Dr Leo Mellor will be giving a paper entitled ”Mountain heather and blunt trauma: demob aftermath, violent nature and the post-war sublime’ at the London Modernism Seminar on 7 October. This seminar is organised by The Institute of English Studies (University of London). https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/12599
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Dr Sarah Dillon to join Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Dr Sarah Dillon is to join Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence as a co-Project Lead and Senior Research Fellow on the AI Narratives project which will run for three years from 2017-2020. The project, based at the centre and in conjunction with the Royal Society, aims to explore how AI is currently […]
Continue ReadingFaculty of English part of BBC-Cambridge Short Story Awards Partnership
The Faculty of English is delighted to announce that it is part of a new collaboration between the BBC and the University of Cambridge to support the BBC National Short Story Award, the BBC Young Writers’ Award and the BBC Student Critics’ Award, in a three-year collaboration starting in 2018. The University of Cambridge will […]
Continue ReadingTHE GHOSTS OF KEROUAC: An Evening With Gerald Nicosia
Wednesday 27th September, 4pm Faculty of English; 8pm Cambridge Unitarian Hall. Two events, two venues across one evening. Join Gerald Nicosia author, poet, biographer and acclaimed Beat scholar for a specially curated evening consisting of a lecture presentation and a live poetry reading. Gerald Nicosia is the author of Memory Babe, the classic biography of […]
Continue Reading‘The Poetry of Charles Cotton’ edited by Dr Paul Hartle, published 21 September 2017
Dr Paul Hartle has edited the first complete edition of the poetry of Charles Cotton (1630-1687). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-poetry-of-charles-cotton-9780198123507?q=charles%20cotton&lang=en&cc=gb
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita’s ‘Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers’ to be presented at Bold Tendencies, September 2017
Sophie Seita’s experimental performance piece Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers to be presented at Bold Tendencies, in Peckham, on 29 September. Performed by Vahni Capildeo, Prudence Chamberlain, Adrianna Liedtke, Celine Lowenthal, Nisha Ramayya, Sophie Seita, and Emma Stirling. Sculptural objects, set, and costumes by Anna Moser.
Continue ReadingDr Michael Hurley lectures at The Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, September 2017
Dr Michael Hurley will give a lecture at The Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, at the University of St Andrews, on 22 September. The title for his lecture is ‘Faith and Poetic Assent’, and the details for this talk are: http://itia.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/activities/research-seminar/
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita writes about Tom Raworth in ‘Critical Quarterly’, August 2017
Dr Sophie Seita (JRF, Queens’) writes about the late British poet Tom Raworth’s editing activities and the avant-garde networks with which he was involved in an article published in Critical Quarterly (Volume 59, Issue 2). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/criq.12334/epdf
Continue ReadingLotte Reinbold rediscovers etchings by William Bell Scott illustrating ‘The Kingis Quair’
Lotte Reinbold (Graduate Student, Faculty of English and Robinson College) has rediscovered a series of etchings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Bell Scott, illustrating the Scots dream poem The Kingis Quair. Scott undertook the etchings after painting frescoes illustrating the poem in Penkill Castle, Ayrshire, but only printed a very limited number of copies, and […]
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