G.K. Chesterton Conference: The Polymath The inaugural Notre Dame London Chesterton Conference focuses on G.K. Chesterton as a man with an array of interests and gifts, and celebrates the dedication of the newly opened G.K. Chesterton Collection housed at the Notre Dame London Global Gateway. Chesterton was a genuine polymath who wrote prolifically on philosophy, […]

To find out more about the collection: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800172142 Dr Gorji has written on her new collection for the Carcanet blog:  https://carcanetblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/scale-mina-gorji.html

Dr Stephen Turton and Prof Charlotte Brewer (Oxford) have launched MurrayScriptorium.org, an open-access edition of the correspondence of James Augustus Henry Murray (1837–1915), first chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. The edition is in its pilot phase and currently holds transcriptions of 88 letters that showcase the range of Murray’s correspondents: authors who explained […]

Pay us a visit at the West Road end of the Sidgwick Site.   As well as chatting to staff on the information stand, you might like to sign up for a tour of the English Faculty Library, scheduled to take place at 11.30am and 2.30pm. If you aren’t able to visit in person, there […]

Dr May Hawas’s Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public has been awarded the Balakian Prize 2022. According to the jury, “Hawas’s book is a critical work of remarkable originality that is consistently analytical and argumentative in its presentation of ideas, with a strong comparative perspective”. Link to announcement about the prize. Link to […]

Link to Guardian feature: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/24/he-died-in-his-30s-living-the-life-he-had-dreamed-of-artist-eric-ravilious  

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The 2022 John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Poetry Prize was won by Gabriel Rolfe (Magdalene College) for the poem Nullarbor. The 2022 ‘Other’ Prize for Drama was won by Maddie Lynes (St Catharine’s College) for the play Her Very Many Faces, whilst Eyoel Abebaw-Mesfin (Fitzwilliam College) was commended as the runner-up for the play My […]

Mark Wormald took part in a joint reading with David Profumo, author of the fishing memoir The Lightning Thread,  in Stockbridge on Friday 17 June. Mark read from his new book The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes, which was published by Bloomsbury on 28 April. Link to further information about the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-profumo-and-mark-wormald-book-reading-and-signing-tickets-344823144307

Conor McKee’s article in Renaissance Studies considers the use of metaphor in the work of sixteenth-century poet and martyr Robert Southwell. He argues that a number of Southwell’s metaphors have a surprisingly literal quality whereby their vehicles are given greater prominence than their tenors. For instance, looking at Southwell’s presentation of the figurative ‘fires of […]