Claudia Tobin has contributed to the exhibition ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings’, which has recently opened at Tate St Ives. The exhibition is led by Woolf’s writing, which will act as a prism through which to explore feminist perspectives on landscape, domesticity and identity in modern and contemporary art – with works […]
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Happy Valentine’s Day, star-crossed lovers…
As she prepares to begin work on a new introduction for the New Cambridge Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries is writing about Romeo and Juliet every day in 2018, line by line. So far she’s got to Act 1 Scene 3 – Romeo and Juliet haven’t actually met yet… You can read the […]
Continue ReadingCreatures of Light: Ted Hughes at Pembroke — an exhibition in the Faculty Library’s Benson Gallery
Ted Hughes came to Cambridge in 1951, to read English at Pembroke. In 1953 he dreamed a burned fox entered his room one night as he struggled with an essay. It told him: ‘Stop this — you are destroying us.’ In February 1956 he met Sylvia Plath at a party to launch St Botolph’s Review. […]
Continue ReadingPolyphonic Poetry: Katy Bohinc, Andrea Brady, Janice A. Lowe – Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Cambridge University, 7.30pm, 21 February 2018
Come hear these stellar poets perform at the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio at Cambridge University, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, UK! KATY BOHINC is a poet and data scientist; an avant-garde publisher and a professional marketer; an activist, an astrologer and an innovator. She has three books of poetry: TRINITY STAR TRINITY […]
Continue Reading‘Alas, Poor Yorick!’: A Sterne 250-Year Anniversary Conference, March 2018
In February 1768 Laurence Sterne – already famous for his provocative ‘Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’ – published his second novel, ‘A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy’. A few weeks later, this clergyman-turned-author died. 2018 marks the 250-year anniversary of these momentous events, and provides an occasion to celebrate Sterne’s life, work, […]
Continue ReadingSean Bonney: Reading and Seminar, UK Launch of ‘Ghosts’, 24 February 2018, Faculty of English (Materials Seminar & Reading Series)
MATERIALS SEMINAR & READING SERIES Email David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk) for details Saturday, February 24th Sean Bonney Reading and Seminar UK launch of GHOSTS Sean Bonney will give a paper on Amiri Baraka at 16:00 in GR06/07, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, and a reading at 20:00 in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio. This will […]
Continue Reading2017-18 issue of ‘9 West Road’ now available
The 2017-18 issue of the English Faculty Magazine, 9 West Road, is now available on the Faculty website: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter/9westroad17.pdf
Continue ReadingDr Alison Wood convenes British Academy Funded Network on Critical University Studies, January 2018
How can Universities better serve the public good? Dr Alison Wood (English/CRASSH) has won a British Academy Rising Stars Engagement Award (£14,500) to convene a research network on Critical University Studies (CUS). 20 early career researchers from 13 institutions and 10 disciplines are gathering to consider how Critical University Studies – and so also Universities […]
Continue ReadingThe Alchemical Landscape Research Seminar @ CRASSH, University of Cambridge, Lent 2018
The Alchemical Landscape Research Seminar continues at CRASSH. This term’s programme includes talks by artists, writers, academics and film-makers: Sarah Turner (University of Kent) Polyphonic Cinema 5pm 30 January 2018, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Karl Bell (Portsmouth) Supernatural Cities: Urban Mindscapes and Academic Liminality 13 February 2018, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building […]
Continue ReadingCall For Papers : ‘Attention and Distraction’, deadline extended until 15 February
We’re very pleased to announce Cambridge University’s annual student-organised graduate conference on literature before 1750, to be held on Friday, April 20, 2018. Our conference theme, ‘Attention and Distraction’, draws on recent work in the history of reading and cognition to ask what it means to ‘attend’ to a text, from the medieval period to […]
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