The conference, organized by the European Alliance of Academies, in collaboration with the Royal Society of Literature, takes place at Homerton College, Cambridge, on 26-27 August 2023. Link to further information about the conference: https://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-08/eaoa_homerton-college_2023_booklet.pdf

Staying at Gonville & Caius College for the week the students had a packed programme of lectures, classes and other activities designed to give them a taste of the life of an English undergrad. Students also completed an individual project; choosing topics from Keats to Plath, Virginia Woolf to Taylor Swift, Vile Bodies to The […]

Join the artist Emii Alrai and curator E.K. Myerson to discuss their collaboration and the themes of the current exhibition Anchorless Bodies: Navigating Arabic in Medieval Manuscripts. Friday 25 August, 6pm Wilkins Room, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Expect discussion of ancient rot, museum practices, excavation, disintegration and the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony. The talk […]

Lewis Roberts, supervisor and PhD candidate in the department, gives the guest lecture at Monasterevin Hopkins Festival on Saturday 29th July. The festival celebrates Gerard Manley Hopkins and his time spent in Dublin and Monasterevin, and is timed to coincide with his birthday. Lewis, who is taking up the Procter Fellowship at Princeton University from […]

Eva Dema has been awarded the David Paroissien Prize by the Dickens Society for her article ”’Wind, Wind, Wind, Always Winding Am I’: Dickens’s Metafictional Clockwork”. The prize is awarded each year to the best peer-reviewed essay on Dickens published in a journal or edited collection. You can find the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgab094.

Queen Camilla is Patron of First Story, a charity Dr Lander Johnson partners with to bring 400 secondary school students to Cambridge for an annual festival of writing. You can read more about this year’s festival here: https://firststory.org.uk/festival/ The event took place at Clarence House, to celebrate the 15th birthday of First Story. Guests had lunch and […]

Taking its title from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, the podcast follows hosts Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) and renowned ‘dandy’ drag king Holly James Johnston, as they tour the south-east coast of England from Margate to Hastings. Along the way, they visit the homes of iconic figures such as Derek Jarman, Vita Sackville-West, and Henry […]

Nicolette Zeeman has been awarded the 2019-20 Anne Middleton Book Prize of the International Piers Plowman Society, for her Arts of Disruption. Allegory and Piers Plowman (Oxford University Press, 2020). See: https://piersplowman.org/2019-2020-anne-middleton-book-prize/

Garden Sanctuaries Ahead of her exhibition on garden sanctuaries to be held at the Garden Museum in 2024, Claudia Tobin has been invited to speak at the 2023 Garden Museum Literary Festival held at Parham House, West Sussex. The festival is Britain’s only travelling Literary Festival, with previous hosts including Chatsworth House (2022), Helmingham Hall (2021), […]