The Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; Stanford Text Technologies, Stanford University, and The University Library Research Institute are delighted to announce a Call for Papers for the international conference ‘The Craft, Texture, and Aesthetics of Letter Forms from Antiquity to the Present’. Venue: University of Cambridge, Faculty of English Dates: 2nd to 4th September […]
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Professor Clare Pettitt gives the J Stubbs Lecture in English Literature, University of Toronto, January 2025
Professor Clare Pettitt gives the 2024-25 J Stubbs Lecture in English Literature at University College, University of Toronto, on 22 January 2025. The title of the lecture is ‘White Gold: Extractive Logic and Seriality in the Nineteenth Century’. Link to further information and to register for In-Person or Virtual attendance: https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/events/2024-25-s-j-stubbs-lecture-english-literature
Continue ReadingDominic O’Key publishes chapter on Amitav Ghosh in ‘Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture’
Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a chapter on Amitav Ghosh in Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture. The chapter, co-written with Akshita Bhardwaj (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad), tracks Ghosh’s shifting representations of endangered cetaceans in his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019). Blue Extinction is edited by Vera […]
Continue Reading‘Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice’ edited by Subha Mukherji and Dunstan Roberts is published by Palgrave Macmillan, January 2025
Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice edited by Subha Mukherji and Dunstan Roberts is published by Palgrave Macmillan, January 2025. Link to further information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-74093-0 Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice is part of the ‘Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature’ book series. Subha Mukherji is Editor-in-Chief for the series. Series Editors […]
Continue ReadingThe Faculty of English is proud to congratulate and support Ally Louks, one of our PhD students, who passed her viva last week with no corrections
The Faculty of English is proud to congratulate and support Ally Louks, one of our PhD students, who passed her viva last week with no corrections. Her thesis ‘Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose’ studies how literature registers the importance of olfactory discourse – the language of smell and the […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale is made an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Bale was made an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London, on 4 December 2024. Link to further information: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/fellows
Continue ReadingClair Wills wins Non-Fiction Book of the Year for ‘Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets’ at the An Post Irish Book Awards, November 2024
Clair Wills received the 2024 WHSmith Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award for ‘Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets’ at the awards ceremony which took place in Dublin on 27 November. First awarded in 2006, the An Post Irish Book Awards celebrate and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible. Link to […]
Continue ReadingDominic O’Key gives plenary lecture on extinction at the University of Leeds
Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has been invited to give a plenary lecture at a symposium on extinction at University of Leeds on Wednesday 11th December. The symposium is organised as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded cross-disciplinary Doctoral Training Programme in Extinction Studies, and Dominic will share work from his current project on […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives an invited guest lecture at Aarhus University, Denmark, 25 November 2024
The title of Professor Bale’s lecture is ‘The Siege of Rhodes (1480) and late medieval news’. Link to further information: https://cas.au.dk/en/cvm/events/view/artikel/anthony-bale-the-siege-of-rhodes-1480-and-la-te-medieval-news Professor Bale will also be giving a student masterclass on medieval gender and a work-in-progress seminar on medieval witchcraft.
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