Dr Mina Gorji contributes to ‘John Clare’s Scraping’,  first broadcast on BBC Sounds on Sunday 12 January 2020.  For the 200th anniversary of John Clare’s poems, this programme takes a look at the music and songs he gathered. For more information and to listen to the programme go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d6sh  

Jennifer Wallace speaks on the keynote Presidential Panel at the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) convention in Seattle on Friday 10th January, on the subject of “Being Human”. https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/8184

A new Mellon Sawyer Seminar at the University of Cambridge (2020-21) advertises Graduate Dissertation Fellowships (2) International Research and Collaboration Awards (4) The University of Cambridge is hosting a Mellon Sawyer Seminar entitled Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power from May 2020-April 2021, website here. The Seminar will be co-hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, […]

This exhibition celebrates the life and work of the Jerusalem-born artist Kamal Boullata (1942—2019), and is curated by Claudia Tobin and the artist’s wife, Lily Farhoud. It centres on Boullata’s handmade artist’s books and silk screen prints, which explore the interplay between poetry and image, and convergences of colour and architecture. At the centre of […]

On Monday 16th December, Dr Sarah Dillon and postdoctoral researcher Dr Olivia Belton will participate in UNESCO’s first Global Literacy Design Forum at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The Forum will bring the general public together with leading Futures Literacy practitioners, designers, facilitators, teachers and researchers. The Forum has two primary objectives. One is to prepare […]

Dr Michael Hurley, Faculty of English and St Catharine’s College, has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, for Trinity Term 2021. https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/all-souls-college-oxford

MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole will read from his work and talk about the hybrid Hebrew poetry of Muslim Spain and its relevance for readers and writers today. Moving between eleventh-century Iberia and today’s Middle East and America, between translations and his own original English poems, Cole will take us into the heart of […]

On 15 November John Kerrigan will give a talk at Stanford University entitled ‘Cambridge and the Slave Trade’. Link to Stanford English News & Events

Dr Sarah Kennedy is this year’s recipient of the John Serio Award, for her essay, “‘We reason of these things with a later reason’: Plain Sense and the Poetics of Relief in Eliot and Stevens”. The prize is awarded by a committee from the Board of The Wallace Stevens Journal, and recognises the best essay […]

Join James Riley as he presents his new book, The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties at this special event hosted by Heffers, Cambridge. James will be discussing and reading from the book, there’ll be a Q+A as well as a signing session. Copies of the book will be […]