Payton Danner, a candidate for an MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature, has won a Fulbright scholarship. Fully funded and selected by the U.S. Department of State and Austrian Fulbright Commission, Payton Danner will work in Vienna as a guest researcher at the Institut für Germanistik of the University of Vienna, along with teaching English […]
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Dr Sophie Seita invited to speak at an evening on ‘Multilingual Writing, Multilingual Translation’ at the British Library, 16 April 2018
British Library translator-in-residence Jen Calleja discusses multilingual writing and multilingual translation with Sophie Seita (translator of Uljana Wolf) and Maltese poet and translator Antoine Cassar. Monday 16 April 2018, 19.15-20.30, Knowledge Centre, The British Library https://www.bl.uk/events/multilingual-writing-multilingual-translation
Continue Reading‘Attention and Distraction’: Cambridge University’s annual student-organised graduate conference on literature before 1750, Friday, 20 April (13:00-19:00), at CU Faculty of English (GR 06/07)
‘Attention and Distraction’: Cambridge University’s annual student-organised graduate conference on literature before 1750 Friday, 20 April (13:00-19:00), at CU Faculty of English (GR 06/07) For pre-modern readers, what did it mean to ‘attend’ (or fail to attend) to a text? What is the role of boredom and distraction in the reading process? How do we […]
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe and Dr Claire White: co-editors of ‘The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910: Authorial Work Ethics’, published March 2018
Marcus Waithe and Claire White, eds, The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910: Authorial Work Ethics (31 March 2018): https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137552525
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold gives a talk at the London Society for Medieval Studies, January 2018
Dr Orietta Da Rold gave a talk on ‘Paper in Late Medieval Culture: The Other Story’ at the London Society for Medieval Studies on 30 January 2018. http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminar/london-society-medieval-studies
Continue ReadingAbigail L. Glen talks about medieval creatures on the manuscript page, Fitzwilliam Museum, 7 March 2018
On 7 March 2018, Abigail L. Glen, a Doctoral Candidate in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, gave a talk on ‘Hide and seek: medieval creatures on the manuscript page’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/calendar/whatson/hide-and-seek-medieval-creatures-manuscript-page
Continue ReadingDr Alison Hennegan lectures on E. M. Forster and Italy at Study Day organised by Dr Trudi Tate, March 2018
Alison Hennegan (English) and Jeremy Thurlow (Music) gave lectures on E. M. Forster and Italy at a Study Day organised by Trudi Tate, 17 March. Students came from Cambridge, London and Inverness. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/study-days/
Continue ReadingDr Aoife Byrne lectures on Elizabeth Bowen’s writings of the Second World War, March 2018
On 6 March, Aoife Byrne lectured on Elizabeth Bowen’s writings of the Second World War in a lecture series for town and gown presented by Literature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/virginia-woolf-talks/
Continue ReadingProfessor Dame Gillian Beer receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ghent, March 2018
On 23 March, Professor Dame Gillian Beer receives an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ghent.
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright continues to present ‘Word of Mouth’ on BBC Radio 4, January-February 2018
Dr Laura Wright continues to co-host BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. Monday 22 January – Hello! Is it me you’re looking for? – The art of greetings Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright discuss the origins and psychology […]
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