Dr Edward Wilson-Lee Awarded Leverhulme Fellowship for 2016/17

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for 2016/2017 to work on his next project: The Life and Library of Columbus’ Bastard Son. Hernando Colón, son of Columbus the explorer, was the collector of the first great library of the print age, the core of which survives today as the Biblioteca Colombina within […]

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CMT Exhibition Space: Something New: Shakespeare in Eastern Africa

“Something New: Shakespeare in Eastern Africa” is an exhibition with just a few tantalizing samples of the extraordinary Shakespearean stories, texts, and events that have formed part of East African history over the past century and a half. Shakespearean works accompanied Victorian expeditions into the interior as their only reading, were among the first printed […]

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Dr Edward Wilson-Lee at the Stratford Literary Festival, 29 April 2016

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is at the Stratford Literary Festival on 29 April, taking part in ‘For All time – The Global Reach of Shakespeare’.  In  discussion, Dr Wilson-Lee, Bennet Brandreth and Gabriel Josipovici explore the extraordinary reach of Shakespeare’s global legacy, and look at how he is interpreted in wildly differing cultures. Dr Wilson-Lee also […]

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‘ART / MONEY / CRISIS’ Conference at the Faculty of English and CRASSH, 29-30 April, 2016

The English Faculty hosts several forums from ART / MONEY / CRISIS, an international two-day conference based at CRASSH.  The conference timetable includes artistic practitioners and academic speakers from disciplines including literature, sociology, economics, visual arts, cultural studies, anthropology, history, music, and politics. ART / MONEY / CRISIS features contributions from Faculty of English members […]

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