American Research Seminar, Faculty of English, Monday 8 October, 4.30pm: ‘What we talk about when we talk about modern archives’, Timothy Young (Beinecke Library at Yale)

Ali Smith – Celebrating the Short Story. Ali Smith and Kasia Boddy read and discuss some favourite stories. English Faculty, 2 October 2018, 5pm

Dihal and Dillon Win Major Grant from Templeton World Charity Foundation

Faculty members Dr Kanta Dihal and Dr Sarah Dillon have been awarded a major research grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to fund the Global AI Narratives project (GAIN) based at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, with Dr Stephen Cave and Dr Beth Singler. The project aims: to understand how different cultures and […]

2018 BBC Short Story Award with Cambridge University

Sarah Hall, prize-winning novelist and short story writer, has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University for the third time for ‘Sudden Traveller’. She won the award in 2013 for ‘Mrs Fox’ and was shortlisted for the first time in 2010 for ‘Butcher’s Perfume’. Both stories appeared in her debut […]

Dr Michael D Hurley speaks at 19th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2018

Dr Michael D Hurley speaks at The 19th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, held this year at Uppsala University and Stockholm School of Theology, in Sweden, 28-30 September, 2018. His paper is entitled, ‘Attunement to Truth in Literature’. http://isrlc2018.se/

Dr Sophie Read and Dr Claudia Tobin contribute to ‘Sorted!’, a brand new festival of talks at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 25-27 September 2018

‘Sorted!’, a brand new festival launched by Cambridge University Botanic Garden to celebrate the opening of the Rising Path, brings together artists and art historians, botanic garden experts, scientists, historians, curators, horticulturalists, researchers and writers in order to explore how we sort and organise the natural world. Each day of the Festival is themed to […]

Dr Amy Morris discusses homelessness on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’, 12 September 2018

On Wednesday 12 September, Dr Amy Morris joins Laurie Taylor and other guests to discuss homelessness on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh566s

Dr Edward Allen gives Keynote Lecture at ‘Symposium of Sound’, Durham University, September 2018

Dr Edward Allen gives a keynote lecture at the ‘Symposium of Sound’ in Durham (3-4 September 2018). His lecture is entitled ‘Catching that Jingling Feeling’. https://symposiumofsound.wordpress.com/conference-programme/ An interview with Dr Edward Allen, in which he explains how he first become interested in sound studies, is available here: https://symposiumofsound.wordpress.com/blog/

Dr Sarah Dillon on Literary Criticism at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, part of the BBC Student Critics’ Awards with First Story and Cambridge University

On Thursday 16th August, Dr Sarah Dillon joined Mariella Frostrup and other guests for a special edition of BBC Radio 4’s Open Book on literary criticism at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The event was part of the Faculty’s participation in the BBC National Student Critics’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University, details of […]

Dr Michael Hurley gives pre-show talk for ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain’, Cambridge Arts Theatre, 9 July 2018

On Monday 9 July, Dr Michael Hurley gave the pre-show talk at The Cambridge Arts Theatre, before the first performance of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain, a play by Simon Reade, starring Robert Powell and Liza Goddard.