On Monday 16th December, Dr Sarah Dillon and postdoctoral researcher Dr Olivia Belton will participate in UNESCO’s first Global Literacy Design Forum at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The Forum will bring the general public together with leading Futures Literacy practitioners, designers, facilitators, teachers and researchers. The Forum has two primary objectives. One is to prepare […]
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Judith E Wilson Practice-Led Research Grants
Applications are invited from all Senior Members of the English Faculty (UTOs, CTOs, Postdocs and JRFs) for practice-led projects that support the longer-term research environment and the culture of the Faculty. These grants aim to bring together the academic study of drama and poetry with a particular emphasis on the work of contemporary practitioners in […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael Hurley awarded a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, for Trinity Term 2021
Dr Michael Hurley, Faculty of English and St Catharine’s College, has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, for Trinity Term 2021. https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/all-souls-college-oxford
Continue ReadingBACK TO THE FUTURE OF AL-ANDALUS: A POETRY READING AND CONVERSATION with PETER COLE, 5pm, Tuesday 12 November, English Faculty
MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole will read from his work and talk about the hybrid Hebrew poetry of Muslim Spain and its relevance for readers and writers today. Moving between eleventh-century Iberia and today’s Middle East and America, between translations and his own original English poems, Cole will take us into the heart of […]
Continue ReadingJohn Kerrigan gives a talk at Stanford University, 15 November 2019
On 15 November John Kerrigan will give a talk at Stanford University entitled ‘Cambridge and the Slave Trade’. Link to Stanford English News & Events
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Kennedy is this year’s recipient of the John Serio Award
Dr Sarah Kennedy is this year’s recipient of the John Serio Award, for her essay, “‘We reason of these things with a later reason’: Plain Sense and the Poetics of Relief in Eliot and Stevens”. The prize is awarded by a committee from the Board of The Wallace Stevens Journal, and recognises the best essay […]
Continue ReadingTHE BAD TRIP @ HEFFERS, CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday 6 November, 6.30pm
Join James Riley as he presents his new book, The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties at this special event hosted by Heffers, Cambridge. James will be discussing and reading from the book, there’ll be a Q+A as well as a signing session. Copies of the book will be […]
Continue Reading‘Taking Up Race: Women of Colour on Class, Colonialism and Whiteness in Oxbridge and Beyond’. Monday 11 November 2019, 5pm, LG18, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE: This event is now taking place in room LG18 on the ground floor of the Law Faculty. Five brilliant and accomplished women of colour will be speaking with honesty and clarity about the issues that matter in Cambridge and beyond. In addition to Afua Hirsch, speakers will include: Suhaiymah […]
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