Conference registration open A Good Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying Well 10 January 2019 – 11 January 2019 Conference convenors: Dr Laura Davies and Dr Emma Salgard Cunha http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27897 Dying well is an increasingly urgent and ubiquitous topic within discussions of ageing, palliative care, euthanasia, bereavement, grief, and mental health. This conference brings together researchers […]

Dr Trudi Tate has published a new book, A Short History of the Crimean War (I. B. Tauris, 2018). https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Short-History-of-the-Crimean-War-by-Trudi-Tate/9781848858619

Dr Michael D. Hurley has written on why this a doubly important year for Victorian poet G. M. Hopkins: https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/the-inspired-scribblings-of-englands-finest-catholic-poet/

Yui Kajita was awarded the winning place in the Thomas Hardy Association’s Student Essay Prize for her essay, ‘Hardy’s Questioning’, published in the most recent issue of the Hardy Review (vol. 20, no. 1): <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/1934-8908>. Her essay was judged by members of The Thomas Hardy Association’s Editorial Board, who commented that it is ‘a delightful […]

Yui Kajita gives an invited lecture for the Walter de la Mare Society at The London Review Bookshop on Monday, 26 November 2018 at 6.45 pm. The talk is titled, ‘”A lully of voices”: Haunting Echoes in Walter de la Mare and Thomas Hardy’. More details can be found on the Society’s website: <http://www.walterdelamare.co.uk>.

The materials Reading and Seminar series is hugely excited to present Sara Larsen and David Brazil, on a special visit from Oakland, CA, stopping over at Cambridge, UK. Poets and scholars of Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, the Pauline tradition, Sappho, Christian communism, the Paris Commune, the Trojan war, riot grrrl, and more; co-editors of the legendary […]

Readings by novelist Anna Moschovakis, artist Sharon Kivland, and translator Charlotte Collins Hosted by Dr Sophie Seita Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio 19 November 2018, 7.30pm Anna Moschovakis is the author most recently of the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love (Coffee House Press, 2018).  Her books of poetry include the James Laughlin […]

Dr Michael D. Hurley gives a lecture on ‘Wrestling with Hopkins’ at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Literature Festival, to be held at Stonyhurst College on 10th November.

Dr Orietta da Rold delivers a Plenary Lecture entitled ‘From Pulp to Fictions: The Role of Paper Before Print’ at ‘Working with Archives’, AHRC Archives and Writing Lives Project and Quadrivium UK, University of Glasgow, 10 November 2018.