On Monday 16th December, Dr Sarah Dillon and postdoctoral researcher Dr Olivia Belton will participate in UNESCO’s first Global Literacy Design Forum at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The Forum will bring the general public together with leading Futures Literacy practitioners, designers, facilitators, teachers and researchers. The Forum has two primary objectives. One is to prepare […]

Dr Michael Hurley, Faculty of English and St Catharine’s College, has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, for Trinity Term 2021. https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/all-souls-college-oxford

MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole will read from his work and talk about the hybrid Hebrew poetry of Muslim Spain and its relevance for readers and writers today. Moving between eleventh-century Iberia and today’s Middle East and America, between translations and his own original English poems, Cole will take us into the heart of […]

On 15 November John Kerrigan will give a talk at Stanford University entitled ‘Cambridge and the Slave Trade’. Link to Stanford English News & Events

Dr Sarah Kennedy is this year’s recipient of the John Serio Award, for her essay, “‘We reason of these things with a later reason’: Plain Sense and the Poetics of Relief in Eliot and Stevens”. The prize is awarded by a committee from the Board of The Wallace Stevens Journal, and recognises the best essay […]

Join James Riley as he presents his new book, The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties at this special event hosted by Heffers, Cambridge. James will be discussing and reading from the book, there’ll be a Q+A as well as a signing session. Copies of the book will be […]

Ross Wilson will be running a five-week reading group for students at HMP Whitemoor, near March, starting on Monday, 28th October. The group will discuss Charlotte Brontë’s last (and greatest) novel, Villette, and is conducted under the auspices of the ‘Learning Together’ initiative, based at the Institute of Criminology. Link to ‘Learning Together’ website .

Bonnie Lander Johnson gives a lecture on Shakespeare’s flowers at the Shake festival in Suffolk. This three day festival organised by Jenny Hall includes lectures and workshops with Lucy Bailey, Dame Harriet Walter and Ian Kerr http://newcut.org/events/entry/9194

Anna-Maria Hartmann, Lecturer and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, has been awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize 2019 for the best book on early modern literature published in the previous year for her monograph English Mythography in its European Context 1500-1650 (OUP). The prize, named in honour of Roland H. Bainton, who was Titus Street […]