Dr Laura Davies and Dr Emma Salgard Cunha launched their new website and resource ‘A Good Death?’ today. Their project looks to the literature of the past to encourage new reflections on how individuals, including those closely affected by death and dying, can find languages and spaces to explore the idea of dying well, and […]

Scholars believe that they have identified John Milton’s copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare. This copy of the first large-format (folio) edition of Shakespeare’s plays, published in 1623, has been housed in the Free Library of Philadelphia since 1944, when it was donated to the library by the Widener family. It has been known […]

‘Bright Nights: Empire’ is an evening of discussions, sensory experiments, workshops, performances and demos to explore the legacy of Queen Victoria and Empire on the 200th anniversary of her birth year. Sarah Jilani speaks on how her field was shaped by the British Empire, and questions the makings of Englishness through literature. Link to event […]

This interdisciplinary conference on Rorty and his work is taking place on 12-13 September, at CRASSH. It features talks on, amongst other topics, Rorty’s interpretations; Rorty, Latour, criticism and method; Rorty’s storytelling; and on self-creation and human error. Link to website.  

Dr Jennifer Wallace gives the pre-Proms talk (with the poet Clare Pollard)  on Wednesday 7 August .  The title of the talk is ‘The power of tragic tales’ and it will be broadcast on Radio 3, during the interval of the live broadcast of Prom 26. Link to the Proms website.

The courses were attended by people from all over the world, with lectures, seminars, supervisions, talks, and visits to places of literary interest around Cambridge. Teachers included current and past Faculty members Oliver Goldstein, Alison Hennegan, Karina Jakubowicz, Isobel Maddison, Suzanne Raitt, Corinna Russell, Trudi Tate, Clare Walker Gore, and Kabe Wilson. Next year’s summer […]

Professor James Raven has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Link to the British Academy website.    

Literary Magazines and Communities: From the Anti-Colonial to the Avant-Garde A conversation between Hana Morgenstern and Sophie Seita to celebrate the launch of Sophie Seita’s Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital (Stanford University Press, 2019). Followed by a drinks reception. Sophie Seita is an artist and academic whose practice spans text- and […]

A ‘Crossroads of Knowledge’ event at Kettle’s Yard and Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. Programme and further details for booking to be announced shortly. Link to Crossroads of Knowledge website.

Dr Jennifer Wallace was the subject of an interview feature in ‘Kathimerini’,  the main Greek newspaper, as part of their regular series ‘Lunch with Kathimerini’. Link to the article. An English translation of this interview has also been published by ‘Kathimerini’ and it has been syndicated in the ‘New York Times International Edition’. Link to […]