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.
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Dr 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.
Continue ReadingLiterature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College host free talk on two previously unpublished sketches written by Virginia Woolf in 1931, 30 October 2018
Free talks on Virginia Woolf and her Contemporaries, hosted by Literature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College. 30 October 2018, 1.00 pm: Clara Jones will talk on Woolf’s lost sketches from 1931. Town and Gown all welcome. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/virginia-woolf-talks/ *
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate and Dr Isobel Maddison organise all-day reading of ‘To the Lighthouse’, 14 October 2018
Trudi Tate and Isobel Maddison organised an all-day reading of Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse, Sunday 14 October 2018. Another all-day reading is planned for October 2019: probably of The Waves (1931). https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-past-talks
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate lectures at ‘World War I: Lifting the Shadow’, a First World War centenary conference organised by the York Quakers, 6 October 2018
Dr Trudi Tate gave a keynote paper on ‘The Hidden Legacies of War’ at a one-day conference exploring the legacies of World War I and the lessons of the past. The conference was organised by the York Quakers and took place on 6 October 2018, http://www.yorkquakers.org.uk/ww1conferences.html
Continue ReadingDr Kasia Boddy interviews Man Booker International Prize-winner, Olga Tokarczuk, Wednesday 17 October 2018
Dr Kasia Boddy interviews Olga Tokarczuc, winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Literature, as part of the Cambridge Literary Festival, 6.30pm, Wednesday 17 October, Heffers Bookshop.
Continue ReadingPOETRY READING featuring JOHN BALABAN and SARAH HOWE, 5.30pm, Wednesday 24 October, Pembroke College
POETRY READING featuring JOHN BALABAN and SARAH HOWE 5.30 to 7pm on Weds 24th October in the Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College Open to all. Free of charge. Free wine. Poet Bios JOHN BALABAN <http://www.johnbalaban.com/> is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of […]
Continue Reading“Concerning the Novel Chapter”, Nicholas Dames, Columbia University, Wednesday 14 November 2018, 5.30pm, GR05, Faculty of English
What does the fictional chapter do? Why do novels have them and how have they changed? This talk will propose the chapter — among the most innocuous and pervasive of the novel’s formal features — as a new object of analysis, and offer suggestions on what methods are appropriate in order to approach a phenomenon so ubiquitous and so […]
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