Dr Laura Wright is a Keynote Speaker at the Eleventh International Conference on Middle English, which takes place at the University of Florence,  5-8 February 2019.  The title of Dr Wright’s lecture is ‘On the Multilingual Background to Standard English’. https://www.icome11.unifi.it/index.php

Reading Dylan Thomas has been published by Edinburgh University Press. It features essays by several academics in Cambridge – Deborah Bowman, Leo Mellor, and Rod Mengham – as well as an introduction by its editor, Edward Allen. The cover art is the work of India Lewis, who read English at Jesus College. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading-dylan-thomas.html

The purpose of the project is to design, create and test prototypes for a new, Fitzwilliam-centric subscription service using the technology created by Museum In a Box. MIaB is an edtech company pioneering the use of ‘Brain Boxes’: a small plywood box, about the size of a Roberts radio, containing speakers, a Raspberry Pi, and […]

The International Laurence Sterne Foundation has now opened its Call for Papers for its third conference, on the topic of ‘War and Peace in the Age of Sterne’, to be held in Utrecht 31st October-2nd November 2019. Further details can be found on the conference website: https://sternelegacies.com/utrecht-2019/

Ever wondered whether W. S. Graham liked to draw? Or what he made of flying? Or what kinds of spaces – real and imagined – are opened up by his tricky poetry? Come along on Friday to hear a group of people asking and answering these questions – and some others – as we celebrate […]

Dr Sophie Seita has published ‘The Politics of the Forum in Feminist Avant-Garde Magazines After 1980‘ in the Journal of Modern Literature, 42.1 (Fall 2018), pp. 163-182. Abstract Dissatisfied with the exclusion of women from preceding avant-gardes, the overlapping communities that formed around the feminist avant-garde magazines Chain, Raddle Moon, HOW(ever), and HOW2 attempted to forge […]

Dr Trudi Tate has published an article about Vietnamese-American refugee writers Viet Nguyen and Thuy Le: ‘Living Afterwards’, Book 2.0, 8:1-2 (2018).    

Dylan Carver, Eliza Haughton-Shaw, Alexander Hobday and Ephraim Levinson are all speaking at the British Society for 18th Century Studies Annual Conference in Oxford, January 4-6, in a special panel showcasing current PhD work in the Faculty. The title of the panel is ‘Cultural Transformation in Later Eighteenth-Century Britain: New Directions from the University of […]

Conference registration open A Good Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying Well 10 January 2019 – 11 January 2019 Conference convenors: Dr Laura Davies and Dr Emma Salgard Cunha http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27897 Dying well is an increasingly urgent and ubiquitous topic within discussions of ageing, palliative care, euthanasia, bereavement, grief, and mental health. This conference brings together researchers […]