Dr Robert Macfarlane has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. The fellowship, for the 2017-18 academic year, will allow Dr Macfarlane to complete Underland, a book on subterranea and the Anthropocene, and move forwards with a book called Unsettlement, about broken ground and the landscape-eerie.
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Dr Orietta Da Rold awarded British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Dr Orietta Da Rold has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. The fellowship, for the 2017-18 academic year, will allow Dr Da Rold to explore the coming to England of paper. The emphasis of the project is on how paper influenced changes to communication processes before printing. It will consider the earliest evidence for […]
Continue ReadingDr Jenny Bavidge elected a Fellow of the English Association
Jenny Bavidge has been elected as a Fellow of the English Association. The English Association was founded in 1906 and aims to ‘further knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the English language and its literatures and to foster good practice in its teaching and learning at all levels.’ http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association
Continue ReadingJessica Lim and Nathaniel Zetter convene ‘Embodying Media: From Print to the Digital’, 27 May 2017
Jessica Lim and Nathaniel Zetter, Graduate Students in the Faculty of English, are co-convening the conference ‘Embodying Media: From Print to the Digital’, on Saturday 27th May at the Faculty of English. The keynote speaker is Seb Franklin from KCL, and there are over 30 registered attendees. This conference is conducted in partnership with the […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon to Present BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking at the Hay Festival
On Sunday 28th May, Dr Sarah Dillon will be presenting a special edition of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme – Writing and Rewriting the Past – live at the Hay Festival, as part of the BBC’s line-up for the 2017 event. The programme will bring together the authors of three historical novels to discuss the […]
Continue ReadingDr Orietta da Rold is an Invited Speaker at The Paper Manuscript, University College Cork
Dr Orietta da Rold is to deliver a paper entitled ‘Paper in medieval English books’ at a colloquium on The Paper Manuscript at the Department of Modern Irish, University College Cork, on Friday 26 May 2017.
Continue ReadingRegistration open for ‘Embodying Media: From Print to the Digital’
Embodying Media: From Print to the Digital Venue: Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Date: Saturday, 27th May, 2017 The relationship between the media of writing and the human body has been fraught with affective potentials. This one-day conference aims to examine this relationship between the materiality of texts and the materiality of bodies by bringing together researchers from […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Dame Gillian Beer wins Truman Capote Prize
Professor Dame Gillian Beer has been awarded the the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. This award is administered by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Literary Trust. http://www.iowacenterforthebook.org/awards/capote-awards
Continue ReadingDr Fiona Green discusses the life and work of Emily Dickinson on Radio 4
Dr Fiona Green discusses the life and work of Emily Dickinson with Melvyn Bragg on Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’. Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08p5lbp —
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Address at ‘Graphic Reading’ Symposium, University of Birmingham
Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at a symposium on Graphic Reading at the University of Birmingham on Friday 19th May. Dr Dillon will be delivering a paper entitled ‘The Ungrammatical Knife: A Feminist Rereading of Ghost Dance‘ which will present material extracted from a chapter of her book, Queer Intimacies: Deconstruction, Feminism, Film, forthcoming […]
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