Dr Orietta da Rold is to deliver a paper entitled ‘Paper in medieval English books’ at a colloquium on The Paper Manuscript at the Department of Modern Irish, University College Cork, on Friday 26 May 2017.
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Registration open for ‘Embodying Media: From Print to the Digital’
Embodying Media: From Print to the Digital Venue: Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Date: Saturday, 27th May, 2017 The relationship between the media of writing and the human body has been fraught with affective potentials. This one-day conference aims to examine this relationship between the materiality of texts and the materiality of bodies by bringing together researchers from […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Dame Gillian Beer wins Truman Capote Prize
Professor Dame Gillian Beer has been awarded the the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. This award is administered by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Literary Trust. http://www.iowacenterforthebook.org/awards/capote-awards
Continue ReadingDr Fiona Green discusses the life and work of Emily Dickinson on Radio 4
Dr Fiona Green discusses the life and work of Emily Dickinson with Melvyn Bragg on Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’. Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08p5lbp —
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Address at ‘Graphic Reading’ Symposium, University of Birmingham
Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at a symposium on Graphic Reading at the University of Birmingham on Friday 19th May. Dr Dillon will be delivering a paper entitled ‘The Ungrammatical Knife: A Feminist Rereading of Ghost Dance‘ which will present material extracted from a chapter of her book, Queer Intimacies: Deconstruction, Feminism, Film, forthcoming […]
Continue ReadingFaculty of English Graduate Conference, 13th May 2017
ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND Trying things out in America: Literature, Culture, and Criticism Faculty of English Graduate Conference, 13th May 2017 from 9.15am PLENARY: CATHERINE GANDER (QUEENS BELFAST) ‘Between no longer and not yet there’s still life’: art and time in Don DeLillo’s late fiction
Continue ReadingCUSU student-led teaching awards, May 9th
It was another strong year for the faculty at the CUSU student-led teaching awards with recognition (from over 600 nominations) for: Priya Gopal, Stacey McDowell, Louise Joy, Hero Chalmers, Chris Burlinson and Helen Thaventhiran.
Continue ReadingPublic House Screening and Q&A with director Sarah Turner and Yvonne Salmon
Public House Screening and Q&A with director Sarah Turner and Yvonne Salmon Tuesday 16 May 6.20pm Cambridge Arts Picturehouse Public House Dir: Sarah Turner United Kingdom / 2016 / 96min Public House tells the story of the Ivy House Pub in Peckham. Slated to be sold to property developers in 2012, the local community […]
Continue ReadingDr Orietta da Rold is an Invited Speaker at Stanford Text Technologies Collegium
Dr Orietta da Rold will present a paper entitled ‘Paper Threads’ at ‘Text, Textile, Texture’, the third Text Technologies Collegium, which takes place at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford, from 17-19 May 2017. Dr da Rold’s paper looks at the cultural and social significance of paper use in medieval England beyond writing. […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita publishes ‘Lodging & Dislodging the Little Magazine: A Google Document Conversation in Fifteen Parts’
In conversation with the scholar and writer Danny Snelson, Sophie Seita discusses the values, histories, present-tense promises, and various metaphoric, material, and digital futures of little magazines. Online here: http://partisanhotel.co.uk/Sophie-Seita-Danny-Snelson The piece was also reviewed on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2017/04/the-little-magazine-in-the-present-tense-sophie-seita-danny-snelson-in-conversation/
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