Dr Mina Gorji gives a public lecture at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival on Saturday 5 November. The title of her talk is ‘John Clare’s Soundscapes’. http://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
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Dr Robert Macfarlane’s Work on Land Use, Language and Environmental Economics Features in Slate.com, November 2016
Dr Robert Macfarlane’s work on land use, language and environmental economics features in a Slate.com article examining the issues surrounding the proposed 1,200-mile North Dakota Access Pipeline: ‘How much is this land worth?’ http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/11/standing_rock_shows_why_environmentalists_should_move_beyond_cost_benefit.html
Continue ReadingDr Raphael Lyne Posts 3-Year Anniversary Review Of His Blog, November 2016
Read Dr Raphael Lyne’s 3-year anniversary review of his blog ‘What literature knows about your brain’: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/cogblog/
Continue ReadingTrudi Tate and Literature Cambridge Present The Literary Kitchen, in Partnership with the Cambridge Cookery School
Trudi Tate and Literature Cambridge present The Literary Kitchen, in partnership with the Cambridge Cookery School. On Saturday 19 November, we have a unique class on Proust and the Madeleine: a talk and reading by distinguished scholar Susan Sellers, followed by a hands-on cooking class making madeleines. http://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/literary-kitchen/ http://www.cambridgecookeryschool.com/classes/category/the-literary-kitchen
Continue ReadingJitka Štollová Publishes in “James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre” (Routledge, 2016)
Jitka Štollová, a PhD student at Trinity College, publishes an essay entitled ‘Plotting Paratexts in Shirley’s The Politician‘ in a recent volume James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2016). As part of the AHRC Major Research Grant, this collection discusses one of the last great Stuart playwrights and authors of masques, […]
Continue ReadingSeminar Announcement – ‘Hardboiled Style: Genre, Coping, Complicity’, 3 November 2016
The next meeting of the American Research Seminar will take place on Thursday 3 November at 5pm in room SR24. Dr Will Norman (University of Kent) will be giving a paper entitled ‘Hardboiled Style: Genre, Coping, Complicity’. He will be focusing on Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon, and Raymond Chandler’s The Big […]
Continue ReadingColloquium Announcement – Matter at the Crossroads: Literature and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England, November 2016
MATTER AT THE CROSSROADS: LITERATURE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge 25 November 2016 Speakers include Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck), Katherine Hunt (University of Oxford), Claire Preston (QMUL), Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge), Jonathan Sawday (SLU), and Helen Smith (University of York). Please note the deadline for registration is Tuesday […]
Continue ReadingSamuel Beckett: A Symposium Celebrating the Publication of the Fourth Volume of the Letters
Samuel Beckett A symposium celebrating the publication of the fourth volume of the Letters King’s College, Cambridge Friday November 25th, 14.00 – 18.00 Papers from: Steve Connor, Drew Milne, Emily Fitzell, Martin Crowley In conversation with: Chris Prendergast and John Haynes Readings from the Letters: Dan Gunn and George Craig To register for this free […]
Continue ReadingReading J.H. Prynne
A display of the work of J.H. Prynne is available to view on the first floor of the Faculty, with additional materials in the Faculty Library. Reading J.H. Prynne celebrates the poet’s role from the beginnings of the British Poetry Revival, as well as his influential part in the pedagogy of this university and the […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Kilbride Wins 2016 Raymond Williams Postgraduate Essay Competition
Dr Laura Kilbride wins the 2016 Raymond Williams (RWS) Postgraduate Essay Competition: the Simon Dentith Memorial Prize for her essay ‘The New Catholic Left: Language, Liturgy and Literature in Slant Magazine, 1964-1970’.
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