The first Centre for Material Texts exhibition is now live in the new exhibition cases on the first floor of the English Faculty at 9 West Road. Graduate students on Ruth Abbott’s MPhil module on 19th century writers’ notebooks have installed an exhibition of original 19th century commonplace books. The exhibition had its first installment […]
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Dr Lucy Allen – Positively Medieval on BBC Radio 4
Dr Lucy Allen presents a new episode of Four Thought, a BBC Radio 4 series of thought-provoking talks in which speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect culture and society. In Positively Medieval, Dr Allen argues that the way in which medieval society is often presented – as indifferent to sexual violence […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Investigates the Story Behind the Story of Literature’s Great Works – BBC Radio 3
Faculty of English academic Dr Sarah Dillon is to become a literary detective in a new Sunday Feature series on BBC Radio 3 exploring great works of literature and how they came to be written. The series, called Literary Pursuits, begins this Sunday (10th January) with a look at the story behind Great Expectations by […]
Continue ReadingThe Manuscripts Lab
A new collaborative project ‘The Manuscripts Lab’ has just been launched. The Lab provides a virtual space for academics, students and anyone interested in the handwritten culture to share ideas, findings, and resources for teaching and research about manuscripts. It intends to embrace manuscript studies across a broad geographical and temporal spread. The lab welcomes contributions about projects, events and […]
Continue ReadingMLA Prize for Catherine Phillips for Hopkins Letters
The Modern Language Association of America today announced it will award the thirteenth Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters. The winning edition is The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, volumes 1 and 2: Correspondence, edited by R. K. R. Thornton, of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Catherine Phillips, […]
Continue ReadingThe Academic Book of the Future: Evolution or Revolution?
Last week the Centre for Material Texts convened a one-day colloquium entitled ‘The Academic Book of the Future: Evolution or Revolution?’ This was part of Cambridge’s contribution to a host of events being held across the UK in celebration of the first ever Academic Book Week, which is itself an offshoot of the AHRC-funded ‘Academic […]
Continue ReadingGhost Noise: Technology, Paranormality and the Horror of Media
As part of the Multiverse Autumn Residency Event at Wysing Arts Centre, Dr James Riley presents ‘Ghost Noise’, a speculative talk dealing with cybernetics and paranormality. The talk is followed by a Q+A with residency artist Paul Purgas (Emptyset). The event also features presentations and screenings from Wysing’s current artists in residence and further invited speakers: Essi Kausalainen, […]
Continue ReadingThe Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice
Drs Trudi Tate and Kate Kennedy publish a new edited collection of essays looking at the legacy of the First World War through the lens of the creative arts. As a specialist in the literature of conflict, Dr Tate explores the ways in which writers expressed the impact of trauma on families – and child rearing […]
Continue ReadingProfessorship of Medieval and Renaissance English
We are delighted to announce that Dr Nicolette Zeeman has been elected to the Professorship of Medieval and Renaissance English from 1st January 2016.
Continue ReadingFestival of Ideas – The Alchemical Landscape
Contemporary writers, film-makers and musicians are increasingly investing the English landscape with notions of magic and the occult. As part of this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Yvonne Salmon and Dr James Riley present a field guide to this ‘geographic turn’. The Alchemical Landscape Faculty of English, GR06/07 24 Oct 2015, 6:30pm – 7:30pm This event is featured as part […]
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