Launch party and reading: UN-TIER A queer and feminist zine Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio Monday 26 November 2018, 8.30pm-10pm The zine will be available on the night for free With readings from participants of Sophie Seita’s MPhil seminar ‘Experimental Writing by Women’
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Dr Michael D. Hurley writes on why this is a doubly important year for Victorian poet G. M. Hopkins
Dr Michael D. Hurley has written on why this a doubly important year for Victorian poet G. M. Hopkins: https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/the-inspired-scribblings-of-englands-finest-catholic-poet/
Continue ReadingYui Kajita’s essay ‘Hardy’s Questioning’ wins first place in the Thomas Hardy Association’s Student Essay Prize
Yui Kajita was awarded the winning place in the Thomas Hardy Association’s Student Essay Prize for her essay, ‘Hardy’s Questioning’, published in the most recent issue of the Hardy Review (vol. 20, no. 1): <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/1934-8908>. Her essay was judged by members of The Thomas Hardy Association’s Editorial Board, who commented that it is ‘a delightful […]
Continue ReadingYui Kajita gives invited lecture for the Walter de la Mare Society, Monday 26 November 2018
Yui Kajita gives an invited lecture for the Walter de la Mare Society at The London Review Bookshop on Monday, 26 November 2018 at 6.45 pm. The talk is titled, ‘”A lully of voices”: Haunting Echoes in Walter de la Mare and Thomas Hardy’. More details can be found on the Society’s website: <http://www.walterdelamare.co.uk>.
Continue ReadingMaterials Reading & Seminar Series presents: Sara Larsen / David Brazil, Saturday 17th November 2018, Faculty of English
The materials Reading and Seminar series is hugely excited to present Sara Larsen and David Brazil, on a special visit from Oakland, CA, stopping over at Cambridge, UK. Poets and scholars of Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, the Pauline tradition, Sappho, Christian communism, the Paris Commune, the Trojan war, riot grrrl, and more; co-editors of the legendary […]
Continue ReadingReadings by novelist Anna Moschovakis, artist Sharon Kivland, and translator Charlotte Collins, hosted by Dr Sophie Seita, Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, 19 November 2018, 7.30pm
Readings by novelist Anna Moschovakis, artist Sharon Kivland, and translator Charlotte Collins Hosted by Dr Sophie Seita Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio 19 November 2018, 7.30pm Anna Moschovakis is the author most recently of the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love (Coffee House Press, 2018). Her books of poetry include the James Laughlin […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael D. Hurley lectures at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Literature Festival, 10 November 2018
Dr Michael D. Hurley gives a lecture on ‘Wrestling with Hopkins’ at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Literature Festival, to be held at Stonyhurst College on 10th November.
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold delivers Plenary Lecture at ‘Working with Archives’, Quadrivium XIII , University of Glasgow, 10 November 2018
Dr Orietta da Rold delivers a Plenary Lecture entitled ‘From Pulp to Fictions: The Role of Paper Before Print’ at ‘Working with Archives’, AHRC Archives and Writing Lives Project and Quadrivium UK, University of Glasgow, 10 November 2018.
Continue ReadingDr Zoë Svendsen speaks at Season for Change COP24 Industry Briefing, National Theatre, 2 November 2018
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/season-for-change-cop24-industry-briefing-tickets-50219455744?platform=hootsuite COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and will take place from 3-14 December 2018, in Katowice, Poland.
Continue ReadingElrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and the Faculty of English are delighted to announce that Dr Rosalind Love has been elected to the Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon with effect from 1 October 2019, to succeed Professor Simon Keynes.
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