The Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; Stanford Text Technologies, Stanford University, and The University Library Research Institute are delighted to announce a Call for Papers for the international conference ‘The Craft, Texture, and Aesthetics of Letter Forms from Antiquity to the Present’. Venue:  University of Cambridge, Faculty of English Dates: 2nd to 4th September […]

Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a chapter on Amitav Ghosh in Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture. The chapter, co-written with Akshita Bhardwaj (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad), tracks Ghosh’s shifting representations of endangered cetaceans in his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019). Blue Extinction is edited by Vera […]

Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice edited by Subha Mukherji and Dunstan Roberts is published by Palgrave Macmillan, January 2025. Link to further information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-74093-0 Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice is part of the ‘Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature’ book series.  Subha Mukherji is Editor-in-Chief for the series.  Series Editors […]

The Faculty of English is proud to congratulate and support Ally Louks, one of our PhD students, who passed her viva last week with no corrections. Her thesis ‘Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose’ studies how literature registers the importance of olfactory discourse – the language of smell and the […]

Professor Bale was made an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London, on 4 December 2024. Link to further information: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/fellows      

Clair Wills received the 2024 WHSmith Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award for ‘Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets’ at the awards ceremony which took place in Dublin on 27 November. First awarded in 2006, the An Post Irish Book Awards celebrate and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible. Link to […]

The title of Professor Bale’s lecture is ‘The Siege of Rhodes (1480) and late medieval news’. Link to further information: https://cas.au.dk/en/cvm/events/view/artikel/anthony-bale-the-siege-of-rhodes-1480-and-la-te-medieval-news Professor Bale will also be giving a student masterclass on medieval gender and a work-in-progress seminar on medieval witchcraft.  

While angels have played a decisive role in all the world’s major religions and continue to loom large in the popular religious and creative imagination, modern theology has tended to ignore or trivialize them. The comparatively few scholarly works on angels over the last century have typically interpreted them as mere symbols and metaphors: they […]