Dr Rebecca Anne Barr publishes ‘Revisiting Richardson’, Bucknell University Press, April 2025

Dr Rebecca Anne Barr has just published Revisiting Richardson (Bucknell University Press). Co-edited with Prof. Bonnie Latimer (University of Southampton), this collection of essays updates critical debate on the writings of Samuel Richardson and reconsiders his literary legacies. For more information see https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/revisiting-richardson/9781684485659/

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Prof. Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam has been made an International Visiting Fellow at Australian Catholic University @ACUmedia

Prof. Hurley will join Australian Catholic University (ACU) at its North Sydney campus in September, contributing to teaching across the curriculum of its Western Civilisation Program, delivering the Aletheia Lecture, and conducting a Masterclass at the Ramsay Centre. He will also give a keynote address to the ACU community. Professor Peter Anstey, Director of the […]

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Jade Cuttle presents her current research on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Essay’

Jade Cuttle (University of Cambridge PhD student and BBC New Generation Thinker) has turned her current English Literature research into a BBC Radio 3 Essay titled ‘Digging for Words’.  ‘The Essay’, written and presented by Jade, airs on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 9.45pm or is available online now on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298fx ‘Digging for […]

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THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED: Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory Event: ‘Why Medieval Women’s Lives Are Still Relevant’, Thursday 8 May

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED.  Details will be circulated when the new time for this event is confirmed Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory: Thursday 8 May 2025, 5.30pm Seminar room GR.04, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge ‘Why Medieval Women’s Lives Are Still Relevant’ Diane Watt (Professor of English Literature, University of Surrey) and Pragya Agarwal (Royal Literary Fund […]

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Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson discusses her new book ‘Vanishing Landscapes’ at Heffers, Cambridge on 10 April

Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson will be discussing her new book Vanishing Landscapes at Heffers, Cambridge on April 10th 6-7pm. Link to further information about the event and to get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanishing-landscapes-bonnie-lander-johnson-at-heffers-bookshop-tickets-1291155935159 Vanishing Landscapes combines nature writing and social history to tell the story of how we became modern people, alienated from the landscape. The book […]

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