The Poetry Leap: An evening of poetry and translation Old Divinity School, St John’s College Cambridge, CB2 1TP 18:00, Saturday 29th February 2020. Please join us on Leap Saturday, 29th February, from 6pm to hear readings from poets Juana Adcock, Mina Gorji and Bhanu Kapil, followed by a wine reception. From 8pm there will be […]

Dr Wallace gives a talk entitled ‘Digging Up Milton: Keats, Milton and London 1790-1818′, at Keats House, Hampstead, on Thursday 30 January. Link to further information about the talk

Dr Subha Mukherji participated in the Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies Racial Diversity Forum on Saturday 25th January, at the Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, London.

‘Baby, I am the garbage.’— James Schuyler Queer trash in a profusion of permutations, inhering in trash or adhering to queerness, in any case soiled and impure, gorgeously stained, promiscuous, perhaps, certainly fabulous, certainly sustainable. An evening of queer trash-themed performances by: Timberlina (Mother’s Ruin) Owen G Parry (Fan Riot) Roy Claire Potter (Shady Dealings […]

The Old Library at Magdalene College is open on Thursday 6th February 2020 from 11am to 1pm. This is a chance to see the medieval building, with its collection of books dating back to the fifteenth century. There will be a special display, curated by M E J Hughes, on twentieth-century first editions in English […]

Dr Jarrett’s book, Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama, has just been published with Palgrave Macmillan, in their series of books on Literature, Science and Medicine. It is the first book to examine the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of early modern drama. It examines how the […]

Dr Mina Gorji contributes to ‘John Clare’s Scraping’,  first broadcast on BBC Sounds on Sunday 12 January 2020.  For the 200th anniversary of John Clare’s poems, this programme takes a look at the music and songs he gathered. For more information and to listen to the programme go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d6sh  

Jennifer Wallace speaks on the keynote Presidential Panel at the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) convention in Seattle on Friday 10th January, on the subject of “Being Human”. https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/8184

This exhibition celebrates the life and work of the Jerusalem-born artist Kamal Boullata (1942—2019), and is curated by Claudia Tobin and the artist’s wife, Lily Farhoud. It centres on Boullata’s handmade artist’s books and silk screen prints, which explore the interplay between poetry and image, and convergences of colour and architecture. At the centre of […]