Dr Edward Allen (Christ’s College and Faculty of English) has had his first monograph published by Cambridge University Press

Modernist Invention: Media Technology and American Poetry attends to the work of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Langston Hughes, and to scenes of communication not often considered in relation to lyric poetics: telegraph posts, snowed-in farmhouses, sickbeds, recording booths, and antebellum watering holes, to name a few. For further information, click here: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/american-literature/modernist-invention-media-technology-and-american-poetry?format=HB

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Dr Oliver Morgan is joint winner of the Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2020

The award is for Dr Morgan’s first book, Turn-taking in Shakespeare, published by Oxford University Press in 2019. The judges comments were as follows: “Oliver Morgan’s Turn-taking in Shakespeare provides a galvanising new way of interpreting Renaissance plays. The mechanisms of dialogue – the sequencing of speakers, their interruptions, pauses, and failures to respond – open out new insights into character, dramaturgy, […]

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Professor Clair Wills elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, July 2020

Congratulations to Professor Clair Wills (Faculty of English and Murray Edwards College) who has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her work on 20th-century British and Irish cultural history; contemporary writing; the literature and social history of migration. The full announcement can be read here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british-academy-welcomes-86-new-fellows-across-humanities-and-social-sciences/” —

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‘WRONG: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper’ by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English) is now available from University of Iowa Press.

‘WRONG: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper’ by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English) is now available from University of Iowa Press. https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609386917/wrong Description: Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, Dennis Cooper has been a punk poet, a queercore […]

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Dr Alex da Costa is one of the 2020 Pilkington Prize Winners thanked for their contribution to teaching excellence in a short film published by the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning

The Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning have published a  short film expressing  thanks and congratulations to the 2020 Pilkington Prize Winners. Link to film. Although the Pilkington Prize celebrations can’t go ahead this summer, CCTL hope to welcome this year’s Prize Winners and next year’s to a double celebration in 2021. More information about […]

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Dr Ewan Jones writes about teaching during the pandemic, as part of the ‘Critical Inquiry’ series ‘Posts from the Pandemic’, June 2020

Dr Ewan Jones publishes a piece on teaching during the pandemic, as part of Critical Inquiry‘s ongoing series of posts on the pandemic. Link to ‘How to Learn Together, Apart‘. Since early March, Critical Inquiry has been publishing a series of short pieces about the global outbreak of the coronavirus. ‘Posts from the Pandemic’ features […]

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