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 […]
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Winter 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 […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita Performs at Issue Project Room, New York, 17 December 2016
Dr Sophie Seita, a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, will perform her short play “Les Bijoux Indiscrets”, the second in a series of keenly unfaithful ‘translations’ of Enlightenment tragedies and pseudo-scientific texts of the period, at Issue Project Room in New York. Props and set by Emmy Catedral. Performed by an all-female cast: Corina […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Dame Gillian Beer Publishes ‘Alice in Space: the Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll’, December 2016
Professor Dame Gillian Beer’s new book Alice in Space: the sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll is published by The University of Chicago Press in the States on 12 December 2016, and in the UK on 9 January 2017. Nature commissioned Gillian Beer to write an article about this book for their November 17 issue: […]
Continue ReadingMolly G Yarn Speaks at Charles Lamb Society’s Annual Study Day, 10 December 2016
Molly G Yarn, PhD candidate in the Faculty of English, speaks at the Charles Lamb Society’s annual study day on 10 December. The day’s theme is ‘The Lamb Circle and Shakespeare’. The study day takes place at Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury.
Continue ReadingDr Jenny Bavidge Gives a Talk on the Origins of Sleeping Beauty, November 2016
Dr Jenny Bavidge gives a talk on the origins of Sleeping Beauty as part of the Royal Ballet’s ‘Insights’ series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl-zGm4UWEs
Continue ReadingThree New Titles Published in Dr Sarah Dillon’s Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays Book Series
On Thursday 8th December 2016 from 6.30-9pm the Centre for Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, will kindly host the book launch for three new titles in Dr Sarah Dillon’s Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays book series with the publisher Gylphi. The titles in the Series are devoted to contemporary Anglophone writers whose work is popularly […]
Continue ReadingOn Shakespeare and the Theatre of the Absurd at ‘Václav Havel’s Legacy and the Future of Central Europe’, 26 November 2016
Registration is now open for a symposium ‘Václav Havel’s Legacy and the Future of Central Europe’, held on 26 November at McGrath Centre, 10am-6pm, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. The symposium is free and includes lunch and a wine reception. Commemorating what would have been Václav Havel’s 80th birthday, this international symposium offers a platform for […]
Continue ReadingJohn James / Ian Heames Poetry Reading, Introduced by J.H. Prynne, Monday 21 November
As part of the Faculty’s display of the work of J.H. Prynne, John James will be reading his new work *On Reading J.H. Prynne’s Sub Songs* on Monday, 21 November at 7pm in the Judith E. Wilson Studio, English Faculty (9 West Road, Sidgwick Site). John James’ first published work ‘Mmm…Ah, Yes’ appeared in 1967, […]
Continue ReadingSeminar Series: Poetics Before Modernity – Western Literary Theory from Antiquity to 1700
Poetics before Modernity RITA COPELAND (University of Pennsylvania) “An Emotional Anthology of Style” Thursday (!), 24 November 2016, 5.15 PM Old Combination Room, Trinity College ALL WELCOME! Poetics before Modernity brings together leading classicists, medievalists, and Renaissance scholars to present new work on Western literary theory from antiquity to 1700. With the exception of Prof. […]
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