Timothy Glover has curated an exhibition of medieval manuscripts and early modern books at the Parker Library. This exhibition explores the practical kinds of books priests used to educate ordinary people, including manuscripts that teach through diagrams, flowcharts, unusual page layouts, and pictures. Tours take place on Tuesday afternoons in July (see here for availability), and […]
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Dr May Hawas publishes ‘Teaching Politically: Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy’, Fordham University Press, July 2025
Co-edited with Professor Bruce Robbins, Teaching Politically (Fordham University Press) brings together a global group of academics, activists, public intellectuals, poets, and novelists to examine the way politics manifest pedagogically, and how a commitment to educating manifests politically, in and beyond the classroom. At the heart of the discussion is how political and professional paradigms […]
Continue Reading2025 Derek Brewer Prize Awarded to François·e Charmaille
The journal Arthurian Literature awards the Derek Brewer Prize for a scholarly paper on an Arthurian topic. This year’s prize has been awarded to Dr François·e Charmaille for their essay “Transgender Grammar in the Tale of Grisandole.” The essay will be published in the 2026 issue of Arthurian Literature.
Continue ReadingAmy Morris gives a keynote lecture at the University of East Anglia
Amy Morris will be giving a keynote lecture entitled ‘Putting it all Together: Early American Literature and Modern Art’ at the University of East Anglia’s ‘In The Making’, a summer celebration of critical and creative work by PhD students in UEA’s Literature, Drama and Creative Writing programme.
Continue ReadingProfessor Subha Mukherji Gives a Keynote Lecture at the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference 2025
Professor Subha Mukherji gives a keynote speech on ‘Knowing Encounters: towards an intermedial poetics in early modern culture’ at the Society for Renaissance Studies 11th Biennial Conference in Bristol, Wednesday 2 July-Saturday 5 July.
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace Gives a Keynote Lecture at an International Conference in Romania
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.
Continue ReadingJuliette 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 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
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