ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND Trying things out in America: Literature, Culture, and Criticism Faculty of English Graduate Conference,  13th May 2017  from 9.15am PLENARY: CATHERINE GANDER (QUEENS BELFAST) ‘Between no longer and not yet there’s still life’: art and time in Don DeLillo’s late fiction    

It was another strong year for the faculty at the CUSU student-led teaching awards with recognition (from over 600 nominations) for: Priya Gopal, Stacey McDowell, Louise Joy, Hero Chalmers, Chris Burlinson and Helen Thaventhiran.

  Public House Screening and Q&A with director Sarah Turner and Yvonne Salmon Tuesday 16 May 6.20pm Cambridge Arts Picturehouse Public House Dir: Sarah Turner United Kingdom / 2016 / 96min Public House tells the story of the Ivy House Pub in Peckham. Slated to be sold to property developers in 2012, the local community […]

Dr Orietta da Rold will  present a paper entitled ‘Paper Threads’ at ‘Text, Textile, Texture’, the third Text Technologies Collegium, which takes place at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford, from 17-19 May 2017.  Dr da Rold’s paper looks at the cultural and social significance of paper use in medieval England beyond writing. […]

In conversation with the scholar and writer Danny Snelson, Sophie Seita discusses the values, histories, present-tense promises, and various metaphoric, material, and digital futures of little magazines. Online here: http://partisanhotel.co.uk/Sophie-Seita-Danny-Snelson The piece was also reviewed on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2017/04/the-little-magazine-in-the-present-tense-sophie-seita-danny-snelson-in-conversation/

Dr Sophie Seita was awarded a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant (£1500) for the development of My Little Enlightenment Plays—a project that blends academic research, performance, and publication. Its aim is to present innovative performance research in innovative formats to an academic and non-academic audience. The project explores forms of collaboration and experiment in contemporary avant-garde […]

Interview with a Linguist Dr Laura Wright interviews Professor Louise Sylvester in the May issue (no. 19) of Babel magazine (a linguistics magazine aimed at the general public). http://www.babelzine.com/2016-09-21-12-15-29/issue-guide.html  

PEPYS THE MUSICIAN Dr Jane Hughes and Professor Christopher Page contribute to an investigation of the seventeenth-century diarist, Samuel Pepys, and his deep passion for music in a Radio 4 programme partly recorded in Magdalene College, Pepys Library, and focusing on Pepys’s private composer, Cesare Morelli. It is available on iplayer here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y8

Dr Robert Macfarlane has been awarded the E M Forster Award for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award will be made in New York on May 17th. http://artsandletters.org/about/ E M Forster (Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy) bequeathed the American publication rights and royalties of his posthumous novel Maurice to […]

Dr Laura Wright is to give a talk entitled ‘Language in Motion’ at the opening night of the London Transport Museum’s new exhibtion, Sounds of the City, on Friday 19 May.  In her talk, Dr Wright will consider the entirely unintended knock-on linguistic effect of the railway boom in the 1840s. https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/events-calendar/friday-lates