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 […]

Marcus Waithe and Claire White, eds, The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910: Authorial Work Ethics (31 March 2018): https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137552525

Dr Orietta Da Rold gave a talk on ‘Paper in Late Medieval Culture: The Other Story’ at the London Society for Medieval Studies on 30 January 2018. http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminar/london-society-medieval-studies

On 7 March 2018,  Abigail L. Glen, a Doctoral Candidate in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, gave a talk on ‘Hide and seek: medieval creatures on the manuscript page’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/calendar/whatson/hide-and-seek-medieval-creatures-manuscript-page