Michael J Sullivan gives invited lecture at the Tennyson Society Annual Conference, held at Girton College, Cambridge. His one-hour lecture, on ‘Tennyson and the Victorian Literary Canon’, will take place on 19 August 2016.

Dr Robert Macfarlane writes an essay for the New Yorker on the wood-wide-web and tree-fungi mutualisms, as part of his ongoing work on subterranea and underground knowledge: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-secrets-of-the-wood-wide-web

Marc Mierowsky is awarded the S Ernest Sprott Fellowship in 17th-Century Literature. It is supported by the University of Melbourne and he will be holding the award at the Faculty of English, Cambridge. The S Ernest Sprott Fellowship is open for award annually to an outstanding scholar, who must be an Australian citizen of no […]

Holly Corfield Carr, PhD candidate and current Visiting Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, features in ‘How to Write a Poem’ on BBC Radio 4. The programme will be broadcast in two parts at 4.30pm on Sunday 31st July and the following Sunday 7th August. Written and presented by Glyn Maxwell, ‘How to Write […]

Ear Pieces: Listening, Diagnosing, Writing Faculty of English Cambridge, 16-17 December 2016   Keynote Speakers Carolyn Abbate (Harvard University) Steven Connor (University of Cambridge) Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois at Chicago) Mara Mills (New York University)   Organiser: Edward Allen (University of Cambridge)   Call for Papers Ear Pieces is a new interdisciplinary venture, […]

New Generation Thinker Clare Walker-Gore and novelist Patricia Duncker discuss George Eliot, Eliot’s travels in 19th-century Germany and the music she refers to in her novels and diaries as part of Proms Extra.  The conversation takes place at 17.45 on 2 August 2016 at Imperial College, London, and will be broadcast on Radio 3 that […]

Laura Kilbride and Clive Simmonds curate an exhibtion at the University Library to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads.  This exhibition is in the Library’s North Front Corridor between 20 July and 13 August and accompanies the conference celebrating 150 years of Poems and Ballads held at St John’s […]

Laura Kilbride, Orla Polten and Alex Wong organise an international conference to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s seminal collection, the Poems and Ballads of 1866.  The  conference takes place at St John’s College, Cambridge, 29-30 July 2016. By focusing on Swinburne’s most notorious work, the aim of the conference […]

Jessica Lim co-ordinates a one-day conference on children’s literature, to be held on 16 September 2016 at Lucy Cavendish College. It has an interdisciplinary focus and its theme is ‘Discovering the Child’s Voice’, with an aim to understand different methodologies that can be used in the study of children’s literature. A continuing concern within children’s […]