On Saturday 30th November 2024, India Oswin (a PhD candidate at Trinity College) is convening ‘Between Word and Image: New Perspectives on Concrete Poetry and Women’s Visual Poetics’, a hybrid symposium and collaborative poetry performance in the Faculty of English. Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the first international exhibition of concrete and kinetic poetry, […]

Juliette Bretan features on this week’s Times Literary Supplement (TLS) podcast, talking about her review of ‘Europe in British Literature and Culture’ (CUP, 2024), edited by Petra Rau and William T Rossiter. To listen to the podcast: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/the-podcast/the-tls-podcast-october-10-2024. To read the review: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/literary-criticism/europe-in-british-literature-and-culture-petra-rau-william-r-rossiter-book-review-juliette-bretan. Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate in English at the University of […]

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 has been awarded to Han Kang. The Swedish Academy praised the South Korean author for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Dr Dominic O’Key, a Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published an article on Han’s work that explores the […]

Prof Raphael Lyne has been awarded a grant in a new interdisciplinary scheme run by UK Research and Innovation. The project’s title is ‘When memories come alive: an interdisciplinary study of the vividness of memory’. What does it feel like to have a memory? We know surprisingly little about how we can vividly relive past […]

Dr Jennifer Wallace gives an invited lecture on Greek tragedy and ecopoetics, entitled “Hamartia in the Anthropocene”, in the Classics Faculty at Cornell University on Friday 25 October. Link for further information: https://events.cornell.edu/event/jennifer-wallace-classics-speaker-series

Dr Jennifer Wallace is invited to speak about “Byron and Greece: A ‘motley scene’” at a concert arranged to honour his memory in this bicentenary year at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens on Tuesday 1st October.

Online book launch of Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology Edited by Beryl Pong and Michael Richardson Published with the Technographies Series of Open Humanities Press (2024).  Series editors: Steven Connor, David Trotter, James Purdon Wednesday 2 October 2024 12-1:30pm on Zoom Register here for the link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/centrefordronesandculture/1393136 The editors will be in conversation with the […]

The Faculty of English is holding two online study evenings on Thursday 7th and Thursday 14th November 2024. The events are aimed at A Level, IB or Scottish Higher English Literature students who may be considering studying English at university. If you are in Year 11 and thinking about taking English next year you are […]

The Faculty is very pleased to announce that it has renewed its Athena SWAN bronze award status, which it will hold for the next five years. Athena SWAN is an accreditation scheme that recognises and celebrates good practice in higher education promoting gender equality. The renewal rewards great success in following through the previous action […]

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