The Christian Poetics Initiative (CPI) is an academic network dedicated to exploring the role of Christian faith in the study and practice of literature. Founded at Yale University, the initiative is now hosted by the Rivendell Center for Theology and the Arts (RCTA). The CPI Scholars Network, a central feature of the initiative, brings together senior, emerging, and early-career scholars […]
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Francesca Gardner’s Critical Quarterly study ‘Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers’ in the news
‘Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers’, published 17th May in Critical Quarterly, is a new study by Francesca Gardner, a PhD student and Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar at St Catharine’s College. This week media outlets including The Times, The i Paper, the BBC, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, ITV News, and ITV Anglia have featured her […]
Continue ReadingGordon Duff Prize 2025 awarded to Ruth Abbott
The Gordon Duff Prize is awarded annually for an essay on a subject relating to the science or arts of books and manuscripts. This year’s prize has been awarded to Ruth Abbott for her essay ‘Transcribers of the Mind: Copying Historical Manuscripts in the British Museum Reading Room, 1759-1795’, which was also recently published in Library […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Subha Mukherji granted Dumbarton Oaks One-Month Research Award
Subha Mukherji has been granted a one-month Research Award by Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, for research on ‘Labyrinths as early modern landscapes of Knowledge’. Dumbarton Oaks is a Harvard University research institute, library, museum, and garden located in Washington, DC. Link to further information about Research at Dumbarton Oaks: https://www.doaks.org/research
Continue ReadingProfessor James Raven receives the 2025 Wenjin Book Award
Professor James Raven has received the prestigious 2025 Wenjin Book Award, for his edited book ‘The Illustrated History of the Book’. The annual prize, awarded by the National Library of China, is considered one of the country’s highest literary honours. Titles selected for the award combine in-depth research with writing aimed at the general public. […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Subha Mukherji at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2025 at Hay-on-Wye
Professor Subha Mukherji joins Natalya Din-Kariuki, Issam Kourbaj and Rowan Williams for a panel at HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2025, on 25 May, to talk about Migrant Forms. Link to further information: https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/journeys-into-the-unknown-19156
Continue ReadingAnthony Bale speaks at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Professor Anthony Bale is a guest speaker in a symposium on ‘holy sites in post-crusader Palestine’ at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 21-22 May 2025. The symposium is part of a Swiss National Science Foundation Advanced Grant, Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852). The subject of Professor Bale’s talk is scopic […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Subha Mukherji gives the key-note lecture at the 15th IASEMS Conference
Professor Subha Mukherji gives the key-note lecture at Waters: Fluidity and Crossing in Shakespeare and Early Modern Texts, the 15th conference of IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies), which takes place in Lecce from 16-17 May 2025. The title of Professor Mukherji’s paper is: ‘”Weary of solid firmness”: early modern crossings and […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate is the editor of the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of ‘Mrs Dalloway’
Dr Trudi Tate has written the introduction and notes to a new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, marking the centenary of the book’s first publication in May 1925. Trudi gave a keynote lecture on Mrs Dalloway at the annual conference of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain in April 2025.
Continue Reading‘Orlando: A Pornobiography’ – Research Events, Theatre-Making Masterclasses, and a New Performance from piss / CARNATION (’52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals’ and ‘Ugly Sisters’)
Orlando: A Pornobiography – Research Events, Theatre-Making Masterclasses, and a New Performance from piss / CARNATION (52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals and Ugly Sisters) With the support of the Judith E Wilson Fund, the multi-award-winning trans theatre collective piss/CARNATION (52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals and Ugly Sisters) are returning to Cambridge to develop their new […]
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