Guest-curated by Dr Robert Macfarlane, The Word-Hoard: Love letters to our land features some of the endangered words for landscape, weather and nature that he has collected, alongside images by his parents, Cumbrian-based photographers Rosamund and John Macfarlane. The exhibition is at Wordsworth House and Garden in Cockermouth and opens on Saturday 11 March. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wordsworth-house-and-garden/features/wild-words-at-wordsworth-house
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Professor John Kerrigan Gives A Lecture Called “Shakespeare Afoot”, University of Georgia, March 2017
John Kerrigan gives a public lecture called ‘Shakespeare Afoot’ at the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia on 20 March. https://willson.uga.edu/event/john-kerrigan-shakespeare-afoot/?instance_id=908
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Discusses SF and Religion on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief
On Monday 13th March, Dr Sarah Dillon will join presenter Robert Beckford on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief to discusses the role of religion in science fiction with Aliette de Bodard, a writer with an interest in the interplay between science fiction and religion, and Roz Kaveney, a writer, poet and critic.
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace Lectures On “Greek Tragic Performance”, Literature Cambridge Study Day, March 2017
Dr Jennifer Wallace: “Greek Tragic Performance”. A lecture at Literature Cambridge study day: “Tragedy, Past and Present”. Stapleford Granary, Cambridge. Saturday 18th March.
Continue ReadingDr Anne Toner Organises Exhibition – Jane Austen’s Sanditon – 200 Years: The History Of An Unfinished Work
Jane Austen’s Sanditon – 200 Years: the history of an unfinished work The Cambridge English Faculty has currently on display material tracing the public life and textual forms of Sanditon, Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, which she composed in the year of her death, 1817. The manuscript of Sanditon is held in King’s College, Cambridge, where […]
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace’s Article “The Tragic Critic After 9/11” Published in PMLA, 131.5 (October 2016)
Dr Jennifer Wallace’s commissioned article for “The Changing Profession” section of PMLA, on tragedy, the Cambridge tragedy paper, and the literary critic’s wider engagement with the world, has just been published in the latest issue of PMLA. “The Tragic Critic after 9/11”: PMLA, 131.5 (October 2016), pp. 1495-1503. https://www.mla.org/Publications/Journals/PMLA
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Presents Radio 4 ‘Seeing is Believing’ Mars Documentary
On Monday 6th March at 11am on BBC Radio 4, Dr Sarah Dillon will present the first in a three part documentary series exploring literary and scientific imaginings of Mars. Seeing is Believing is Episode 1 of We Are the Martians, and will be available to listen again on the BBC iplayer. […]
Continue ReadingDr Joe Moshenska Speaks About ‘A Stain in the Blood’ At The Lichfield Literary Festival, 4 March 2017
Dr Joe Moshenska speaks about his book, A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby, at the Lichfield Literary Festival on Saturday 4 March. http://www.lichfieldfestival.org/events.htm
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace Talks At The Inaugural Tragic Film Festival, 5 March 2017
“Tragic Decisions and Historical Forces”: an after-film talk by Dr Jennifer Wallace at the inaugural tragic film festival (London SadFest 2017) at Genesis Cinema, Mile End, London. Sunday 5 March. London SadFest, 3-5 March 2017, is a unique film festival that celebrates and explores the world of sad films. http://www.londonsadfest.com/
Continue ReadingPOETRY PERFORMANCE SERIES #3: Jeschke/Beynon~Spott~Kemp~Smeaton, Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 3 March 2017
POETRY PERFORMANCE SERIES #3: JESCHKE/BEYNON ~ SPOTT ~ KEMP ~ SMEATON Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 3 March 2017 Book table LISA JESCHKE & LUCY BEYNON Have made theatre together since 2007, in Cambridge, London, Berlin, etc. Some of it has been published, including David Cameron (Shit Valley Press, 2015). VERITY SPOTT Is a poet and musician based in Brighton, […]
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