Listen to Prof. Michael Hurley @TrinCollCam speaking about the transformative power of art and literature on BBC Radio 4’s Thought For The Day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jnsnnb

Dr Katrin Ettenhuber has been awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for her book The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 (OUP, 2023).  It is the British Academy’s oldest prize, and one of the most significant awards in international literary scholarship.  More information can be found here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/rose-mary-crawshay-prize/

The annual Religion and Literature lecture is sponsored this year by The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Departments of Art/Art History/Design, English, Philosophy, Program of Liberal Studies, and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, together with the academic journal Religion & Literature, which also […]

On 16 September, Professor Houen gives a keynote paper entitled “Poets’ Novels and Free Indirect Affect” at the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English, University of Augsburg: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/philhist/forschung/tagungen-konferenzen/anglistiktag-2024/academic-programme/

English in Studies in Africa invites contributions to a special issue, ‘The Beat Generation and Africa’ guest edited by Eva Kowalska and A. Robert Lee. Over the last few decades, scholarly work on the Beat Generation writers has become increasingly transnational, comparative, and inclusive of work on authors from outside of the core canon of […]

When we talk about mothering and politics together, we usually consider isolated moments: the policing of breastfeeding, or the cost of childcare. This book argues that this is not enough, constructing an alternative history of the UK—from the Women’s Liberation Movement to austerity—that reveals motherhood itself to be an inherently political state. ‘Mother State places […]

Claudia Cornelissen (PhD candidate, Faculty of English and St John’s College) was selected to Chawton House as a Summer Fellow.  Her research revolves around feminist revisionist literature and she is spending her time as a Visiting Fellow at Chawton working on the parts of her research related to works by Aphra Behn and Charlotte Lennox. […]

A new exhibition, curated by Professor Laura Wright jointly with Gibraltar National Archives, entitled “Llanito: Past, Present, Future”, can be seen at the Fine Arts Gallery, Casemates Square, La Esplanada, Gibraltar, from 19 August to 13 September 2024.  

Dr Tom Zille speaks to Dr Gillian Dooley, the author of ‘She played and sang’ (Manchester University Press, 2024), which explores Jane Austen and music.  The conversation takes place at Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge, on Monday 12 August at 6pm. Link to further information and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/she-played-and-sang-gillian-dooley-at-heffers-bookshop-tickets-927208574807