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Hughes’ love of fishing was to his approach to poetry and life, first came across mention of Barrie Cooke in Hughes’s unpublished fishing diaries in the British Library.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 […]
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