The title of Professor Da Rold’s lecture is ‘Late medieval book culture and the sociology of scripts’. The conference takes place at the University of Murcia. Link to the conference programme: https://eventos.um.es/82437/section/40878/selim-33.html
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Bhanu Kapil is a featured performer at the Burley Fisher Festival in London
The Festival is organised by Burley Fisher Books, with funding support from Arts Council England, awarding funds from the National Lottery. It takes place from Thursday 21 September to Saturday 23 September. For further information about the festival: https://burleyfisherbooks.com/blogs/news/bfday23-festival-21-23-september-back-bigger-bookier
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil is offering a workshop as part of a conference organized by the European Alliance of Academies: “On Freedom of Artistic Expression in Literature in the 21st Century”
The conference, organized by the European Alliance of Academies, in collaboration with the Royal Society of Literature, takes place at Homerton College, Cambridge, on 26-27 August 2023. Link to further information about the conference: https://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-08/eaoa_homerton-college_2023_booklet.pdf
Continue ReadingThe English Faculty was delighted to host 26 students from all over the country for the annual Sutton Trust Summer School last week
Staying at Gonville & Caius College for the week the students had a packed programme of lectures, classes and other activities designed to give them a taste of the life of an English undergrad. Students also completed an individual project; choosing topics from Keats to Plath, Virginia Woolf to Taylor Swift, Vile Bodies to The […]
Continue ReadingAnchorless Bodies: Emii Alrai in conversation with E.K. Myerson
Join the artist Emii Alrai and curator E.K. Myerson to discuss their collaboration and the themes of the current exhibition Anchorless Bodies: Navigating Arabic in Medieval Manuscripts. Friday 25 August, 6pm Wilkins Room, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Expect discussion of ancient rot, museum practices, excavation, disintegration and the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony. The talk […]
Continue ReadingLewis Roberts speaks at the Monasterevin Hopkins Society Festival, 29 July 2023
Lewis Roberts, supervisor and PhD candidate in the department, gives the guest lecture at Monasterevin Hopkins Festival on Saturday 29th July. The festival celebrates Gerard Manley Hopkins and his time spent in Dublin and Monasterevin, and is timed to coincide with his birthday. Lewis, who is taking up the Procter Fellowship at Princeton University from […]
Continue ReadingEva Dema awarded the Paroissien Prize by the Dickens Society
Eva Dema has been awarded the David Paroissien Prize by the Dickens Society for her article ”’Wind, Wind, Wind, Always Winding Am I’: Dickens’s Metafictional Clockwork”. The prize is awarded each year to the best peer-reviewed essay on Dickens published in a journal or edited collection. You can find the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgab094.
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson had lunch with the Queen as part of a reception for the First Story charity, July 2023
Queen Camilla is Patron of First Story, a charity Dr Lander Johnson partners with to bring 400 secondary school students to Cambridge for an annual festival of writing. You can read more about this year’s festival here: https://firststory.org.uk/festival/ The event took place at Clarence House, to celebrate the 15th birthday of First Story. Guests had lunch and […]
Continue ReadingOut now: Into That World Inverted, a new six-part podcast exploring LGBTQ places past and present
Taking its title from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, the podcast follows hosts Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) and renowned ‘dandy’ drag king Holly James Johnston, as they tour the south-east coast of England from Margate to Hastings. Along the way, they visit the homes of iconic figures such as Derek Jarman, Vita Sackville-West, and Henry […]
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