Dr Jennifer Wallace has been invited to speak about “Poets and Philhellenes” at the Greek Embassy in London on 26 October at an event to mark the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution. Click here for further information and to register.
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Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) has won first prize in the Humanities Innovation Week competition
Run by Cambridge Enterprise, the competition helps researchers to develop their innovative ideas into products or services that will have impact outside academia. Diarmuid’s winning entry was ‘Prick Up Your Ears: cultural history audio trails’. From the press release: Diarmuid’s cultural history audio trails allow listeners to head out onto the streets to immerse themselves […]
Continue ReadingArticle by Molly Becker published in the Journal of American Studies
Molly Becker’s article, ‘Talking American in the Midwest: Lingustic Diversity and Authenticity in the Twentieth-Century United States’, has just been published in the Journal of American Studies. Link to the article. Molly Becker is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English and Downing College.
Continue ReadingNina Ellis wins an Editors’ Choice Award in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest
Congratulation to Nina Ellis on winning an Editors’ Choice Award in the annual Raymond Carver Short Story Contest for ‘The Kingdom of the Shades’, a queer tale of love and loss, about ballet dancers and ghosts wandering around Rome at night. ‘The Kingdom of the Shades’ will be published in the forthcoming Fall Issue of […]
Continue ReadingDr Subha Mukherji gives an invited talk at the conference ‘Between the Labyrinth and the Way of Light: Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge and Johannes Amos Comenius’, September 2021
The title of Dr Mukherji’s talk is “Wandering Mazes”: The Labyrinth as a Knowing Metaphor in Renaissance Culture. Link to conference programme: https://www.flu.cas.cz/images/akce/prednasky_seminare/2021/metaphors_program_A5_net.pdf]
Continue ReadingAre you thinking of applying to @Cambridge_Uni to study English? Registration now open for September Open Days, including course presentation, live Q&A and chat
The next Cambridge Virtual Open Days will take place on 13-26 September 2021. The programme of events for English is as follows: Course presentation and sample lecture (pre-recorded): available 13-26 September Live Q&A webinar: 16 September, 1pm-1.40pm Live chat: 16 September, 2pm-3pm For further information and to sign up to live sessions: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-open-days/programme
Continue ReadingJohn Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prize Winners Announced
Churchill College has announced the winners of the 2021 John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Poetry Prize and Other Prize: Poetry Prize Winner: Talin Tahajian, for her poem ‘New Year Poem’ ‘Other’ Drama Prize Winner: Chakira Alin, for her play ‘Heroes’ ‘Other’ Drama Prize Runner-up: Joe Venable, for his play ‘Rapture’. Talin Tahajian is a Postgraduate […]
Continue ReadingEmma Gomis, Louis Klee and Lewis Todd read at the Hastings Bookshop Poetry Festival, Saturday 14 August 2021 @H_B_P_F
Link to festival Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hastings-bookshop-poetry-festival-tickets-162564489765?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Continue ReadingKatherine Dixon (PhD candidate, Faculty of English and St Edmund’s College) selected as an Edinburgh TV Festival 2021 TV PhD Delegate
Katherine Dixon has successfully been selected as one of this year’s 15 TV PhD candidates (a scheme developed by the Edinburgh TV Festival in partnership with the AHRC). Of the 15 TV PhD Delegates, 6 will be chosen to pitch their ideas for a television production based on their research to a panel of commissioners […]
Continue ReadingJoin us at the English Faculty virtual Open Day, today, Friday 9 July: online chat 3-5pm and Q & A webinar 5pm
Link to further information about the open days, including links to the online chat, Q & A webinar and recorded presentations.
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