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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Ross Wilson organises ‘A Lecture by John Guillory’ and ‘Stefan Collini and John Guillory in Conversation’
Along with Professor Stefan Uhlig (University of California, Davis, and Derek Brewer (Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College), Ross Wilson has organised a public lecture by Professor John Guillory (New York University) and a conversation between Professor Guillory and Professor Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge). Professor Guillory’s lecture is entitled ‘”It’s not what you know, it’s who […]
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson publishes ‘Vanishing Landscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them’ (Hodder Press, 2025)
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson publishes Vanishing Landscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them (Hodder Press, 2025).
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan presents a BBC Radio 3 ‘Sunday Feature’: Tango Goes East
Juliette Bretan traces tango’s musical journey eastwards to Poland and beyond. A frenzied, interwar explosion of creativity that still echoes today with some unexpected revivals. Tango Goes East will be broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday 27 April at 7.15pm.
Continue ReadingRoss Wilson edits ‘Percy Shelley in Context’ (Cambridge University Press)
Ross Wilson has edited Percy Shelley in Context, which is published by Cambridge University Press on 24th April. With 40 contributors from seven countries, this volume draws together leading experts and emerging voices on the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). The volume shows Shelley to have been a writer in the broadest […]
Continue ReadingSarah Dillon contributes to BBC Radio 4 Extra series ‘Changing Climates’
Professor Sarah Dillon contributes expert insight to the BBC ’s Changing Climates series which runs Monday 21st April to Friday 25th April on Radio 4 Extra. Presented by the meteorologist John Hammond, with contributions by another Cambridge academic – Professor Mike Hulme in Geography – the series explores how science fiction has long served as […]
Continue ReadingDr Rebecca Anne Barr publishes ‘Revisiting Richardson’, Bucknell University Press, April 2025
Dr Rebecca Anne Barr has just published Revisiting Richardson (Bucknell University Press). Co-edited with Prof. Bonnie Latimer (University of Southampton), this collection of essays updates critical debate on the writings of Samuel Richardson and reconsiders his literary legacies. For more information see https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/revisiting-richardson/9781684485659/
Continue ReadingProf. Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam has been made an International Visiting Fellow at Australian Catholic University @ACUmedia
Prof. Hurley will join Australian Catholic University (ACU) at its North Sydney campus in September, contributing to teaching across the curriculum of its Western Civilisation Program, delivering the Aletheia Lecture, and conducting a Masterclass at the Ramsay Centre. He will also give a keynote address to the ACU community. Professor Peter Anstey, Director of the […]
Continue ReadingThe Medieval Ideas Creative Lab at the Faculty of English has a website
The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab now has an embryonic website where future events will sit: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/micl/ The Lab is a new initiative to explore how the creative arts and creative industries might engage with medieval sources. The Principal Investigator on this project is Professor Anthony Bale.
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