Dr Laura Wright continues to co-host BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. Monday 22 January – Hello! Is it me you’re looking for? – The art of greetings Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright discuss the origins and psychology […]

Nicolette Zeeman is lecturing on ‘The Hypocritical Figure’ from her forthcoming book on medieval allegory and Piers Plowman at Princeton and Johns Hopkins on 13th and 15th March.

‘Attention and Distraction’: Cambridge University’s annual student-organised graduate conference on literature before 1750 Friday, 20 April (13:00-19:00), at CU Faculty of English (GR 06/07). For pre-modern readers, what did it mean to ‘attend’ (or fail to attend) to a text? What is the role of boredom and distraction in the reading process? How do we […]

Dr Sarah Kennedy’s  book, T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination, is published by Cambridge University Press in March 2018. How is a poem made? From what constellation of inner and outer worlds does it issue forth? In her  book T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Sarah Kennedy asks these questions in relation to […]

Film Screening & Q&A with Uisenma Borchu Schau Mich Nicht So An / Don’t Look at Me That Way, by Uisenma Borchu Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens’ College, 15 March 2018, 2.30-4.30pm Part of UCU Teach-Out Programme Hosted by Sophie Seita Trailer: https://vimeo.com/166792779

On Saturday 10 March, a symposium on Translation will be hosted at Magdalene College, under the joint auspices of the English and Modern Languages departments, as part of the College’s Festival of Change. Speakers will be Professor of Italian, Robin Kirkpatrick, German translator Dr Sophie Seita, and the award-winning Hungarian poet, George Szirtes, in a […]

Dr Mary Newbould discusses the influence of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, on ‘Free Thinking’, BBC Radio 3, 10pm, Thursday 1 March. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09t2g8g  

A major, international, two-day conference, JOYCE TO BECKETT: IRELAND AND MODERNISM, with participants – several from the English Faculty – chosen by John Kerrigan will be held at Magdalene College on 22-23 March. The distinguished line-up of speakers includes many of the leading figures in Irish studies across several generations, as well as creative writers […]

Chicago University Press has issued the paperback edition of Professor Dame Gillian Beer’s Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo22991911.html