The fourth Annual Lecture of the Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership will be given by Professor Adriana Cavarero, Head of the Scientific Board of the Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies at the University of Verona.  Professor Cavarero will speak on ‘Political Phonospheres: Plurality and Crowds’. Time: 5.00pm, Monday 30 April 2018. Venue: 8 Mill Lane, […]

PhD candidate Holly Corfield Carr will be discussing site-specific writing practices in caves on Radio 4’s The Echo Chamber. The programme was recorded on site in Goatchurch Cavern in the Mendips with poet Sean Borodale reading from his latest collection Asylum (Cape, 2018). It was broadcast on Sunday 22nd April at 4.30pm and is available […]

Dr Jessica Berenbeim’s new book is part of a collaboration with curators at the British Museum. It looks at the constitutive role of seals and sealing in hierarchies of social, institutional, and representational status, and also complements the Museum’s ongoing digitisation programme to widen access to this important collection. The book’s title is: Seals and […]

Literature is dialogue, as every scholar since Bakhtin knows. Yet, for most our work, students of literature keep trudging on safely within our own periods, genres, styles, materials, ideals, and presuppositions. This is of course, partly pragmatic: no one can be an expert in everything. But such considerations do not absolve us of the duty […]

Dr Sophie Seita is part of a panel of experts on New York Dada at CUNY in New York. About the event: Marcel Duchamp, The Blind Man, and New York Dada: Institutional Critique and Editorial Practices Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Join Mary Ann Caws, Thierry de Duve, David Joselit, Sophie […]

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI READING: MONDAY 30th APRIL, 9pm, ST JOHN’S COLLEGE CHAPEL To mark her commemoration in the Calendar of the Church of England (though a few days after the date of the commemoration itself), a reading of poems by Christina Rossetti will be held at St John’s College Chapel. The readings will begin at 9pm […]

Clare Jones, a candidate for an MPhil in 18th Century and Romantic Studies, has been shortlisted for the Keats-Shelley Prize awarded by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. http://www.keats-shelley.co.uk/the-keats-shelley-prizes/the-keats-shelley-prize/keats-shelley-prize-2018

Payton Danner, a candidate for an MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature, has won a Fulbright scholarship. Fully funded and selected by the U.S. Department of State and Austrian Fulbright Commission, Payton Danner will work in Vienna as a guest researcher at the Institut für Germanistik of the University of Vienna, along with teaching English […]

British Library translator-in-residence Jen Calleja discusses multilingual writing and multilingual translation with Sophie Seita (translator of Uljana Wolf) and Maltese poet and translator Antoine Cassar. Monday 16 April 2018, 19.15-20.30, Knowledge Centre, The British Library https://www.bl.uk/events/multilingual-writing-multilingual-translation  

‘Attention and Distraction’: Cambridge University’s annual student-organised graduate conference on literature before 1750 Friday, 20 April (13:00-19:00), at CU Faculty of English (GR 06/07) For pre-modern readers, what did it mean to ‘attend’ (or fail to attend) to a text? What is the role of boredom and distraction in the reading process? How do we […]