Dr Sarah Haggarty joins Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time to discuss Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 23 June and is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player Dr Haggarty is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of English, and a Fellow of Queens’ College. She […]
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Headlands – A New Exhibition on the First Floor, Faculty of English, 23 June to 11 July 2016
Headlands – A New Exhibition on the First Floor In 2015 Yvonne Salmon and James Riley travelled through North Cornwall. They went in search of evidence pertaining to two fictional and folkloric events: the filming of the sci-fi drama *The Nightmare Man* (1981) in Port Isaac and the 1645 ‘abduction’ of Ann Jefferies from the […]
Continue ReadingWinner at The Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards
Dr Hazel Wilkinson – Junior Research Fellow in English at Fitzwilliam College – was amongst six winners from across the University of a Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award. The new awards have been set up to recognise and reward those who undertake quality engagement with research. Dr Wilkinson received a trophy and a personal cash prize of […]
Continue ReadingDr Kasia Boddy Gives Keynote At ‘Visualities – Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources’ , Cologne, June 2016
Dr Kasia Boddy gives a Keynote entitled ‘American Girl: The Iconographies of Helen Wills’ at ‘Visualities: Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources’. This interdisciplinary conference, devoted to the study and analysis of various types of visual sources from the realm of sports, takes place in Cologne, Germany, from 24-26 June 2016.
Continue ReadingDr Elizabeth Savage Receives This Year’s Wolfgang Ratjen Award
Dr Elizabeth Savage is awarded this year’s Wolfgang Ratjen Award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The Wolfgang Ratjen Award is an annual award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The prize, funded by the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation, is curated and presented by the Association of Friends of the Zentralinstitut […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright: Plenary Speaker at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, 15-18 June 2016
Dr Laura Wright is a Plenary Speaker at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, taking place at the University of Murcia, Spain, 15-18 June 2016. In 2016, the general theme of Europe’s premier international conference on language in society is Attitudes and Prestige.
Continue ReadingHolly Corfield Carr Awarded Visiting Research Fellowship, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Holly Corfield Carr has been awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds for the year 2016/17 in order to research the writing practices of sculptors working with text in Britain after 1960. For more information: https://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/research/hmi-visiting-research-fellowships/fellowships-archive/201617-fellows
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Presents BBC Radio 3 Literary Pursuits
The third and fourth episodes in Dr Sarah Dillon’s literary detective documentary series for BBC Radio 3 – Literary Pursuits – will be broadcast to bracket the Hay Festival at 6.45pm on Sunday 29th May and Sunday 5th June. Episode 3 investigates the story behind the posthumous publication of Jane Austen’s Persuasion whilst episode 4 travels to […]
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace and Professor Adrian Poole at Hay Literary Festival: 31st May 2016
Hay Literary Festival. Tuesday 31st May, 1pm. Jennifer Wallace and Adrian Poole. Cambridge Series 11: Literary Celebrities in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Jennifer Wallace and Adrian Poole will be discussing the rise of literary celebrity in the C18th and C19th, the cult of the poet and the trade in literary relics and reading from […]
Continue ReadingDr Mina Gorji at Cambridge University Botanic Garden Festival of Plants, 14 May 2016
Dr Mina Gorji gave a talk entitled John Clare’s Ragwort: Weeds and Wildflowers at the 2016 Festival of Plants which took place at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens on Saturday 14 May.
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