Under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts and the Writing Britain Conference Series The introduction of paper to the West was a major technological innovation which transformed the ways in which texts of all kinds were transmitted. Having proved itself over many centuries as the intellectual fabric of Asian and Middle Eastern societies, […]

Dr Sophie Seita contributes to the Royal Academy’s Lates programme ‘Rrose Sélavy’s Dada Extravaganza’ with ‘Reading Fountain: A Lecture Performance in Two Parts’ on December 9.   https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/rrose-selavys-dada-extravaganza

The Blind Man and rongwrong were seminal New York Dada magazines edited and published by Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and Beatrice Wood in 1917. This facsimile edition, introduced by Sophie Seita and published by Ugly Duckling Presse, celebrates the 100th anniversary of their publication. The box set also includes a two-colour offset reproduction of Beatrice Wood’s poster for […]

Dr Joseph Hone’s new book, Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne, is published by Oxford University Press on 14 December 2017: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/literature-and-party-politics-at-the-accession-of-queen-anne-9780198814078 Dr Joseph Hone is a Junior Research Fellow in English at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Joseph.Hone/

Dr Sophie Seita’s article ‘Thinking the Unprintable in Post-Digital Publishing’ just appeared in Chicago Review, 60.4 (Fall 2017), 175-194. In this article, Dr Sophie Seita argues that what she calls the “imagined printedness” in the digital publishing projects of Troll Thread and Gauss PDF (with side-glances at the magazine Triple Canopy and Ugly Duckling Presse) allows […]

JUDITH E. WILSON STUDIO, ENGLISH FACULTY, 9 WEST ROAD, 1ST DECEMBER, 19.30 – 21.00 P.M. DRIFT READING SERIES #3: CASSELS / PERSAD / SCHNEIDER / BEAGHTON ‘all life is just a game for metal, my chemist says, from wolfish gloopy kills way down to you, dear bacterial reader’ READINGS BY: IMOGEN CASSELS JOE PERSAD KATE […]

The English Faculty Library’s Benson Gallery and the Faculty’s exhibition space on the first floor landing are host to an exhibition curated by Dr Drew Milne entitled ‘Welcome to the Biotariat’. The display looks at lichen symbiosis & representation and contains photographs, poems, scientific data and specimens. Lichen & lichenology has been a major influence […]

Dr James Riley responds to the news of Charles Manson’s Death for ‘The Conversation’: http://theconversation.com/charles-manson-death-of-americas-1960s-bogeyman-70887 Dr Riley was approached to write this article on the basis of his research interest in the culture of the 1960s.