Film Screening: ‘Now Circa (1918)’ directed by Redell Olsen, produced by Drew Milne – Friday 8 February 2019, 5pm, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, McCrum Theatre, off Benet Street. All welcome

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Film Screening: ‘Now Circa (1918)’ directed by Redell Olsen February 8th, 2019, 5.00 pm. McCrum Theatre, off Benet Street, Cambridge (behind the Eagle pub) ‘Now Circa (1918)’ was written and directed by Redell Olsen, produced by Drew Milne, and starring Catherine Lord, Caitlin Doherty, Saskia West, and Sophie Gilmartin. The screening […]

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‘”Nothing Ever Just Disappears”: Innovative Queer Writing in America in the 1980s’ – lecture by Dr Diarmuid Hester for Cambridge Queer History Month, 4 February 2019, 6pm, Howard Theatre, Downing College

Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) will give a lecture for Cambridge Queer History Month on 4th February 2019 called, ‘”Nothing Ever Just Disappears”: Innovative Queer Writing in America in the 1980s’. It’s free and takes place in the Howard Theatre, Downing College at 6pm. More information available here: https://www.facebook.com/events/135620190712146/ The event is organised […]

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‘A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets’, by David Grundy – forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic on 7 February 2019

A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic on 7th February 2019.   “A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings […]

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‘Reading Dylan Thomas’, edited by Edward Allen, published by Edinburgh University Press, December 2018

Reading Dylan Thomas has been published by Edinburgh University Press. It features essays by several academics in Cambridge – Deborah Bowman, Leo Mellor, and Rod Mengham – as well as an introduction by its editor, Edward Allen. The cover art is the work of India Lewis, who read English at Jesus College. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading-dylan-thomas.html

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Ahead of giving the Clark Lectures 2019, Professor Andrew Cole (Princeton) talks to Trinity Fellows, Dr Ross Wilson and Dr Phil Knox

Professor Andrew Cole, Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton, will give the Clark Lectures 2019 at Trinity. Here he is in conversation with Trinity Fellows, Dr Ross Wilson and Dr Phil Knox: https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/unmodernism-the-clark-lectures-2019/ UNMODERNISM  – THE CLARK LECTURES 2019 BY PROFESSOR ANDREW COLE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 1.Hegel in the Cathedral (28 January, lecture) […]

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