Professor Clare Pettitt gives a UNESCO ‘The Literature of Sustainability’ lecture, Friday 24 October

The title of Professor Pettitt‘s lecture is ‘Groundless Empire and Grounded Resistance’ and it takes place on Friday 24 October, at 6pm Indian Standard Time / 1.30pm UK time.  It is part of UNESCO’s series of lectures on ‘The Literature of Sustainability: Reading, Writing and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals’.  Professor Pettitt’s lecture relates […]

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Dr Olivia Krauze’s essay ‘What is a Violent Emotion?’ is published in ‘Victorian Review’

Dr Olivia Krauze’s essay ‘What is a Violent Emotion?’, which won the Hamilton Prize in 2024, was published in issue 50.2 of Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies. The article illuminates an important yet overlooked sub-history of emotion in the nineteenth century: the development of “violent emotion” as a category of intense emotional experience, […]

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Call for Posts for a New Milton Blog on the ‘Darkness Visible’ Online Study Guide

Christ’s College’s new and improved Darkness Visible Milton study site (relaunching December 2026) seeks blog posts of c.1500-2000 words relating to the works, life, times, contemporaries and afterlives of John Milton. The site is primarily a resource for studying Paradise Lost aimed at schools, university applicants, undergraduates, and anyone else interested in getting to know the poem better. The new blog […]

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New research published in BMJ Medical Humanities by Dominic O’Key

Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has recently published an article in BMJ Medical Humanities that explores the roles animals play within the technologies for and stories about human reproduction. The essay, co-written with Georgia Walton (Lancaster University), ‘Reproductive Technology’s Animal Unconscious: Multispecies Motherhood and Humanimal Horror’, is available to read online here.

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Cambridge Group for Irish Studies: Dr Mark Wormald in conversation with the editors of ‘The Poems of Seamus Heaney’ (Faber & Faber, 2025), Chaired by Dr Josie O’Donoghue, Tuesday 28 October

The Cambridge Group for Irish Studies will welcome in-person and remotely the editors of the forthcoming Poems of Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber, 2025), on Tuesday 28th October at 5pm in the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Bernard O’Donoghue, Rosie Lavan and Matthew Hollis will be in conversation with Dr Mark Wormald (Pembroke College) about […]

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‘See You Through’ a poem-novel co-written by Professor Alex Houen: Book Launch and Reading at Pembroke College on 23rd October

Prof. Alex Houen has co-written with Prof. Geoff Gilbert (American University of Paris) a poem-novel entitled See You Through (Broken Sleep Books).  Structured around a shifting dialogue of voices, the book explores intimacy, war, illness, and facial recognition technology.  Alex and Geoff will launch the book at a reading on Thurs 23rd October, 7pm, in the […]

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