Poetry Reading on Saturday 30 April, 2016. 8pm to 9.30pm in the Faculty of English Judith E Wilson Drama Studio. Featuring: Geoff Gilbert & Alex Houen, Chris Nealon and Sophie Mayer  

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is at the Stratford Literary Festival on 29 April, taking part in ‘For All time – The Global Reach of Shakespeare’.  In  discussion, Dr Wilson-Lee, Bennet Brandreth and Gabriel Josipovici explore the extraordinary reach of Shakespeare’s global legacy, and look at how he is interpreted in wildly differing cultures. Dr Wilson-Lee also […]

The English Faculty hosts several forums from ART / MONEY / CRISIS, an international two-day conference based at CRASSH.  The conference timetable includes artistic practitioners and academic speakers from disciplines including literature, sociology, economics, visual arts, cultural studies, anthropology, history, music, and politics. ART / MONEY / CRISIS features contributions from Faculty of English members […]

An all-ages event, with a special pop-up exhibition of Shakespeare-related materials.  Come and hear (very) short informal talks by researchers in the Faculty of English on subjects ranging from the myth of Richard III, illustrated Shakespeare, women editing Shakespeare, and Shakespeare in Swaziland, illustrated by a wide range of items from the University Library’s holdings, […]

Dr Wright talks on Shakespearean actors and their linguistic – and addictive – legacy at St Andrew by the Wardrobe Parish Church, London, on Monday April 25, 2016. This talk forms part of events at the church to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and celebrate his links with the parish. Shakespeare worked close […]

Organised by the Faculty of English and CRASSH, this two-day Colloquium explores ideas of change and exchange – and their implicit interrelation – across various early modern domains engaged with ways of knowing.  Change and Exchange takes place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, April 29-30 2016. The Convenors for this event are Dr Subha Mukherji, Dr […]

Sarah Wood is at the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio on 25 April to introduce a series of films about lost languages. Sarah Wood works with the found object, particularly the still and moving image, as an act of reclamation and re-interrogation. She works mainly with the documentary image to interrogate the relationship between the […]

Dr Wright is a Plenary Speaker at the international symposium Urbanisation in the British Isles: a historical and interdisciplinary perspective, University of Lausanne (Switzerland) April 22-23 2016. In her paper, Urbanisation and house names in London 1700-1900, Dr Wright examines the development of nineteenth century house names and focuses on one in particular, preferred by […]

Professor John Kerrigan lectures on ‘Shakespeare’s Originality’ at Il Nuovo Mondo: Cervantes, Garcilaso L’Inca, Shakespeare, on 22 April 2016.  This event is organised at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, to mark the fourth centenary of the deaths of Miguel de Cervantes, Garcilaso de la Vega and William Shakespeare.