Helen was awarded the prize, which is for excellence in technology-enabled learning, at the Pilkington Teaching Prizes Awards Ceremony on 25 June 2019. Link to further information about the prize. Link to more information about CamGuides, and the Cambridge Information Literacy Network, of which this is a product.  

In the second year of the University of Cambridge Centre for Creative Writing’s partnership with the BBC we will celebrate the short story through a wide range of events with award-winning authors, publishers, agents and judges. There will be talks, workshops, panel discussions and conversation with authors including Tessa Hadley (in conversation with Dame Gillian […]

The Faculty is collaborating with the Prince’s Teaching Institute (https://www.ptieducation.org/) on an English Enrichment Residential in Cambridge, 29 June-1 July.  Members of the Faculty have been working with the PTI to deliver research-led, academically inspiring CPD to secondary-school teachers for over a decade.  By helping teachers to re-engage with the academic subject they love, the […]

This is the third instalment in Jan’s series of books on the relationship between literature, theology, and English Law. Her first book considered the relationship between the legal rules of evidence and narrative form, and her second book focused on literature’s preoccupation with justice and ethics. The new monograph, ‘Censorship and the Representation of the […]

Sophie Seita’s first solo show—My Little Enlightenment Plays—presents imaginary tête-à-têtes with Enlightenment figures through a selection of videos, sound pieces, texts, performance props and costumes. The exhibition opens on Thursday 13 June with My Little Enlightenment, performed by Seita with live electronic sound by Rhodri Karim. The exhibition continues until 6 July, closing with a performance of Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers on the Saturday at 4.30pm. More info […]

Wednesday 12 June, 5.15pm-7.15pm, Scientiae 2019 Conference, Queen’s University Belfast: ‘Ways of Knowing’ Plenary panel led by Dr Subha Mukherji Anupam Basu (Washington) “Knowledge domains within the Early Modern printed corpus” Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest) “Reason and emotion in Robert Boyle’s moral and natural religious thought” Torrance Kirby (McGill) “A Form of the forms of knowing: […]

The pre-arrival resource for taught Master’s students, CamGuides, was recently announced as a runner-up for the Digital Award for Information Literacy 2019. Link to CamGuides. Link to further information about Digital Award for Information Literacy 2019. CamGuides was written and developed by Helen Murphy (English Faculty Library Manager) with support from the University’s Language Centre. […]

Dr Zoë Svendsen speaks at Ecological Issues and Environmental Problems in Theatre and Performing Arts, an international conference taking place in Bratislava, Slovakia, 4-9 May 2019. Link to conference programme.

Felicity Sheehy, a PhD student in English at King’s College, has been awarded the 2019 Jane Martin Poetry Prize, sponsored by Girton College. The prize was judged by Adam Crothers and Hilary Davies and was open to UK resident poets ages 18-30.  It was established in 2010 in memory of Girton alumna Jane Elizabeth Martin. […]

Dr Laura Wright speaks about ‘Language and London Bridge’ at the Docklands History Group Annual Conference on Saturday 18 May 2019.  The conference looks at ‘The Medieval Port of London’, and takes place at the Museum of London. A link to the conference website and programme.