Dr Subha Mukherji awarded a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant on behalf of the Crossroads of Knowledge project

Subha Mukherji, on behalf of the Crossroads of Knowledge project, has won a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant to supplement the project’s qualitative research with quantitative computational analysis. This has been used to set up a new collaboration with the Humanities Digital Workshop at the George Washington University, St Louis, to work on a pilot study, […]

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Dr Sarah Kennedy gives plenary lecture at T.S. Eliot International Summer School, University of London

Dr Sarah Kennedy (Research Fellow in English, Downing College) gives plenary lecture, “‘Blood for the Ghosts’: T.S. Eliot in the Underworld”, at this year’s T.S. Eliot International Summer School, which takes place at the Institute of English Studies, University of London from 8-16 July 2017. The lecture is at 9.30am on Wednesday 12 July at the Senate House, University of London. […]

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Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence, 19-20 July 2017, California

The 2017 Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence conference will be held 19-20 July 2017 at the Huntington Library in California. The first joint venture of the Katherine Mansfield Society and the International Elizabeth von Arnim Society (current president, Dr Isobel Maddison), the conference seeks to explore the literary connections, friendships and influences that […]

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Dr Trudi Tate organises two intensive summer courses in July 2017

Trudi Tate has organised two intensive summer courses in July 2017. Woolf’s Rooms runs from 17-21 July, and Reading Bloomsbury runs from 24-28 July. The courses offer a week’s immersion in their subject, with lectures, supervisions, excursions and communal meals. Participants come from all over the world and share a student experience in Homerton College. […]

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Year’s Work in English Studies co-authors include four Cambridge researchers and recent alumni

Cambridge researchers and alumni Michael J. Sullivan, Lucy Barnes, James Harriman-Smith and Bysshe Inigo Coffey are among the co-authors of the most recent Year’s Work in English Studies, published by Oxford University Press.  The Year’s Work in English Studies is published annually, and seeks to review all scholarly work published in the previous year. The Eighteenth Century:  […]

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