Call For Papers – Paper-stuff: Materiality, Technology and Invention, University of Cambridge, Faculty of English, 10-11 September 2018

Under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts and the Writing Britain Conference Series The introduction of paper to the West was a major technological innovation which transformed the ways in which texts of all kinds were transmitted. Having proved itself over many centuries as the intellectual fabric of Asian and Middle Eastern societies, […]

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BBC National Short Story Award – Call for submissions

The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) calls for submissions for the 13th year with television presenter, author and actress Mel Giedroyc chairing the judging panel for the 2018 award. Mel, who has co-hosted a myriad of television shows including The Great British Bake-Off, has written two books From Here to Maternity (2005) […]

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Dr Sophie Seita edits a facsimile reprint of the significant Dada magazine ‘The Blind Man’

The Blind Man and rongwrong were seminal New York Dada magazines edited and published by Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and Beatrice Wood in 1917. This facsimile edition, introduced by Sophie Seita and published by Ugly Duckling Presse, celebrates the 100th anniversary of their publication. The box set also includes a two-colour offset reproduction of Beatrice Wood’s poster for […]

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Dr Joseph Hone’s new book, ‘Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne’, published by Oxford University Press, December 2017

Dr Joseph Hone’s new book, Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne, is published by Oxford University Press on 14 December 2017: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/literature-and-party-politics-at-the-accession-of-queen-anne-9780198814078 Dr Joseph Hone is a Junior Research Fellow in English at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Joseph.Hone/

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Dr Sophie Seita’s article ‘Thinking the Unprintable in Post-Digital Publishing’ appears in ‘Chicago Review’, November 2017

Dr Sophie Seita’s article ‘Thinking the Unprintable in Post-Digital Publishing’ just appeared in Chicago Review, 60.4 (Fall 2017), 175-194. In this article, Dr Sophie Seita argues that what she calls the “imagined printedness” in the digital publishing projects of Troll Thread and Gauss PDF (with side-glances at the magazine Triple Canopy and Ugly Duckling Presse) allows […]

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Exhibition: Welcome to the Biotariat

The English Faculty Library’s Benson Gallery and the Faculty’s exhibition space on the first floor landing are host to an exhibition curated by Dr Drew Milne entitled ‘Welcome to the Biotariat’. The display looks at lichen symbiosis & representation and contains photographs, poems, scientific data and specimens. Lichen & lichenology has been a major influence […]

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