Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is at the Ways with Words Literary Festival at Dartington Hall on 13 July to talk about The Bard in Africa. Shakespeare’s plays were carried into the lake regions of Africa by Burton and Stanley; performed in Mombasa by travelling Indian troupes; read by boy soldiers in the Sudanese civil wars. Dr […]

The Faculty is sad to note the death of Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill on 30th June.  Geoffrey Hill came from a lectureship at Leeds to a teaching Fellowship in English at Emmanuel from 1981 until 1988, during which time he lectured in the Faculty.  He was elected an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel in 1990, and […]

Dr Rod Mengham’s poem ‘Repeat This’ is chosen by Carol Rumens to be The Guardian’s Poem of the Week.  ‘Repeat This’ is taken from Dr Mengham’s 2015 collection, Chance of a Storm, published by Carcanet Press. Dr Mengham has written books on Henry Green, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and on language and cultural […]

The English Faculty would like to offer our congratulations to PhD Student, Hunter Dukes; this year’s national first-prize winner of the British Association for Irish Studies Postgraduate Essay Competition. The competition is open to graduate students researching topics in Irish Studies across all disciplines. Ms Dukes attended an awards ceremony hosted by the Irish Ambassador, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.