Bhanu Kapil, the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow, has been awarded a 2020 Cholmondeley Award by the UK Society of Authors. Rod Mengham has been awarded a 2020 Cholmondeley Award by the UK Society of Authors. These awards are given to poets for their general body of work and contribution to poetry. According to oxfordreference.com, […]

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 […]

Christopher Tilmouth will be a contributor to the final episode of Radio 4’s series on Robert Burton’s ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ today at 1.45pm. Link to ‘The New Anatomy of Melancholy’.

The portfolio prize is awarded to the participant in each cohort scoring the highest grade in their teaching portfolio. The Faculty warmly congratulates Lisa.

As university students head into the summer term, lecturer Louise Joy shares the choices that students must make around their education in a piece for Times Higher Education. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/blogs/choices-facing-students-they-head-summer-term#survey-answer  

Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) has been named a New Generation Thinker by a joint committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC. Defined as an academic who ‘brings the best of university research and scholarly ideas to a broad audience through the media and public engagement’, New Generation […]

Published by Contraband Books, Territories is a collection of texts and images based on a series of site-specific expanded cinema performances staged between 2015 and 2018 by Yvonne Salmon and James Riley. Each of the texts deal with ‘occulted’ or otherwise obscured spaces. As Salmon and Riley put it in their introduction: “Working on the […]

Dr Kasia Boddy’s new book ‘Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Flowers and People’ is published by Yale University Press on 28 April 2020. https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300243338 “Blooming Flowers is a gorgeously lush evocation of twelve different flowers, each one steeped in its own stories, cultural associations and botanical wonder. It is not just a sunny celebration of […]

Strange Attractor Press have recently published Of Mud & Flame a sourcebook of material relating to David Rudkin and Alan Clarke’s legendary television film Penda’s Fen (1974). The volume is edited by Matthew Harle and James Machin and features an essay by Yvonne Salmon (Cambridge), director of The Alchemical Landscape project on ‘Penda’s Fen and […]

On Friday 28 February, Dr Mina Gorji joined host Ian McMillan, fellow poets John McAuliffe, Igor Klikovac, André Naffis-Sahely, and songwriter Ana Silvera to explore the language of leaving, resettling and exile.  The programme is available to listen to again here.