Dr Moseley provides the introductory essay to the collection, as well as one of the chapters, ‘“Tu numeris elementa ligas”: The Consolation of Nature’s Numbers in Parlement of Foulys’. The collection also includes contributions from Professor Helen Cooper, Dr Alex da Costa, Dr Jackie Tasioulas, Professor Barry Windeatt. For further information: https://berghahnbooks.com/title/MoseleyEngaging
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Updates on the Present: Feminist Art Once More. Professor Peggy Phelan visits the Drama and Performance Seminars this week…
Professor Peggy Phelan, Ann O’Day Maples Professor, Stanford University, will be visiting us via Zoom to talk about: Updates on the Present: Feminist Art Once More. This seminar will take place via Zoom on Thursday 12th November at 5pm. The article used as the starting point for discussion and Zoom link to join the meeting […]
Continue ReadingCharles Moseley’s ‘Hungry Heart Roaming: an Odyssey of sorts’ is published by The Black Spring Press Group, November 2020
The theme of Charles Moseley’s new book is partly memory and inheritance, and particularly what it means to be an heir of European history. It’s about love, and loss, glory and grief, and it ends on a note of careful, paradoxical hope. For more information, see https://store.eyewearpublishing.com/collections/autumn-titles-2020/products/hungry-heart-roaming-an-odyssey-of-sorts
Continue ReadingDr Lisa Mullen contributes a chapter to ‘The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four’, ed. by Nathan Waddell (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Dr Lisa Mullen publishes a book chapter, ‘Orwell’s Literary Context: Modernism, Language, and Politics’, in The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four, ed. by Nathan Waddell (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Link for further information.
Continue ReadingJudith E Wilson Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents A Celebration of Indigenous North American Poetry and Language: Margaret Noodin (Ojibwe), Karenne Wood (Monacan) read by Adrienne Brown, Michelle Sylliboy (Mi’kmaq, L’nu). Tuesday 3 November, 4-5.30pm on Zoom. All welcome!
For further information about Margaret Noodin’s work: https://ojibwe.net/ For further information about Michelle Sylliboy’s work: https://msylliboy.wixsite.com/website
Continue ReadingDr Lisa Mullen writes and presents ‘Sunday Feature: Sloe Time’, Radio 3, broadcast 4/10/2020
Written and presented by Lisa Mullen and featuring an interview with Rob Macfarlane, this feature for R3 examined the cultural history and ecological entanglements of the often overlooked blackthorn – a hedgerow species which has been used in medicine and gin-making, is prized by woodworkers for its toughness, and is associated with superstitions and folk […]
Continue ReadingBBC National Short Story Award in partnership with Cambridge University
The winners of the National Short Story Award and the Young Writers Award were announced on Radio 4’s Front Row programme on 6th October. Sarah Hall won the NSSA for the second time with her story ‘The Grotesque’, while Lottie Mills – currently a second year undergraduate in English at Cambridge – won the Young […]
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