Holly Corfield Carr, PhD candidate and current Visiting Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, features in ‘How to Write a Poem’ on BBC Radio 4. The programme will be broadcast in two parts at 4.30pm on Sunday 31st July and the following Sunday 7th August. Written and presented by Glyn Maxwell, ‘How to Write […]

Ear Pieces: Listening, Diagnosing, Writing Faculty of English Cambridge, 16-17 December 2016   Keynote Speakers Carolyn Abbate (Harvard University) Steven Connor (University of Cambridge) Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois at Chicago) Mara Mills (New York University)   Organiser: Edward Allen (University of Cambridge)   Call for Papers Ear Pieces is a new interdisciplinary venture, […]

New Generation Thinker Clare Walker-Gore and novelist Patricia Duncker discuss George Eliot, Eliot’s travels in 19th-century Germany and the music she refers to in her novels and diaries as part of Proms Extra.  The conversation takes place at 17.45 on 2 August 2016 at Imperial College, London, and will be broadcast on Radio 3 that […]

Laura Kilbride and Clive Simmonds curate an exhibtion at the University Library to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads.  This exhibition is in the Library’s North Front Corridor between 20 July and 13 August and accompanies the conference celebrating 150 years of Poems and Ballads held at St John’s […]

Laura Kilbride, Orla Polten and Alex Wong organise an international conference to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s seminal collection, the Poems and Ballads of 1866.  The  conference takes place at St John’s College, Cambridge, 29-30 July 2016. By focusing on Swinburne’s most notorious work, the aim of the conference […]

Jessica Lim co-ordinates a one-day conference on children’s literature, to be held on 16 September 2016 at Lucy Cavendish College. It has an interdisciplinary focus and its theme is ‘Discovering the Child’s Voice’, with an aim to understand different methodologies that can be used in the study of children’s literature. A continuing concern within children’s […]

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Steven Connor has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. We extend our warmest congratulations to Professor Connor.

Jessica Lim is awarded a Bursary by BSECS to attend its Postgraduate and Early-Career Conference in Barcelona in late June/early July 2016 at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS)  annual postgraduate and early-career scholars’ conference provides a forum for researchers working on all aspects of the history, literature and culture […]

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2016-2017. The British Academy intends, through this scheme of Mid-Career Fellowships, both to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and social sciences.

Jessica Lim’s article ‘Appropriate(d) nursery reading; or, (implied) child readers, Charles Lamb, and the Godwins’ Juvenile Library’ is published in The Charles Lamb Bulletin, 163 (Spring 2016), 55-64.