As part of the British Academy’s first ‘From our Fellows’ podcast of 2017, Professor Connor offers a short reflection on how academics decide on their next area of research. The British Academy have called the podcast ‘Thinking about Knowing’. https://soundcloud.com/britishacademy/from-our-fellows-03-january-2017#t=23:21
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“From Swing to Afro-Futurism: A Series of Film Screenings”, English Faculty Building
Venue: Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty Building Dates: Tuesday, 31 January; Tuesday, 7 February; Tuesday, 14 February Time: 7.15 pm – 9 pm From Swing to Afro-Futurism: A Series of Film Screenings is a succession of events that supplement the exhibition Reclaiming the Legends: Myth & The Black Arts Movement (currently showing in […]
Continue ReadingNew Exhibition at Faculty of English – “Reclaiming the Legends: Myth & The Black Arts Movement”
Venue: English Faculty Building, First Floor Dates: Monday, 16 January – Friday, 17 February Reclaiming the Legends: Myth & The Black Arts Movement explores the mythical and spiritual dimension of the artistic ethos of the Black Arts Movement (1960s-1975). The display includes a range of material related to anthropology & egyptology, revisionist history, spiritualism & […]
Continue ReadingBooking now open for Crossroads of Knowledge: Early Modern Literature and Natural Philosophy, March 2017
Crossroads of Knowledge: Early Modern Literature and Natural Philosophy 3 March 2017 – 4 March 2017 SG1, Alison Richard Building Registration online via this link: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27058 Deadline Monday 27 February 2017 This conference is part of the research project, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature, a five-year ERC-funded project based at […]
Continue ReadingNational Student Survey opens on 9 January 2017
The National Student Survey (NSS) opens on 9 January 2017 and all students eligible to participate in the survey will be sent an email from Ipsos MORI with a direct link to the survey site. The survey closes on 30 April 2017. The NSS gives students the opportunity to feed back about their course and […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon talks to the Times Higher about the launch of BACLS
Dr Sarah Dillon gives an interview to the Times Higher about the launch of the new British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies which she will Chair from January 2018. BACLS opens for membership in January 2017 with the following mission statement: The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies brings together scholars and practitioners from across the […]
Continue ReadingWinter 2016 Faculty of English Newsletter Now Available
The online version of of 9 West Road , Volume 16/Winter 2016 is now available https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/alumni/ Print copies will be distributed shortly. If you have any comments or suggestions, or if you know of anyone who might like to receive this newsletter and is not on the Faculty’s mailing list, please contact: Newsletter Editor Faculty […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita Performs at Issue Project Room, New York, 17 December 2016
Dr Sophie Seita, a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, will perform her short play “Les Bijoux Indiscrets”, the second in a series of keenly unfaithful ‘translations’ of Enlightenment tragedies and pseudo-scientific texts of the period, at Issue Project Room in New York. Props and set by Emmy Catedral. Performed by an all-female cast: Corina […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Dame Gillian Beer Publishes ‘Alice in Space: the Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll’, December 2016
Professor Dame Gillian Beer’s new book Alice in Space: the sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll is published by The University of Chicago Press in the States on 12 December 2016, and in the UK on 9 January 2017. Nature commissioned Gillian Beer to write an article about this book for their November 17 issue: […]
Continue ReadingMolly G Yarn Speaks at Charles Lamb Society’s Annual Study Day, 10 December 2016
Molly G Yarn, PhD candidate in the Faculty of English, speaks at the Charles Lamb Society’s annual study day on 10 December. The day’s theme is ‘The Lamb Circle and Shakespeare’. The study day takes place at Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury.
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