On 15 November John Kerrigan will give a talk at Stanford University entitled ‘Cambridge and the Slave Trade’. Link to Stanford English News & Events

Dr Sarah Kennedy is this year’s recipient of the John Serio Award, for her essay, “‘We reason of these things with a later reason’: Plain Sense and the Poetics of Relief in Eliot and Stevens”. The prize is awarded by a committee from the Board of The Wallace Stevens Journal, and recognises the best essay […]

Join James Riley as he presents his new book, The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties at this special event hosted by Heffers, Cambridge. James will be discussing and reading from the book, there’ll be a Q+A as well as a signing session. Copies of the book will be […]

Ross Wilson will be running a five-week reading group for students at HMP Whitemoor, near March, starting on Monday, 28th October. The group will discuss Charlotte Brontë’s last (and greatest) novel, Villette, and is conducted under the auspices of the ‘Learning Together’ initiative, based at the Institute of Criminology. Link to ‘Learning Together’ website .

Bonnie Lander Johnson gives a lecture on Shakespeare’s flowers at the Shake festival in Suffolk. This three day festival organised by Jenny Hall includes lectures and workshops with Lucy Bailey, Dame Harriet Walter and Ian Kerr http://newcut.org/events/entry/9194

Anna-Maria Hartmann, Lecturer and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, has been awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize 2019 for the best book on early modern literature published in the previous year for her monograph English Mythography in its European Context 1500-1650 (OUP). The prize, named in honour of Roland H. Bainton, who was Titus Street […]

‘Dense with conspiracies, chaos and apocalyptic death drives, The Bad Trip is a history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.’ The Sunday Times ‘A meticulously researched look at how the hippies’ rejection of rules opened the doors to drug abuse, occultism and some very dark deeds.’ Mark Radcliffe ‘The Bad Trip […]

Volunteers from the ASNC Department will be performing legends of giants, gods and dragons adapted from medieval literature at a storytelling event for families hosted by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Wednesday 23 October.   All are welcome. This is the running order of stories: St. Carannog and the Dragon Beowulf the Warrior King […]