Dr Phillip Connell’s new book Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual authority were variously challenged and transformed. Dr Connell reveals the importance of English […]
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BBC Academy Blog: Dr Sarah Dillon on balancing academia and broadcasting
In a new blog for the BBC Academy website, Dr Sarah Dillon – 2013 BBC New Generation Thinker and now presenter of Close Reading on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book and BBC Radio 3’s documentary series Literary Pursuits – reflects on the challenges and rewards of balancing broadcasting and academia.
Continue Reading“Discipline and Excess” Conference at the Faculty of English, April 15, 2016
On April 15, the English Faculty hosts Discipline and Excess, a graduate and early-career conference exploring boundaries and their transgression in English literature until 1750. Dr Helen Barr, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, gives the concluding talk.
Continue ReadingDr Kasia Boddy Convenor for CRASSH Symposium Books in the Making
Dr Kasia Boddy is a Convenor for the CRASSH Symposium, Books in the Making, 14-15 April 2016, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge. This interdisciplinary symposium brings together key players in the book trade and academics from a range of disciplines, and seeks to expand and enrich understanding of contemporary literary production by considering the consequences for […]
Continue ReadingGary Zhexi Zhang – Artists Residency with PRAKSIS, Oslo
Gary Zhexi Zhang is selected for an artist’s residency with PRAKSIS, Oslo, for a month from March 21 2016. The residency, led by David Blandy & Larry Achiampong, investigates ideas of identity in digital societies.
Continue ReadingLydia Davis, Author and Translator, Winner of the Man Booker International Prize – 2016 Graham Storey Lecture
Lydia Davis gives the 2016 Graham Storey Lecture on Monday 2 May, at the Faculty of English. The title of her lecture is “Bob, Son of Battle: Translating a Children’s Classic from English into English”. The lecture starts at 5pm and all are welcome. Lydia Davis is an acclaimed American fiction writer. She has won […]
Continue ReadingDr Jason E Scott-Warren at Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Boston
Dr Scott-Warren represents the Cambridge Centre for Material Texts at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March 31 to April 2 2016. Dr Scott-Warren presents a paper on Cut-and-Paste Bookmaking: The Private-Public Agency of Robert Nicolson to the panel on The Early Modern Material Text I: Reading, Collecting, Compiling (March […]
Continue ReadingDr Ross Wilson Awarded Leverhulme Fellowship for 2016/17
Dr Ross Wilson has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for 2016/2017 to work on Critical Forms: Genres of Criticism from 1750 to the Present. Established by the Will of William Hesketh Lever, the founder of Lever Brothers, The Leverhulme Trust have provided grants and scholarships for research and education since 1925, and are today one […]
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold’s Work on Mapping Paper in Medieval England Project Reported by BBC
The BBC reports on the work of the Mapping Paper in Medieval England project. The project team, led by Dr Da Rold, has as its aim to prepare a new dataset of Medieval Paper Manuscripts written in England between 1300 and about 1500. Funded by the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme, and building on data […]
Continue ReadingDr M E J Hughes’s The Pepys Library and the Historic Collections of Magdalene College Included in TLS Review
Dr M E J Hughes’s new book on the library of Samuel Pepys is included in an article about current interest in the diarist published in the recent TLS: Eye on posterity (March 16). The article by the historian Arnold Hunt shows how recent scholarship has opened up the study of Pepys as a reader […]
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