Professor John Kerrigan will be the Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English, Princeton University, from 9-12 October 2017. During an intensive three-to-five-day period, The Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow lectures and participates in classes, colloquia and informal discussions. https://humanities.princeton.edu/people/role/short-term-visiting-fellows/

Dr Leo Mellor will be giving a paper entitled ”Mountain heather and blunt trauma: demob aftermath, violent nature and the post-war sublime’ at the London Modernism Seminar on 7 October.  This seminar is organised by The Institute of English Studies (University of London). https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/12599

Wednesday 27th September, 4pm Faculty of English; 8pm Cambridge Unitarian Hall. Two events, two venues across one evening. Join Gerald Nicosia author, poet, biographer and acclaimed Beat scholar for a specially curated evening consisting of a lecture presentation and a live poetry reading. Gerald Nicosia is the author of Memory Babe, the classic biography of […]

Dr Paul Hartle has edited the first complete edition of the poetry of Charles Cotton (1630-1687). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-poetry-of-charles-cotton-9780198123507?q=charles%20cotton&lang=en&cc=gb

Sophie Seita’s experimental performance piece Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers  to be presented at Bold Tendencies, in Peckham, on 29 September. Performed by Vahni Capildeo, Prudence Chamberlain, Adrianna Liedtke, Celine Lowenthal, Nisha Ramayya, Sophie Seita, and Emma Stirling. Sculptural objects, set, and costumes by Anna Moser.

Dr Michael Hurley will give a lecture at The Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, at the University of St Andrews, on 22 September. The title for his lecture is ‘Faith and Poetic Assent’, and the details for this talk are: http://itia.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/activities/research-seminar/

Dr Sophie Seita (JRF, Queens’) writes about the late British poet Tom Raworth’s editing activities and the avant-garde networks with which he was involved in an article published in Critical Quarterly (Volume 59, Issue 2). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/criq.12334/epdf