Dr Robert Macfarlane has written the script for Mountain, a film which explores the powerful force that mountains hold over the imagination of so many.  Mountain is directed by Jennifer Peedom.  Voiced by Willem Dafoe, it features a score performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra.   The World Premiere takes place at the Sydney Opera […]

Currently on display in the Cambridge English Faculty exhibition space is a selection of some of the most fascinating, rare, important, and often forgotten avant-garde magazines from the early twentieth century all the way up to the present day. ‘A Century of Avant-Garde Little Magazines’ celebrates the crucial and multifarious contributions magazines have made not […]

Dr Leo Mellor has been invited to give a paper on June 17th at (Un)Civil War?, a two-day colloquium at the University of  St Andrews. (Un)Civil War? will examine conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries in order to question perceptions of civility, violence, commemoration and human rights during war and ‘peace’. https://uncivilwarcolloquium.wordpress.com/ https://uncivilwarcolloquium.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/doctor-leo-mellor/  

Hosted by Sophie Seita Readers: Caspar Heinemann, Luke McMullan, and Wendy Lotterman Caspar Heinemann is an artist, writer and poet based in Berlin. They are interested in queer mysticism, critical eco-poetics, and countercultural aesthetics. Recent events include readings at the Serpentine Miracle Marathon, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, and Basis voor Aktuele Kunst, Utrecht. They have […]

A rediscovered revision copy of The Golden Treasury reveals the enduring influence of Alfred, Lord Tennyson on the English literary canon. Michael Sullivan, a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of English, has discovered a revision copy of Britain’s best-known poetry anthology, The Golden Treasury, which sheds new light on the development of the English literary […]

Jessica Lim (Faculty of English) co-convened the symposium ‘The Children’s Book as Material Object’ with Jen Aggleton (Faculty of Education) on Wednesday 10 May. There were over 60 attendees, with presenters flying in from North America and Poland. The symposium included a keynote by Philip Nel from Kansas State University; an exhibition display set up […]

Dr Robert Macfarlane has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. The fellowship, for the 2017-18 academic year, will allow Dr Macfarlane to complete Underland, a book on subterranea and the Anthropocene, and move forwards with a book called Unsettlement, about broken ground and the landscape-eerie.

Dr Orietta Da Rold has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. The fellowship, for the 2017-18 academic year, will allow Dr Da Rold to explore the coming to England of paper.  The emphasis of the project is on how paper influenced changes to communication processes before printing.  It will consider the earliest evidence for […]

Jenny Bavidge has been elected as a Fellow of the English Association. The English Association was founded in 1906 and aims to ‘further knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the English language and its literatures and to foster good practice in its teaching and learning at all levels.’ http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association