Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at a symposium on Graphic Reading at the University of Birmingham on Friday 19th May. Dr Dillon will be delivering a paper entitled ‘The Ungrammatical Knife: A Feminist Rereading of Ghost Dance‘ which will present material extracted from a chapter of her book, Queer Intimacies: Deconstruction, Feminism, Film, forthcoming […]
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Faculty of English Graduate Conference, 13th May 2017
ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND Trying things out in America: Literature, Culture, and Criticism Faculty of English Graduate Conference, 13th May 2017 from 9.15am PLENARY: CATHERINE GANDER (QUEENS BELFAST) ‘Between no longer and not yet there’s still life’: art and time in Don DeLillo’s late fiction
Continue ReadingCUSU student-led teaching awards, May 9th
It was another strong year for the faculty at the CUSU student-led teaching awards with recognition (from over 600 nominations) for: Priya Gopal, Stacey McDowell, Louise Joy, Hero Chalmers, Chris Burlinson and Helen Thaventhiran.
Continue ReadingPublic House Screening and Q&A with director Sarah Turner and Yvonne Salmon
Public House Screening and Q&A with director Sarah Turner and Yvonne Salmon Tuesday 16 May 6.20pm Cambridge Arts Picturehouse Public House Dir: Sarah Turner United Kingdom / 2016 / 96min Public House tells the story of the Ivy House Pub in Peckham. Slated to be sold to property developers in 2012, the local community […]
Continue ReadingDr Orietta da Rold is an Invited Speaker at Stanford Text Technologies Collegium
Dr Orietta da Rold will present a paper entitled ‘Paper Threads’ at ‘Text, Textile, Texture’, the third Text Technologies Collegium, which takes place at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford, from 17-19 May 2017. Dr da Rold’s paper looks at the cultural and social significance of paper use in medieval England beyond writing. […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita publishes ‘Lodging & Dislodging the Little Magazine: A Google Document Conversation in Fifteen Parts’
In conversation with the scholar and writer Danny Snelson, Sophie Seita discusses the values, histories, present-tense promises, and various metaphoric, material, and digital futures of little magazines. Online here: http://partisanhotel.co.uk/Sophie-Seita-Danny-Snelson The piece was also reviewed on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2017/04/the-little-magazine-in-the-present-tense-sophie-seita-danny-snelson-in-conversation/
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita awarded a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant
Dr Sophie Seita was awarded a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant (£1500) for the development of My Little Enlightenment Plays—a project that blends academic research, performance, and publication. Its aim is to present innovative performance research in innovative formats to an academic and non-academic audience. The project explores forms of collaboration and experiment in contemporary avant-garde […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright interviews Professor Louise Sylvester for Babel Magazine
Interview with a Linguist Dr Laura Wright interviews Professor Louise Sylvester in the May issue (no. 19) of Babel magazine (a linguistics magazine aimed at the general public). http://www.babelzine.com/2016-09-21-12-15-29/issue-guide.html
Continue ReadingDr Jane Hughes and Professor Christopher Page contribute to ‘Pepys the Musician’ for BBC Radio 4
PEPYS THE MUSICIAN Dr Jane Hughes and Professor Christopher Page contribute to an investigation of the seventeenth-century diarist, Samuel Pepys, and his deep passion for music in a Radio 4 programme partly recorded in Magdalene College, Pepys Library, and focusing on Pepys’s private composer, Cesare Morelli. It is available on iplayer here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y8
Continue ReadingDr Robert Macfarlane awarded the E M Forster Award for Literature
Dr Robert Macfarlane has been awarded the E M Forster Award for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award will be made in New York on May 17th. http://artsandletters.org/about/ E M Forster (Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy) bequeathed the American publication rights and royalties of his posthumous novel Maurice to […]
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