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English Faculty News

Month: January 2016

Lichen Ohms Seriatim and The Internet of Things

An installation that ran at Corpus Christi College Chapel during the Festival of Ideas in 2015, ‘Lichen Ohms Seriatim’–created by Drew Milne, Tom Hall, and Barry Byford and partially funded by the Faculty’s Judith E Wilson Fund–is gaining new popularity this week after the Raspberry Pi Blog posted about its use of the single-board computer […]

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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Elizabeth Savage Curates British Museum Exhibition

Earliest attempts at colour printing in the West are on display for the first time at British Museum exhibition of German Renaissance Colour Woodcuts curated by British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Elizabeth Savage. A new exhibition at the British Museum examines the earliest attempts to incorporate colour into printmaking in the 1400s and 1500s in […]

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New Centre for Material Texts exhibition space opens with 19th century commonplace books

The first Centre for Material Texts exhibition is now live in the new exhibition cases on the first floor of the English Faculty at 9 West Road. Graduate students on Ruth Abbott’s MPhil module on 19th century writers’ notebooks have installed an exhibition of original 19th century commonplace books. The exhibition had its first installment […]

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Dr Lucy Allen – Positively Medieval on BBC Radio 4

Dr Lucy Allen presents a new episode of Four Thought, a BBC Radio 4 series of thought-provoking talks in which speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect culture and society. In  Positively Medieval, Dr Allen argues that the way in which medieval society is often presented – as indifferent to sexual violence […]

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Dr Sarah Dillon Investigates the Story Behind the Story of Literature’s Great Works – BBC Radio 3

Faculty of English academic Dr Sarah Dillon is to become a literary detective in a new Sunday Feature series on BBC Radio 3 exploring great works of literature and how they came to be written. The series, called Literary Pursuits, begins this Sunday (10th January) with a look at the story behind Great Expectations by […]

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