Sarah Hall, prize-winning novelist and short story writer, has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University for the third time for ‘Sudden Traveller’. She won the award in 2013 for ‘Mrs Fox’ and was shortlisted for the first time in 2010 for ‘Butcher’s Perfume’. Both stories appeared in her debut […]
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Dr Michael D Hurley speaks at 19th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2018
Dr Michael D Hurley speaks at The 19th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, held this year at Uppsala University and Stockholm School of Theology, in Sweden, 28-30 September, 2018. His paper is entitled, ‘Attunement to Truth in Literature’. http://isrlc2018.se/
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Read and Dr Claudia Tobin contribute to ‘Sorted!’, a brand new festival of talks at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 25-27 September 2018
‘Sorted!’, a brand new festival launched by Cambridge University Botanic Garden to celebrate the opening of the Rising Path, brings together artists and art historians, botanic garden experts, scientists, historians, curators, horticulturalists, researchers and writers in order to explore how we sort and organise the natural world. Each day of the Festival is themed to […]
Continue ReadingDr Amy Morris discusses homelessness on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’, 12 September 2018
On Wednesday 12 September, Dr Amy Morris joins Laurie Taylor and other guests to discuss homelessness on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh566s
Continue ReadingDr Edward Allen gives Keynote Lecture at ‘Symposium of Sound’, Durham University, September 2018
Dr Edward Allen gives a keynote lecture at the ‘Symposium of Sound’ in Durham (3-4 September 2018). His lecture is entitled ‘Catching that Jingling Feeling’. https://symposiumofsound.wordpress.com/conference-programme/ An interview with Dr Edward Allen, in which he explains how he first become interested in sound studies, is available here: https://symposiumofsound.wordpress.com/blog/
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon on Literary Criticism at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, part of the BBC Student Critics’ Awards with First Story and Cambridge University
On Thursday 16th August, Dr Sarah Dillon joined Mariella Frostrup and other guests for a special edition of BBC Radio 4’s Open Book on literary criticism at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The event was part of the Faculty’s participation in the BBC National Student Critics’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University, details of […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael Hurley gives pre-show talk for ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain’, Cambridge Arts Theatre, 9 July 2018
On Monday 9 July, Dr Michael Hurley gave the pre-show talk at The Cambridge Arts Theatre, before the first performance of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain, a play by Simon Reade, starring Robert Powell and Liza Goddard.
Continue ReadingBooking open: ‘Reading Walter de la Mare, 1873-1956: “a voice which has no fellow”’ , 20-21 September 2018
You are warmly invited to attend the first international conference on Walter de la Mare’s works. The programme includes an exciting line-up of talks, with plenty of opportunity for discussion. There will also be a pop-up exhibition by Professor Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (Pennsylvania State University) in collaboration with Carolina Rabei, illustrator of Faber and Faber’s children’s […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita wins a Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award, July 2018
The Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards were set up to recognise and reward those who undertake quality engagement with research. Each winner receives a £1000 personal prize and a trophy. Seita produced a collaborative multi-media creative project that combined experimental performances, lecture performances, poetry, publications, and installations; both emerging from and feeding back into […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate organises summer courses for Literature Cambridge, July 2018
Trudi Tate has organised two summer courses for Literature Cambridge. Virginia Woolf and Politics was held at Wolfson College, 1-6 July, and Women Writers: Emily Bronte to Elizabeth Bowen took place at Homerton College, 8-13 July. There were lectures, seminars, supervisions, and excursions to places of interest in Cambridge. Enthusiastic students aged from 17 to […]
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