Professor Sarah Dillon contributes expert insight to the BBC ’s Changing Climates series which runs Monday 21st April to Friday 25th April on Radio 4 Extra. Presented by the meteorologist John Hammond, with contributions by another Cambridge academic – Professor Mike Hulme in Geography – the series explores how science fiction has long served as […]
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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/
Continue ReadingProf. 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Medieval Ideas Creative Lab at the Faculty of English has a website
The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab now has an embryonic website where future events will sit: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/micl/ The Lab is a new initiative to explore how the creative arts and creative industries might engage with medieval sources. The Principal Investigator on this project is Professor Anthony Bale.
Continue ReadingJade 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 […]
Continue ReadingTHIS 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Faculty of English is delighted to announce that Dr Chris Tilmouth has been awarded a 2025 Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching
The Faculty of English is delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Chris Tilmouth has been awarded one of the 2025 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching. You can find out more about this year’s winners and the history of the prize here: https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/pilkington-prize/2025
Continue ReadingDr 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 […]
Continue ReadingRead a review of two new books by members of the English faculty, Edward Wilson-Lee and Michael D. Hurley, in the latest issue of @TheCriticMag
Read a review of two new books by members of the English faculty, Edward Wilson-Lee and Michael D. Hurley, in the latest issue of @TheCriticMag here.
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