Dr Mina Gorji gives a public lecture at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival on Saturday 5 November.  The title of her talk is ‘John Clare’s Soundscapes’. http://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/

Dr Robert Macfarlane’s work on land use, language and environmental economics features in a Slate.com article examining the issues surrounding the proposed 1,200-mile North Dakota Access Pipeline: ‘How much is this land worth?’ http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/11/standing_rock_shows_why_environmentalists_should_move_beyond_cost_benefit.html

Read Dr Raphael Lyne’s 3-year anniversary review of his blog ‘What literature knows about your brain’: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/cogblog/

Jitka Štollová, a PhD student at Trinity College, publishes an essay entitled ‘Plotting Paratexts in Shirley’s The Politician‘ in a recent volume James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2016). As part of the AHRC Major Research Grant, this collection discusses one of the last great Stuart playwrights and authors of masques, […]

The next meeting of the American Research Seminar will take place on Thursday 3 November at 5pm in room SR24. Dr Will Norman (University of Kent) will be giving a paper entitled ‘Hardboiled Style: Genre, Coping, Complicity’. He will be focusing on Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon, and Raymond Chandler’s The Big […]

MATTER AT THE CROSSROADS: LITERATURE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge 25 November 2016 Speakers include Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck), Katherine Hunt (University of Oxford), Claire Preston (QMUL), Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge), Jonathan Sawday (SLU), and Helen Smith (University of York).  Please note the deadline for registration is Tuesday […]

Samuel Beckett A symposium celebrating the publication of the fourth volume of the Letters King’s College, Cambridge Friday November 25th, 14.00 – 18.00 Papers from: Steve Connor, Drew Milne, Emily Fitzell, Martin Crowley In conversation with: Chris Prendergast and John Haynes Readings from the Letters: Dan Gunn and George Craig To register for this free […]

Dr Laura Kilbride wins the 2016 Raymond Williams (RWS) Postgraduate Essay Competition: the Simon Dentith Memorial Prize for her essay ‘The New Catholic Left: Language, Liturgy and Literature in Slant Magazine, 1964-1970’.

James Riley speaks at the British Museum on Sunday 16 October as part of their special Otherworldly event. Along with Iain Sinclair, Gary Lachman and others, James uses objects in the Museum’s collection to “explore themes of cultural rituals, earth mysteries, psychogeography and folklore”. http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=3173&title=Otherworldly: a special event for Halloween&eventType=Special event

Headlands @ the Cambridge Festival of Ideas Saturday 22 October: 7:00pm – 8:00pm Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge. Following on from their exhibition in the Faculty of English earlier this year, Yvonne Salmon and James Riley present Headlands as a live event as part of the 2016 Cambridge […]