Professor David Trotter gives the Churchill Lecture at the University of Bristol on 9 February 2017, 5pm-6.45pm, LT2 (11 Woodland Road).  The title of the lecture is ‘Literary Lightning: Modernism and Media Theory’. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2017/february/churchill-lecture.html This lecture will propose lightning as a figure for modernism’s understanding of the electromagnetic frequency domain disclosed by contemporary advances in […]

4th February 2017   18.30-19.30 Rod Mengham and Ian Patterson will be reading their poetry at the Anna Mendelssohn Symposium University of Sussex

Dr Laura Wright is mentioned in a article in The Guardian (Society, Saturday 22 October): ‘If it had a lovely, posh name, it might have been different’: do street names matter? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/22/street-names-matter-property-values

The first meeting of the American Research Seminar & the Twentieth-century and Contemporary Research Seminar this term is a joint occasion featuring Dr Ned Allen (Cambridge) on HOW TO READ AN EARWORM: FROM TWAIN TO TARANTINO Thursday 26 January 4.30pm English Faculty Room SR24 ALL WELCOME

A new medieval studies website has just been launched to promote cooperation and facilitate access to the events and seminars (in literature, history, art history, archaeology, music and more) across the faculties. The website can be found at: www.medievalstudies.group.cam.ac.uk Suggestions for events and news can be e-mailed to medievalstudies@english.cam.ac.uk. We are grateful to the History Faculty […]

After a successful first term the Alchemical Landscape seminar continues into 2017. The series will begin on Tuesday January 17th with a talk by the author Prudence Jones: ‘The Landscape as Oracle-Astrology and the Enchanted Cosmos’. 5pm, Tuesday 17 January 2017, Seminar room SG2, Alison Richard Building. All welcome. For more information see: www.prudencejones.co.uk and […]

Following on from the recent news regarding the declining health of the notorious prisoner and cult-leader, Charles Manson, Dr Riley was approached to write an opinion piece for ‘The i’ newspaper. He was approached on the basis of his current research interests in the late-1960s and previous publications on Manson. The article appeared in the […]

CFP for the ‘Children’s Book as Material Object’ symposium, to be held on Wednesday 10 May 2017. The keynote speaker is Phil Nel from Kansas State University, and this is the website: https://bookobject.wordpress.com/

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 […]

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 […]