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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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  

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.

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 […]