What possibilities and challenges does the digital age pose for the cultural archive? How do the portals through which we approach the text (tags, hyperlinks, indexes) change the nature of what we access? How can computational technologies not merely represent, but also remediate, large corpora or datasets. How might current and prospective projects distinguish themselves […]

Dr Mina Gorji joins Melvyn Bragg on ‘In Our Time‘ to discuss the poet, John Clare.  Listen to the repeat on BBC Radio 4 at 9.30pm, Thursday 9 February.

The Emergence of Standard English in Multilingual Britain, c.1300-1800 A Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS) Workshop Thursday 20 April 2017 (08:30am – 6:30pm) and Friday 21 April 2017 (9:00am – 2:30pm) Venue: Room GR06/07 Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP Organiser: Dr Laura Wright, Reader in English Language at […]

Edward Ragg (Selwyn ’99) reads from his new collection Holding Unfailing (Cinnamon Press, 2017): Date: 11th February 2017 Time: 6.45 p.m. Venue: Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP Drinks: Wine and soft drinks will be available RSVP: If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Edward Ragg on edward.ragg@cantab.net […]

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 […]