The programme includes: Talks about Byron, by academics and writers including Bernard Beatty, Drummond Bone, Clare Bucknell, Will Bowers, Christine Kenyon Jones, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Seamus Perry, Diego Saglia, Dan Sperrin, Jane Stabler, Fiona Stafford, A.E. Stallings, Andrew Stauffer, Corin Throsby, Clara Tuite, Ross Wilson. A concert featuring settings of Byron’s poems by Schumann, Wolf and […]

Amy Morris publishes ‘Edward Taylor and Assemblage Art’, an essay interpreting the writings of a colonial American poet with the help of twentieth-century sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson and Joseph Cornell. Published in The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture and Art ed. Matthew Pethers and Daniel Couch (Bucknell University Press), […]

The Faculty of English is delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Fiona Green has been awarded one of the 2024 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching. You can find out more about this year’s winners and the history of the prize here: https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/pilkington-prize/2024 Raphael Lyne, Chair of the Faculty of English, said ‘Fiona is […]

The exhibition on Richard III, a result of a University-funded collaboration between Dr Jitka Štollová and Tiina Burton and Charlotte Percival, lecturers and artists from the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts, opens today at the West Hub. The exhibition blends modern and traditional media as it offers an insight into Richard’s mind in […]

Queer & Trans Philologies Friday 22 March-Saturday 23 March, 9.30am–5.30pm, Online Livestream Convenor Stephen Matthew Turton (English, University of Cambridge) Co-convenors François·e Charmaille (English and MMLL (French), University of Cambridge) Alexandra Zhirnova (ASNC, University of Cambridge) Orsolya Petocz, MMLL (Italian, University of Cambridge) For further information and to book: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39800/

“Stonebreakers” Screening Award-winning 2022 documentary on conflicts over monuments and historical representation in the USA Thursday, March 14 | 5pm | Newnham College, (C. Beerbower Room) Followed by Q & A with the filmmakers Valerio Ciriaci, Isaak Liptzin, and discussants Prof Jenny Mander, Dr Amy Morris, and Saleyha Ahsan.

As part of commemorative events to mark 200 years since the death of Trinity’s most celebrated poet, Trinity College is offering up to three prizes worth £250 each for writing in verse or prose inspired or provoked by Byron. The competition is open to all current Cambridge undergraduate and postgraduate students. Poems must not be […]

Francesca Gardner’s short film, based on her research into light, commonplacing, and the literary essay, will be shown for the first time at the launch of this year’s Cambridge Festival at West Hub on 13th March. The film, titled ‘Making Light of Essays | Making Essays of Light’, was made in collaboration with creative professional […]

Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston is interviewed for an episode of Archive on 4 marking the 60th anniversary of the death of the Irish playwright, creative non-fiction writer, and bon viveur, Brendan Behan. It will air on the 16th of March at 8pm on Radio 4, and will be available online afterwards via this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xfd0

Dr Jennifer Wallace speaks about Byron and Greece alongside Professors Roderick Beaton, David Ricks and Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri at a special event in London to commemorate the bicentenary of the poet’s death at Missolonghi. Two hundred years on from his death in Greece on 19 April 1824, Byron remains one of the most important […]