Trudi Tate of Clare Hall gives a talk on ‘Women and Children, Love and Loss in To the Lighthouse. Presented by Literature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College. Tuesday 12 February 2019, 1.00 pm. You can get lunch in the college dining hall at 12.30, if you wish. Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge CB3 0BU. Free and […]

Dr Leo Mellor gave a response to Professor Glyn Salton-Cox’s lecture on “Scabs and Radicals: Toward a Cultural Morphology of the Lumpenproletariat” at the University of Freiburg on 5 February 2019. This is part of Dr Mellor’s ongoing project on ‘the long 1930s’. https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/data/events/guest-lecture-prof.-glyn-salton-cox-uc-santa-barbara-201cscabs-and-radicals-toward-a-cultural-morphology-of-the-lumpenproletariat201d

On Saturday 16 February the Faculty of English hosts ‘TRASH! Waste and Excess in Queer Cultures’, an interdisciplinary symposium exploring waste and excess in LGBTQ+ life and culture. Featuring contributions by leading scholars of literature, film, art history, and performance, it celebrates queer cultures’ remarkable, inventive employment of waste and garbage as artistic materials and […]

Ananya Mishra, a third year PhD candidate working on comparative indigenous literatures, has collaborated with Danika Parikh and Akshyeta Suryanarayan, graduate students in the Department of Archaeology,  to initiate ‘Untold Histories Museum Tours’ at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. These tours look into the difficult histories of how objects came to be in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dr Laura Wright is a Keynote Speaker at the Eleventh International Conference on Middle English, which takes place at the University of Florence,  5-8 February 2019.  The title of Dr Wright’s lecture is ‘On the Multilingual Background to Standard English’. https://www.icome11.unifi.it/index.php

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