Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a new article on Tsitsi Dangarembga in Interventions, the international journal of postcolonial studies. The essay explores how Dangarembga’s documentary film, Elephant People, depicts community-based wildlife conservation initiatives in southern Africa. Read the essay here.
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Professor Alex Houen publishes an essay in C21’s Roundtable Review of Timothy Bewes’s ‘Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age’
Professor Alex Houen has published an essay in C21: Journal of 21st-Century Writing. The title of the essay is ‘Free Indirect Thought Felt and Lived’ and it is one of multiple collated responses to Timothy Bewes’s book, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022). Link to journal and essay: https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/25944/
Continue ReadingDr Helen Charman appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Free Thinking’ discussing labour, productivity and reproduction
Dr Helen Charman appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking, discussing labour, productivity and reproduction. Broadcast on Friday 30 January 2026, you can listen to the programme here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qh2x
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives a Distinguished Visiting Lecture at the University of Hong Kong, February 2026
Professor Anthony Bale will talk on ‘Conflict, Novelty and Print: The Birth of News Writing in the West’ on Thursday 5 February as part of the University of Hong Kong’s Distinguished Lecture Series, 2025-26. During this visit to the University of Hong Kong’s School of English, Professor Bale will also lead a Workshop on ‘The […]
Continue ReadingStudying English at Cambridge: in-person lectures and an information session for prospective students, Saturday 14 February
Studying English at Cambridge: in-person lectures designed to give prospective students an insight into our English Literature course as well as an information session. The Faculty of English is holding an in-person study morning on Saturday 14th February 2026. The event is aimed at A Level, IB or Scottish Higher English Literature students who may be considering studying English […]
Continue ReadingTimothy Glover’s manuscript discovery featured in the Telegraph
Timothy Glover published a journal article in Mediaeval Studies, demonstrating that a manuscript in Shrewsbury School contains the only surviving original version of Richard Rolle’s Emendatio vitae: i.e. the most popular work by the most disseminated late-medieval English writer. All other 120 surviving copies and all editions in print are now shown to be an abridgement […]
Continue ReadingIn December, Professor Bale gave invited lectures at the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies Seminar and the University of Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies
Professor Anthony Bale gave an invited lecture at the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies Seminar on 2 December 2025. On 4 December he gave an invited lecture, ‘Witchcraft in the Fourteenth Century: Texts, Contexts and Challenges’, at the University of Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies.
Continue ReadingJust a few tickets left for ‘Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages today and tomorrow’, 15-16 January
On Thursday 15th-Friday 16th January, the Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory will be hosting a symposium on Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages today and tomorrow. Confirmed speakers include Anthony Bale, Elizabeth Boyle, Kristen Haas Curtis, Isabel Davis, Irina Dumitrescu, Amy Jeffs, Laura Varnam, Stacie Vos, James Wade. All are welcome but spaces are strictly […]
Continue ReadingTo celebrate Melvyn Bragg’s 27 years of ‘In Our Time’, five well-known fans chose their favourite episodes, and Professor Anthony Bale features in one!
Author & columnist Caitlin Moran chose the episode on English medieval mystic Margery Kempe. Link to listen to the episode: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b… This ‘In Our Time’ episode was first broadcast in June 2016.
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