The Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity are holding a joint online study evening on Thursday 28th January 2021, 6pm-7pm. The event is aimed at students in Years 11 and 12 with an interest in literature, performance, theology, religion, and philosophy of religion – especially those who may be considering studying these subjects […]
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Dr Helen Thaventhiran and Professor Stefan Collini have published the first scholarly edition of William Empson’s ‘The Structure of Complex Words and Related Writings’
This edition reprints Empson’s classic work of literary criticism and related shorter writings, with full critical and textual commentaries. For further information: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/william-empson-the-structure-of-complex-words-9780198713432?cc=gb&lang=en&
Continue ReadingOlive Schreiner Centenary Workshop, an online roundtable and discussion hosted by the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, on Monday 14 December 2020, 14:00-15:30 (GMT) / 16:00-17:30 (SAST)
On 11 December 1920, the South African writer, novelist and intellectual Olive Schreiner, aged 65, died in her sleep in the historic port city of Cape Town. Buried in the former mining town of Kimberley, Schreiner was later to be exhumed and buried atop Buffelskop Mountain near Cradock—where she wrote at least a significant part […]
Continue ReadingLaura McCormick Kilbride wins CHRGS funding for online archive to digitise David Jones’ letters to Jim Ede at Kettle’s Yard, as part of the David Jones Digital Archive
Digitizing David Jones’ letters to Jim Ede at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge as part of the David Jones Digital Archive In June 2021 a collaboration between the David Jones Research Center and the Faculty of English in the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Kettle’s Yard Gallery and Cambridge Digital Humanities Learning Programme will begin work […]
Continue ReadingDr Mark Wormald is interviewed about how Pembroke College came to acquire the archive of Irish expressionist painter Barrie Cooke (1931-2014)
Pembroke Fellow Dr Mark Wormald, who has closely studied how central Ted Hughes’ love of fishing was to his approach to poetry and life, first came across mention of Barrie Cooke in Hughes’s unpublished fishing diaries in the British Library. This mention prompted Dr Wormald to visit Barrie Cooke in Ireland, which is when the […]
Continue Reading‘Women Beat Poets and the Naropa Archive: Rewriting an American Experimental Lineage’, filmmaker Melody London in conversation with poet Emma Gomis, A Re- Interdisciplinary Network screening/seminar, via Zoom, Tuesday 1 December, 5pm
‘Women Beat Poets and the Naropa Archive: Rewriting an American Experimental Lineage’ Filmmaker Melody London in conversation with poet Emma Gomis A Re- Interdisciplinary Network online screening/seminar (via Zoom) Tuesday 1 December, 5pm-6.30pm For further information about the event: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29478 To register, contact: clef3@cam.ac.uk Filmmaker Melody London will screen excerpts from and discuss her current feature documentary-in-progress, the untold story of the […]
Continue ReadingAnanya Mishra’s presentation, ‘Of Mountains and Seeds’, has been published by Cambridge Open Engage as part of the inaugural Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival, November 2020
Ananya Mishra is a postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge Faculty of English and Corpus Christi College. To read the abstract of Ananya Mishra’s presentation and listen to the recording: https://www-cambridge-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/engage/coe/article-details/5fac6ff1c207cd0019cb1141 The Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival offers eight days of online events structured around the COP26 themes: Energy Transitions, Zero Carbon Transport, Finance, […]
Continue ReadingDr Diarmuid Hester, one of the BBC’s New Generation Thinkers for 2020, has contributed a piece on tattooing and literature for BBC Radio 3’s popular Words & Music programme
Focusing on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the tattooed Pacific Islander Queequeg, the piece will be read by an actor and is part of a special episode on The Body. It airs on Sunday 29 November at 5.30pm. Use this link to tune in or catch up: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pvbq
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe has published a new book: ‘The Ins and Outs of Public Lettering: Kindersley Inscriptions in the Open’
‘The Ins and Outs of Public Lettering’, written by Marcus Waithe, Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley and Thomas Sherwood, looks at works by The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop in public spaces. For further information: http://www.kindersleyworkshop.co.uk/shop/the-ins-and-outs-of-public-lettering.php
Continue ReadingAcclaimed Actress and Director, Lisa Dwan, visits the Drama and Performance Seminar this week…to talk ‘A Body of Beckett’
Lisa Dwan, Princeton’s Long-term Visiting Professor, will be visiting us via Zoom to talk about: A Body of Beckett. This seminar will take place via Zoom on Thursday 26th November at 5pm. A Zoom link to join the meeting can be accessed via the Drama and Performance Seminar Moodle Page or email ew513@cam.ac.uk
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