On Thursday 16th August, Dr Sarah Dillon joined Mariella Frostrup and other guests for a special edition of BBC Radio 4’s Open Book on literary criticism at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The event was part of the Faculty’s participation in the BBC National Student Critics’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University, details of […]
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Dr Michael Hurley gives pre-show talk for ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain’, Cambridge Arts Theatre, 9 July 2018
On Monday 9 July, Dr Michael Hurley gave the pre-show talk at The Cambridge Arts Theatre, before the first performance of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain, a play by Simon Reade, starring Robert Powell and Liza Goddard.
Continue ReadingBethany Dubow awarded the 2018 Kinsella Poetry Prize
Bethany Dubow has been awarded the 2018 Kinsella Poetry Prize, hosted by Churchill College and the Cambridge English Faculty. The prize was judged by Lee Ann Brown, a practising poet and outgoing Judith E Wilson Poetry fellow, and Tim Cribb, fellow of Churchill College. The prize is open to all students in statu pupillari at […]
Continue ReadingBooking open: ‘Reading Walter de la Mare, 1873-1956: “a voice which has no fellow”’ , 20-21 September 2018
You are warmly invited to attend the first international conference on Walter de la Mare’s works. The programme includes an exciting line-up of talks, with plenty of opportunity for discussion. There will also be a pop-up exhibition by Professor Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (Pennsylvania State University) in collaboration with Carolina Rabei, illustrator of Faber and Faber’s children’s […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita wins a Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award, July 2018
The Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards were set up to recognise and reward those who undertake quality engagement with research. Each winner receives a £1000 personal prize and a trophy. Seita produced a collaborative multi-media creative project that combined experimental performances, lecture performances, poetry, publications, and installations; both emerging from and feeding back into […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate organises summer courses for Literature Cambridge, July 2018
Trudi Tate has organised two summer courses for Literature Cambridge. Virginia Woolf and Politics was held at Wolfson College, 1-6 July, and Women Writers: Emily Bronte to Elizabeth Bowen took place at Homerton College, 8-13 July. There were lectures, seminars, supervisions, and excursions to places of interest in Cambridge. Enthusiastic students aged from 17 to […]
Continue Reading‘Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England’ by Dr Jane Partner, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England https://www.amazon.co.uk/Poetry-Vision-England-Literature-History/dp/3319710168/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1527444157&sr=8-4&keywords=poetry+and+vision This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry’s own relation to truth. Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision […]
Continue ReadingCambridge Festival of Creative Writing, in connection with the BBC Short Story Competition, Madingley Hall, 7 July 2018
Join us for this one-day event on 7 July at Madingley Hall, featuring talks, seminars, panel discussions and workshops by leading short story writers, academics and representatives from the world of publishing. Some sessions are free to attend, and there will be book signings throughout the day. Speakers include: Michèle Roberts, Irenosen Okojie, Zoe Gilbert, Tibor Fischer, Sarah […]
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe talks about William Morris on Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’, 9am, 5 July 2018
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Continue ReadingDr Leo Mellor lectures at the University of Freiburg, 4 July 2018
Dr Leo Mellor lectures on ‘What British prose learnt from documentary film: some islands, trains, planes & spare time of the 1930s’ at the University of Freiburg on Wednesday 4 July 2018.
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