Dr Jason Scott-Warren suggests that the handwriting on a Shakespeare First Folio in Philadelphia matches that of the ‘Paradise Lost’ poet, John Milton, September 2019

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 […]

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Trudi Tate organised two summer courses for Literature Cambridge: Virginia Woolf’s Gardens, 14-19 July 2019 and Fictions of Home: Jane Austen to Contemporary Refugee Writers, 21-26 July 2019.

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 […]

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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’, 6pm-8pm, Tenderbooks, Covent Garden, 14 August 2019

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 […]

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Dr Jennifer Wallace interviewed by ‘Kathimerini’, July 2019

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 […]

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