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University for the third time for ‘Sudden Traveller’. She won the award in 2013 for ‘Mrs Fox’ and was shortlisted for the first time in 2010 for ‘Butcher’s Perfume’. Both stories appeared in her debut […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael D Hurley speaks at 19th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2018
Dr Michael D Hurley speaks at The 19th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, held this year at Uppsala University and Stockholm School of Theology, in Sweden, 28-30 September, 2018. His paper is entitled, ‘Attunement to Truth in Literature’. http://isrlc2018.se/
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