The conference, Tragic Forms Across Europe and Beyond, takes place from 2-3 July 2025 at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. Dr Wallace gives her Keynote Lecture, entitled ‘Tragic Forms for Global Warming: Hamartia in the Anthropocene’, on Wednesday 2 July.
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Juliette Bretan publishes an article in the ‘T.S. Eliot Studies Annual’
The title of the article is Eliot’s “Polish plains” and it is part of ‘The Eliot We Need’ Special Forum of The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual. Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, researching depictions of Poland and East Central Europe in twentieth-century anglophone and Polish literature.
Continue ReadingTeaching Associate in Literary Criticism and Theory [Temporary Cover]
Please follow this link for more information about the post of Teaching Associate in Literary Criticism and Theory [Temporary Cover]. The closing date for applications is midnight (BST) on Sunday 29 June 2025.
Continue ReadingProfessor Clare Pettitt gives a Plenary Lecture at the 2025 INCS Conference
Professor Pettitt gives her Plenary Lecture, entitled ‘Speed, Relay and the Digital Empire’, on Thursday 19 June, at ‘Speed and Acceleration‘, the 2025 INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies) Conference. INCS takes place in Genoa, Italy, from 18-20 June.
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on the power of language to change the world, and ourselves — broadcast this morning on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day
Link to this morning’s broadcast (30 May 2025): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lfdfyw. You can listen to other episodes to which Prof. Hurley has contributed on: beauty, dogs, silence, gratitude, ancestors, creation, relics, fighting, euthanasia, reality, humour, discrimination, service.
Continue ReadingDr John Colley’s ‘The Coniuracion of Lucius Sergius Catelina: An Early Tudor Translation of Sallust’s “Bellum Catilinae”’ (Early English Text Society/Oxford University Press) scheduled for publication in June 2025
The book is a critical edition of the first ever translation of a Roman history into English, from a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, and is printed here for the first time. Link to further information about the book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-coniuracion-of-lucius-sergius-catelina-9780198976387?cc=gb&lang=en& Link to further information about the Early English Text Society: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~eets/membership.html
Continue ReadingProfessor Ross Wilson writes two blog posts in connection with the recent publication of ‘Percy Shelley in Context’
The first post is ‘Five Questions: Ross Wilson on Percy Shelley in Context‘ on the blog of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS); the second is on ‘Fifteen Eighty Four‘ the blog of Cambridge University Press, featuring current news and commentary from Cambridge authors and staff.
Continue ReadingProf Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam gives a keynote lecture at the CPI Scholars Network Plenary Conference, 16-17 June @BYU
The Christian Poetics Initiative (CPI) is an academic network dedicated to exploring the role of Christian faith in the study and practice of literature. Founded at Yale University, the initiative is now hosted by the Rivendell Center for Theology and the Arts (RCTA). The CPI Scholars Network, a central feature of the initiative, brings together senior, emerging, and early-career scholars […]
Continue ReadingFrancesca Gardner’s Critical Quarterly study ‘Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers’ in the news
‘Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers’, published 17th May in Critical Quarterly, is a new study by Francesca Gardner, a PhD student and Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar at St Catharine’s College. This week media outlets including The Times, The i Paper, the BBC, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, ITV News, and ITV Anglia have featured her […]
Continue ReadingGordon Duff Prize 2025 awarded to Ruth Abbott
The Gordon Duff Prize is awarded annually for an essay on a subject relating to the science or arts of books and manuscripts. This year’s prize has been awarded to Ruth Abbott for her essay ‘Transcribers of the Mind: Copying Historical Manuscripts in the British Museum Reading Room, 1759-1795’, which was also recently published in Library […]
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