Dr Kasia Boddy is one of seven Cambridge academics to contribute to a University of Cambridge opinion piece, Decision time in the US, ahead of the US Presidential elections on 8 November 2016. This item was picked up by Cambridge Independent and Cambridge News.
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Dr Kasia Boddy Discusses Willa Cather’s ‘O Pioneers!’ at Penguin Book Club Event, 15 November 2016
Dr Kasia Boddy is one of the panel discussing Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers! for Penguin Book’s seasonal Book Club in collaboration with The Happy Reader. The discussion takes place on Tuesday 15 November, 18.30-20.30 at Joseph, 236 Westbourne Grove, London W11 2RH. http://www.joseph-fashion.com/en/ecomru/le-blog/joseph-x-the-happy-reader/page/thehappyreader3 The Happy Reader – published by Penguin Books and Fantastic Man […]
Continue ReadingInaugural Sessions of New Theory, Criticism, and Culture Seminar Announced
This is to announce two seminars taking place this term: Drew Milne (Cambridge), ‘Gleaning Under the Sign of the Anthropocene’ Wednesday, 16th November *1.15pm* G-R06/07 Alexander Freer (Cambridge), ‘Another Freudian Reading’ Wednesday, 30th November *5pm* G-R0607 These are the inaugural sessions of the Faculty’s newly constituted Theory, Criticism, and Culture Seminar. The Theory, Criticism, and […]
Continue ReadingRegistration Open for ‘Ear Pieces: Listening, Diagnosing, Writing’, 16-17 December 2016
Registration Delegates are now invited to register for Ear Pieces. There are 2 packages on offer, both for early-career and senior researchers, and for PhD candidates. ‘Full’ registration includes, in both cases, buffet lunches on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th, tea and coffee throughout the conference, and a three-course dinner in the historic setting of […]
Continue ReadingDr Mina Gorji Lectures at ‘Poetry in Aldeburgh 2016’
Dr Mina Gorji gives a public lecture at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival on Saturday 5 November. The title of her talk is ‘John Clare’s Soundscapes’. http://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
Continue ReadingDr Robert Macfarlane’s Work on Land Use, Language and Environmental Economics Features in Slate.com, November 2016
Dr Robert Macfarlane’s work on land use, language and environmental economics features in a Slate.com article examining the issues surrounding the proposed 1,200-mile North Dakota Access Pipeline: ‘How much is this land worth?’ http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/11/standing_rock_shows_why_environmentalists_should_move_beyond_cost_benefit.html
Continue ReadingDr Raphael Lyne Posts 3-Year Anniversary Review Of His Blog, November 2016
Read Dr Raphael Lyne’s 3-year anniversary review of his blog ‘What literature knows about your brain’: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/cogblog/
Continue ReadingTrudi Tate and Literature Cambridge Present The Literary Kitchen, in Partnership with the Cambridge Cookery School
Trudi Tate and Literature Cambridge present The Literary Kitchen, in partnership with the Cambridge Cookery School. On Saturday 19 November, we have a unique class on Proust and the Madeleine: a talk and reading by distinguished scholar Susan Sellers, followed by a hands-on cooking class making madeleines. http://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/literary-kitchen/ http://www.cambridgecookeryschool.com/classes/category/the-literary-kitchen
Continue ReadingJitka Štollová Publishes in “James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre” (Routledge, 2016)
Jitka Štollová, a PhD student at Trinity College, publishes an essay entitled ‘Plotting Paratexts in Shirley’s The Politician‘ in a recent volume James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2016). As part of the AHRC Major Research Grant, this collection discusses one of the last great Stuart playwrights and authors of masques, […]
Continue ReadingSeminar Announcement – ‘Hardboiled Style: Genre, Coping, Complicity’, 3 November 2016
The next meeting of the American Research Seminar will take place on Thursday 3 November at 5pm in room SR24. Dr Will Norman (University of Kent) will be giving a paper entitled ‘Hardboiled Style: Genre, Coping, Complicity’. He will be focusing on Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon, and Raymond Chandler’s The Big […]
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