Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has recently published an article in BMJ Medical Humanities that explores the roles animals play within the technologies for and stories about human reproduction. The essay, co-written with Georgia Walton (Lancaster University), ‘Reproductive Technology’s Animal Unconscious: Multispecies Motherhood and Humanimal Horror’, is available to read online here.

The talk drew on Dr Gorji’s practice as a poet and literary critic to explore the affordances of lyric to move between multiple scales of perception, experience, and time. Link to further information about the talk: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/mina-gorji/

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The Cambridge Group for Irish Studies will welcome in-person and remotely the editors of the forthcoming Poems of Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber, 2025), on Tuesday 28th October at 5pm in the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Bernard O’Donoghue, Rosie Lavan and Matthew Hollis will be in conversation with Dr Mark Wormald (Pembroke College) about […]

Prof. Alex Houen has co-written with Prof. Geoff Gilbert (American University of Paris) a poem-novel entitled See You Through (Broken Sleep Books).  Structured around a shifting dialogue of voices, the book explores intimacy, war, illness, and facial recognition technology.  Alex and Geoff will launch the book at a reading on Thurs 23rd October, 7pm, in the […]

Of Influence has been published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice, and is edited by Lewis Roberts, Jacob Ridley (Oxford), and Roddy Howland Jackson (Oxford). Born of an international conference held in Oxford in 2023, 50 years after Harold Bloom published The Anxiety of Influence, these essays ask what Bloom can do […]

Published in October 1950, Alan Turing’s seminal paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ proposed a test to determine whether machines could think and speculated whether they might eventually compete with humans in all intellectual fields. But it is a very strange piece of writing indeed, one that has long intrigued and puzzled readers in equal measure. […]

Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson will speak at the Cambridge Literary Festival about her new book, Vanishing Landscapes, on Saturday 22 November at 2pm. Link to further information and to book tickets: https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/bonnie-lander-johnson-vanishing-landscapes/

The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature by offering a definitive theory of the constellational novel.  A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form.  Beginning with Marcel Proust, the argument focuses on novels published over roughly the last two decades […]

Anthony Bale’s book, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, will be published in Spanish as Guía de Viajes por la Edad Media: El mundo visto por los viajeros medievales (Madrid: Ático de los Libros) on 22 September 2025.  A programme of talks and signings will also take place in that week in Barcelona and […]