MATERIALS SEMINAR & READING SERIES Email David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk) for details Saturday, February 24th Sean Bonney Reading and Seminar UK launch of GHOSTS Sean Bonney will give a paper on Amiri Baraka at 16:00 in GR06/07, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, and a reading at 20:00 in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio. This will […]
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2017-18 issue of ‘9 West Road’ now available
The 2017-18 issue of the English Faculty Magazine, 9 West Road, is now available on the Faculty website: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter/9westroad17.pdf
Continue ReadingDr Alison Wood convenes British Academy Funded Network on Critical University Studies, January 2018
How can Universities better serve the public good? Dr Alison Wood (English/CRASSH) has won a British Academy Rising Stars Engagement Award (£14,500) to convene a research network on Critical University Studies (CUS). 20 early career researchers from 13 institutions and 10 disciplines are gathering to consider how Critical University Studies – and so also Universities […]
Continue ReadingThe Alchemical Landscape Research Seminar @ CRASSH, University of Cambridge, Lent 2018
The Alchemical Landscape Research Seminar continues at CRASSH. This term’s programme includes talks by artists, writers, academics and film-makers: Sarah Turner (University of Kent) Polyphonic Cinema 5pm 30 January 2018, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Karl Bell (Portsmouth) Supernatural Cities: Urban Mindscapes and Academic Liminality 13 February 2018, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building […]
Continue ReadingCall For Papers : ‘Attention and Distraction’, deadline extended until 15 February
We’re very pleased to announce Cambridge University’s annual student-organised graduate conference on literature before 1750, to be held on Friday, April 20, 2018. Our conference theme, ‘Attention and Distraction’, draws on recent work in the history of reading and cognition to ask what it means to ‘attend’ to a text, from the medieval period to […]
Continue ReadingLiterature Cambridge presents Summer Courses, July 2018
1-6 July 2018. Literature Cambridge presents Virginia Woolf and Politics summer course, Wolfson College. A week’s immersion in Woolf’s writings, with leading scholars. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/2018/. 8-13 July 2018. Literature Cambridge presents Women Writers: Emily Bronte to Elizabeth Bowen summer course, Homerton College. A week’s intensive study of 5 great women writers, with lectures, supervisions, excursions, readings, […]
Continue ReadingLaura McCormick Kilbride and Orla Polten edit special edition of The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (Fall 2017)
Laura McCormick Kilbride and Orla Polten have edited a special issue of The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, dedicated to exploring the significance of Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads on the 150th year anniversary of its publication, also containing an article by Faculty PhD candidate Oliver Goldstein. Issue contents: http://jprs.apps01.yorku.ca/journal/volume-26-fall-2017/
Continue ReadingDr Laura McCormick Kilbride delivers plenary lecture at ‘The Poetics of Faith: Exploring Belief in Modern and Contemporary Poetry’, January 2018
Laura McCormick Kilbride delivers a plenary lecture at ‘The Poetics of Faith: Exploring Belief in Modern and Contemporary Poetry’ conference, held at the University of York, 12-14 January 2018. Conference website: https://poetryandfaith.wordpress.com
Continue ReadingLiterature Cambridge presents Literature Study Days at Stapleford Granary
Literature Study Days at Stapleford Granary. Lectures by Cambridge academics, open to the public. Booking essential. Sunday 18 February 2018, 2-6.30pm, Stapleford Granary, CB22 5BP, Literature Cambridge presents Reading Tennyson. £50/£45 students. Lectures, readings and discussion with Ewan Jones and Oliver Goldstein. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/tennyson/ Saturday 17 March 2018. 2-5.30pm, Stapleford Granary, CB22 5BP, Literature Cambridge presents […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael D. Hurley and Dr Marcus Waithe: co-editors of ‘Thinking through Style’, published January 2018
‘Thinking through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century’, edited by Dr Michael D. Hurley and Dr Marcus Waithe, is published by Oxford University Press on 11 January 2018 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thinking-through-style-9780198737827?cc=gb&lang=en&
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