ALL MY SONS BY ARTHUR MILLER @ ROBINSON AUDITORIUM, 17th-20th NOVEMBER, 19:30 Every man has a star… the star of one’s honesty. A tree has blown down in the night. It’s Larry Keller tree; the tree that his mother planted in his memory after he disappeared three years ago. It’s 1946: the War is over, but […]
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Emma Gomis coedits ‘New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive’
The collection of lectures, transcribed from the audio archives of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, edited by Emma Gomis and Anne Waldman, is published by Nightboat Books. The official release date for the publication is 8 November. The book can be preordered here: https://nightboat.org/book/new-weathers/ The editors will be doing a virtual launch with City Lights […]
Continue ReadingDr Diarmuid Hester goes On the Road with Penguin Classics podcast
Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) was a special guest on a recent episode of On the Road with Penguin Classics podcast. He joined the charming host Henry Elliot for a walk around Cambridge and a meander through E.M. Forster’s classic novel Maurice. Dr Hester’s new book Nothing Ever Just Disappears, a history of LGBTQ culture through […]
Continue ReadingDr Harry R. McCarthy talks about his new book ‘Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre’, Wednesday 23 November
What was life like for early modern boy actors, and what was it like to write for them? Join the Intellectual Forum and Jesus College Fellow Dr Harry R. McCarthy to hear about his new book, Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre. Date and time: Wednesday 23 November, 5pm-7.30pm […]
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe, College Librarian, represented Magdalene College at the RIBA Stirling Prize 2022 Ceremony on 13 October
At the ceremony, Magdalene College’s new library was named the UK’s best new building, winning the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture. As College Librarian, and a Director of Magdalene College’s Design and Build company, Dr Waithe showed round the awards judges and wrote the client statement for the RIBA Stirling Prize winning New Library. […]
Continue ReadingProf. Michael D. Hurley lectures at the G. K. Chesterton Inaugural Conference, Notre Dame London Global Gateway, 28th Oct. 2022
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, […]
Continue ReadingMina Gorji publishes a new collection of poetry, ‘Scale’, with Carcanet Press on 28 July
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
Continue ReadingDr Stephen Turton and Professor Charlotte Brewer (Oxford) launch Murray Scriptorium
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 […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re coming to the @Cambridge_Uni Open Days on Thursday and Friday, the Faculty of English will be open 10am-4pm
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 […]
Continue ReadingDr May Hawas wins the Balakian Prize for ‘Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public’, June 2022
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 […]
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