Louise Joy and Jessica Lim publish Women’s Literary Education, 1690–1850 (Edinburgh University Press), an edited volume containing essays by English faculty colleagues including Jennifer Wallace, Rebecca Anne Barr and Jonathan Padley. The book brings together leading critical voices from a range of disciplines to examine the complex and significant ways in which female literary artists […]
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Conor McKee asks whether the ‘Tree of Charity’ is the right name for a celebrated passage from Piers Plowman in ‘The Yearbook of Langland Studies’
In passus B.XVI, the narrator of Piers Plowman is shown an allegorical tree to teach him what ‘charite is to mene’, yet despite the ‘Tree of Charity’ label which follows this passage in critical literature, in the B-text Langland never actually calls the tree itself ‘charity’ but rather ‘patience’. Conor McKee’s article looks at the […]
Continue ReadingLaunch of ‘Migrant Ecologies’, a collaborative project between Cambridge University and Ashoka University
Prof. Subha Mukherji launches the collaborative project, Migrant Ecologies, with Martin Crowley (MML, Cambridge), Jonathan Gil Harris (Ashoka University) and Sumana Roy (Ashoka University), at Ashoka University, Delhi (India), from the 20th of March to the 4th of April. She gives a talk on ‘Migrant Forms’ at the opening symposium, ‘Migrant Ecologies’. This project is supported […]
Continue ReadingDr Mina Gorji speaks about wildness at StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, 9-12 March 2023
‘WILD: forms of resistance’, StAnza 2023, takes place from 9-12 March, in St Andrews, live and online. Dr Gorji speaks about wildness on Friday 10 March: https://stanzapoetry.org/events/breakfast-at-the-poetry-cafe-wild/ and reads poems on Sunday 12 March: https://byretheatre.com/shows/stanza-23-reading-mina-gorji-and-tim-cresswell/
Continue ReadingProfessor Clair Wills awarded an Honorary Degree from the National University of Ireland
The National University of Ireland honorary degree conferring ceremony took place on Tuesday 7 March 2023. Professor Clair Wills was awarded an Honorary Degree for her exceptional contribution to scholarship in the area of Irish Studies, cultural history, and Irish Literature. Link to the citation by Anne Enright, published in the Irish Times: Clair Wills: […]
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil talks about poetry and the poems she loves on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Poetry Please’
Link to the recording, which is currently available on BBC Sounds: Poetry Please – Bhanu Kapil – BBC Sounds
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil reads from a forthcoming book, Bangor University, 6 March 2023
On March 6, Bhanu Kapil gives a reading from a forthcoming book, Incubation: a space for monsters, for Bangor University. Link to further details about this event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bhanu-kapil-reading-and-discussion-tickets-560340121387
Continue ReadingCambridge Festival, 18th March – 2nd April
The Faculty of English, Cambridge Festival, 18th March – 2nd April
Continue ReadingMark Wormald and Robert Macfarlane talk about Ted Hughes, fishing, poetry and the environment
To mark the publication of online catalogues of a remarkable collection of material by and relating to Ted Hughes at his alma mater Pembroke College Cambridge, Mark Wormald and Robert Macfarlane talk about Mark’s recent book The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes (Bloomsbury, 2022) and about poetry, fishing and Hughes’s passionate advocacy for wild fish […]
Continue ReadingProf. Michael Hurley lectures on ‘How to be Superstitious’
Prof. Michael Hurley lectures on ‘How to be Superstitious’ Lancaster University, 15 March 2023: Professor Hurley will address the Literature & Religion Reading Group. Modern society likes to think it is governed by entirely rational, evidence-based beliefs. But is this true? Or even desirable? Professor Hurley’s lecture explores the nature and counterintuitive value of ‘superstition’, […]
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