Dr Trudi Tate announces the first Literature Cambridge summer school, Virginia Woolf in Cambridge, taking place at Homerton College, Cambridge, 18-22 July 2016. 21 students from all over the world have signed up for five days’ immersion in the writings of Virginia Woolf, with lectures, supervisions, readings, excursions, etc. Literature Cambridge is an independent educational […]
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Dr Alison Knight Awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2017-2020
Dr Alison Knight is awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for 2017-2020, to work on a project entitled “Stranger Churches: Hate Speech and Religious Refugees in Early Modern England.” For this project, Dr Knight explores the heated public discourse surrounding risks and responsibilities toward migrant European Protestant populations in sixteenth century England, primarily Dutch and French […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee at Ways with Words Literary Festival, 13 July 2016
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 […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Sir Geoffrey Hill Dies Aged 84
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 […]
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