Poetry Reading: Peter Hughes and Kat Peddie 7.30pm Thursday 25 May 2017 Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge Peter Hughes is the current Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University and a Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Magdalene College. He is the founding editor of Oystercatcher Press. […]
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Professor John Kerrigan has an Audience with the President of Ireland, 5 April 2017
On 5 April John Kerrigan has an audience with President Michael D. Higgins in Áras an Uachtaráin, to exchange publications.
Continue ReadingDr Drew Milne Publishes New, Handmade Artist Book: ‘solar commune’, March 2017
Drew Milne has published a new, handmade artist book, entitled ‘solar commune’, under the imprint of the Institute of Electric Crinolines, and it is currently on show as part of an exhibition in London, as per this flyer: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/millimetre-BookMare-2-flyer-2.jpg http://www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk/projects-cac6
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita Performs Her Play ‘Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers’ At La MaMa Galleria, New York, March 2017
Dr Sophie Seita performs her play Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers at La MaMa Galleria in New York, on 30 March 2017. The performance has been commissioned by NYPAC. With: Corina Copp, Constance DeJong, Lucy Ives, Wendy Lotterman, Ada Smailbegovic, Sophie Seita, Jocelyn Spaar, Bridget Talone, and props by Emmy Catedral.
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita Reads From Her Translations Of German Poet Uljana Wolf, Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, March 2017
Dr Sophie Seita, a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’, reads from her translations of the German poet Uljana Wolf for a Special Event at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (NeMLA) in Baltimore, MD, on 25 March 2017. Both writers will also lead a discussion on how the multilingual nature of Wolf’s work relates to migration […]
Continue ReadingDr Robert Macfarlane Curates ‘The Word-Hoard: Love Letters To Our Land’ At Wordsworth House, March 2017
Guest-curated by Dr Robert Macfarlane, The Word-Hoard: Love letters to our land features some of the endangered words for landscape, weather and nature that he has collected, alongside images by his parents, Cumbrian-based photographers Rosamund and John Macfarlane. The exhibition is at Wordsworth House and Garden in Cockermouth and opens on Saturday 11 March. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wordsworth-house-and-garden/features/wild-words-at-wordsworth-house
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan Gives A Lecture Called “Shakespeare Afoot”, University of Georgia, March 2017
John Kerrigan gives a public lecture called ‘Shakespeare Afoot’ at the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia on 20 March. https://willson.uga.edu/event/john-kerrigan-shakespeare-afoot/?instance_id=908
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Discusses SF and Religion on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief
On Monday 13th March, Dr Sarah Dillon will join presenter Robert Beckford on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief to discusses the role of religion in science fiction with Aliette de Bodard, a writer with an interest in the interplay between science fiction and religion, and Roz Kaveney, a writer, poet and critic.
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace Lectures On “Greek Tragic Performance”, Literature Cambridge Study Day, March 2017
Dr Jennifer Wallace: “Greek Tragic Performance”. A lecture at Literature Cambridge study day: “Tragedy, Past and Present”. Stapleford Granary, Cambridge. Saturday 18th March.
Continue ReadingDr Anne Toner Organises Exhibition – Jane Austen’s Sanditon – 200 Years: The History Of An Unfinished Work
Jane Austen’s Sanditon – 200 Years: the history of an unfinished work The Cambridge English Faculty has currently on display material tracing the public life and textual forms of Sanditon, Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, which she composed in the year of her death, 1817. The manuscript of Sanditon is held in King’s College, Cambridge, where […]
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