Dr Deborah Bowman and Dr Leo Mellor co-organised a major round-table at this year’s Modernist Studies Association conference in Amsterdam (MSA19). Their round-table was: ‘The Long 1930s: Aeriality, Sensations, Language’. The other participants were: James Purdon (University of St Andrews), Abbie Garrington (University of Durham), Jeremy Noel-Tod (University of East Anglia), and David Trotter (Cambridge). […]

Jasmine Jagger (Wolfson Scholar Graduate Student, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford) and Dr. Matthew Bevis (Associate Professor, Oxford) have curated and designed an online exhibition on the relationship between Edward Lear and the Tennyson family. The exhibition results from an examination of the entire collection of letters (over 200) […]

Professor Christopher Page has been elected to the Academia Europaea. http://www.ae-info.org/ Academia Europaea is a European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy. Its members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research.

On September 15, ‘John Clare and the Art of Bird Watching’, a symposium, will be held in the David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge. The event is a collaboration between the Centre for John Clare Studies (English Faculty) and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). Speakers will include Tim Dee, Mina Gorji (Cambridge), Francesca Mackenney (Bristol), […]

Dr Ross Wilson discussed the poetry and gardens of Alexander Pope with Janina Ramirez in a BBC4 documentary, ‘In Search of Arcadia’, which aired on Wednesday, 9th August, and is available to watch again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090c4f6. ‘In Search of Arcadia’ traced the origins of the English landscape movement to a stretch of the Thames to […]

Dr Kasia Boddy’s review of The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner and at Ringside appears in the August 2017 issue of Prospect magazine, available online in July. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/boxings-glory-days-are-over-but-writers-still-come-back-for-more

Steven Connor’s book Dream Machines, a philosophical history of imaginary machines and the ways in which machines come to be imagined, has just appeared from Open Humanities Press, in the Technographies series that is edited by the Faculty’s Literature-Technology-Media research group. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/dream-machines/  

Subha Mukherji, on behalf of the Crossroads of Knowledge project, has won a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant to supplement the project’s qualitative research with quantitative computational analysis. This has been used to set up a new collaboration with the Humanities Digital Workshop at the George Washington University, St Louis, to work on a pilot study, […]

Dr Sarah Kennedy (Research Fellow in English, Downing College) gives plenary lecture, “‘Blood for the Ghosts’: T.S. Eliot in the Underworld”, at this year’s T.S. Eliot International Summer School, which takes place at the Institute of English Studies, University of London from 8-16 July 2017. The lecture is at 9.30am on Wednesday 12 July at the Senate House, University of London. […]