Dr Laura Wright co-hosts BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. On Tuesday 11 April, at 4pm, Dr Wright and Michael Rosen  find out how much of the English language comes from French roots, from Anglo-Norman onwards. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08lh6r1

Dr Michael Hurley gives a lecture at the Brompton Oratory in London on 25th April, from 7-8.30pm. The title of his talk is ‘Creating Faith: John Henry Newman’s Literary Logic’. The event is free and all are welcome. Further details may be found here: http://www.benedictus.org.uk/page.php?nav=events    

Jamie Fenton, an MPhil Student at Jesus College, has been selected as one of the BMI Woody Guthrie Fellows for 2017. The fellowship provides funding for study at the Woody Guthrie archive in Tulsa, which he is conducting this month as part of his MPhil dissertation. More information about the scheme can be found here: […]

Poetry Reading: Peter Hughes and Kat Peddie 7.30pm Thursday 25 May 2017 Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge   Peter Hughes is the current Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University and a Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Magdalene College. He is the founding editor of Oystercatcher Press. […]

On 5 April John Kerrigan has an audience with President Michael D. Higgins in ‎Áras an Uachtaráin, to exchange publications.

Drew Milne has published a new, handmade artist book, entitled ‘solar commune’, under the imprint of the Institute of Electric Crinolines, and it is currently on show as part of an exhibition in London, as per this flyer: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/millimetre-BookMare-2-flyer-2.jpg http://www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk/projects-cac6    

  Dr Sophie Seita performs her play Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers at La MaMa Galleria in New York, on 30 March 2017. The performance has been commissioned by NYPAC. With: Corina Copp, Constance DeJong, Lucy Ives, Wendy Lotterman, Ada Smailbegovic, Sophie Seita, Jocelyn Spaar, Bridget Talone, and props by Emmy Catedral.

Dr Sophie Seita, a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’, reads from her translations of the German poet Uljana Wolf for a Special Event at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (NeMLA) in Baltimore, MD, on 25 March 2017. Both writers will also lead a discussion on how the multilingual nature of Wolf’s work relates to migration […]

Guest-curated by Dr Robert Macfarlane, The Word-Hoard: Love letters to our land features some of the endangered words for landscape, weather and nature that he has collected, alongside images by his parents, Cumbrian-based photographers Rosamund and John Macfarlane. The exhibition is at Wordsworth House and Garden in Cockermouth and opens on Saturday 11 March. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wordsworth-house-and-garden/features/wild-words-at-wordsworth-house

John Kerrigan gives a public lecture called ‘Shakespeare Afoot’ at the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia on 20 March. https://willson.uga.edu/event/john-kerrigan-shakespeare-afoot/?instance_id=908