PhD candidate Holly Corfield Carr is Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust from January to February 2017, supported by the Clarissa Luard Award for writers under 35. Holly will be working with the archives and collections held at the Jerwood Centre and contributing to the Wordsworth Trust’s Heritage Lottery Fund project, ‘Reimagining Wordsworth’. She will also […]
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Tennyson and the Victorian Literary Canon: New Manuscript Uncovered by Michael J. Sullivan
Michael J. Sullivan, a doctoral candidate and former Harvard Visiting Fellow, has identified Tennyson’s revision copy of The Golden Treasury, the most significant anthology of the nineteenth century. In an article published in Literary Imagination, he excavates its importance for Tennyson’s style and for the anthology’s textual history. The manuscript sheds new light on Tennyson’s […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Angela Leighton gives the 3rd Dyson Lecture, 31 January
The 3rd Dyson Lecture will be given by Professor Angela Leighton on 31 January, in the Old Library, Pembroke College, at 5pm. The title of her lecture will be: ‘Who Called?’ Recalling Walter de la Mare. Professor Leighton has published widely in criticism and poetry. Her books include, among many others, On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism […]
Continue Reading‘Thinking about Knowing’: Professor Steve Connor Records Podcast for British Academy, January 2017
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
Continue Reading“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 […]
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