Dr Edward Wilson-Lee’s new book Shakespeare in Swahililand is published on 10 March with HarperCollins. The launch party takes place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, also on 10 March. Shakespeare in Swahililand is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the part played by Shakespeare’s works in […]
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Dr Ian Patterson Publishes New Book of Poems: Time Dust
Dr Ian Patterson’s new book of poems, Time Dust (Equipage, 2015), is launched with a reading at Heffer’s, Cambridge, on Wednesday 24 February 2016.
Continue ReadingDr Raphael Lyne Publishes New Book: Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature
Dr Raphael Lyne’s new book Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature is published in February 2016 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Using ideas from cognitive science this work sets up some new ways of thinking about how poems remember one another, but keeps coming back to the idea that the poems and plays are themselves essays and […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee at Bath Festival of Literature
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee speaks to author and broadcaster Jenni Mills about his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand at the Independent Bath Festival of Literature on Thursday 3 March, from 4.30 to 5.30. Shakespeare in Swahililand, published on 10 March with HarperCollins, is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the […]
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan Publishes New Book: ‘Shakespeare’s Binding Language’
Professor John Kerrigan’s new book Shakespeare’s Binding Language will be published this month with Oxford University Press. The work, a state-of-the-art intervention into Shakespeare studies, offers a transformative account of a large number of Shakespeare’s plays. Making interdisciplinary use of historical, legal, and religious sources, Shakespeare’s Binding Language engages with new ideas about performance and ‘performativity’. “a massive, complicated and brilliant interpretation […]
Continue ReadingDr Ian Patterson Plenary Lecture at Obscure Modernism Conference
Dr Ian Patterson gives the plenary lecture at the Obscure Modernism Conference, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, Saturday 27 February. This one-day conference explores modernism, its practitioners and cultural products, under the aspect of their obscurity, understood in a variety of ways.
Continue ReadingJunior Research Fellow Dr Hazel Wilkinson Awarded Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Visiting Fellowship in English and Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History
Dr Hazel Wilkinson, Junior Research Fellow in English, has been awarded a Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Visiting Fellowship in English Literature 2016-17 at the Bodleian Libraries. She has also been awarded the Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History by the American Printing History Association. Both awards are in support of work her new monograph on the Wild […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Hosts BBC Radio 3 & Wellcome Trust ‘Body of Essays’ Event
On Monday 29th February, Dr Sarah Dillon will host ‘Body of Essays‘, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust and BBC Radio 3. The Wellcome Collection Reading Room will be the setting for a live recording of a series of Radio 3’s ‘The Essay’, in which five writers will ruminate on a different organ of the body. The […]
Continue ReadingFaith in Poetry, The Lent Term Sermon Series
On 21st February 2016, Dr Michael Hurley presents a talk on Faith in Poetry as part of the Lent Term Sermon Series at St Catharine’s College Chapel. Choral Evensong, 6pm Sundays, throughout Lent Term.
Continue ReadingPhD Candidate Lotte Reinbold awarded David Almond Fellowship
Lotte Reinbold, PhD Candidate in English has been awarded a David Almond fellowship for research into ideas of the medieval in the writing of Diana Wynne Jones. The fellowship will allow Lotte to visit the archives of Seven Stories, a children’s literature museum in Newcastle, where she will have access to the Diana Wynne Jones papers, including manuscripts and personal correspondence. […]
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