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 […]

June 29th, 6.15pm at Arts Picturehouse: Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War. Special Screening followed by Q&A with director Margy Kinmonth and Robert Macfarlane. Co-produced by David Trotter, the film concerns the life and art of the great landscape painter Eric Ravilious, one of only three British war artists to be killed on active service during […]

Subha Mukherji wins a Global Humanities Initiative Award (with Martin Crowley, MML), to start a collaborative teaching and research programme on Migrant Ecologies​ with Ashoka University, New Delhi, September 2022. Link to Global Humanities Mobility Scheme webpage for further information: https://globalhumanities.org/mobility-scheme/

Subha Mukherji gives an invited talk on ‘The poetics of hypokrisis and the ethics of emotion in early modern theatres of law’, at the Annual conference of the Association for Law, Culture and the Humanities, at Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia. Link to conference website: https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/2022-conference/