Ever wondered whether W. S. Graham liked to draw? Or what he made of flying? Or what kinds of spaces – real and imagined – are opened up by his tricky poetry? Come along on Friday to hear a group of people asking and answering these questions – and some others – as we celebrate […]

Dr Sophie Seita has published ‘The Politics of the Forum in Feminist Avant-Garde Magazines After 1980‘ in the Journal of Modern Literature, 42.1 (Fall 2018), pp. 163-182. Abstract Dissatisfied with the exclusion of women from preceding avant-gardes, the overlapping communities that formed around the feminist avant-garde magazines Chain, Raddle Moon, HOW(ever), and HOW2 attempted to forge […]

Dr Trudi Tate has published an article about Vietnamese-American refugee writers Viet Nguyen and Thuy Le: ‘Living Afterwards’, Book 2.0, 8:1-2 (2018).    

Dylan Carver, Eliza Haughton-Shaw, Alexander Hobday and Ephraim Levinson are all speaking at the British Society for 18th Century Studies Annual Conference in Oxford, January 4-6, in a special panel showcasing current PhD work in the Faculty. The title of the panel is ‘Cultural Transformation in Later Eighteenth-Century Britain: New Directions from the University of […]

Conference registration open A Good Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying Well 10 January 2019 – 11 January 2019 Conference convenors: Dr Laura Davies and Dr Emma Salgard Cunha http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27897 Dying well is an increasingly urgent and ubiquitous topic within discussions of ageing, palliative care, euthanasia, bereavement, grief, and mental health. This conference brings together researchers […]

Dr Trudi Tate has published a new book, A Short History of the Crimean War (I. B. Tauris, 2018). https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Short-History-of-the-Crimean-War-by-Trudi-Tate/9781848858619

Dr Michael D. Hurley has written on why this a doubly important year for Victorian poet G. M. Hopkins: https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/the-inspired-scribblings-of-englands-finest-catholic-poet/

Yui Kajita was awarded the winning place in the Thomas Hardy Association’s Student Essay Prize for her essay, ‘Hardy’s Questioning’, published in the most recent issue of the Hardy Review (vol. 20, no. 1): <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/1934-8908>. Her essay was judged by members of The Thomas Hardy Association’s Editorial Board, who commented that it is ‘a delightful […]

Yui Kajita gives an invited lecture for the Walter de la Mare Society at The London Review Bookshop on Monday, 26 November 2018 at 6.45 pm. The talk is titled, ‘”A lully of voices”: Haunting Echoes in Walter de la Mare and Thomas Hardy’. More details can be found on the Society’s website: <http://www.walterdelamare.co.uk>.