Dr May Hawas’s Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public has been awarded the Balakian Prize 2022. According to the jury, “Hawas’s book is a critical work of remarkable originality that is consistently analytical and argumentative in its presentation of ideas, with a strong comparative perspective”. Link to announcement about the prize. Link to […]
Continue ReadingMonth: June 2022
The film ‘Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War’, co-produced by David Trotter, featured in today’s Guardian
Link to Guardian feature: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/24/he-died-in-his-30s-living-the-life-he-had-dreamed-of-artist-eric-ravilious
Continue ReadingMark Wormald reads from his new book ‘The Catch’ at St Mark’s Church, Primrose Hill, Tuesday 5 July
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Continue ReadingChurchill College, the Faculty of English, and the Marlowe Society are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Poetry Prize, and the ‘Other’ Prize for Drama
The 2022 John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Poetry Prize was won by Gabriel Rolfe (Magdalene College) for the poem Nullarbor. The 2022 ‘Other’ Prize for Drama was won by Maddie Lynes (St Catharine’s College) for the play Her Very Many Faces, whilst Eyoel Abebaw-Mesfin (Fitzwilliam College) was commended as the runner-up for the play My […]
Continue ReadingMark Wormald reads from his new book ‘The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes’, Stockbridge, Friday 17 June
Mark Wormald took part in a joint reading with David Profumo, author of the fishing memoir The Lightning Thread, in Stockbridge on Friday 17 June. Mark read from his new book The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes, which was published by Bloomsbury on 28 April. Link to further information about the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-profumo-and-mark-wormald-book-reading-and-signing-tickets-344823144307
Continue ReadingMark Wormald in conversation with Robert Macfarlane, Pembroke College, 23 June 2022
Mark Wormald will speak about his new book, The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes, rivers and environmental issues, in conversation with Robert Macfarlane. The audience will be predominantly Pembroke students and Fellows, but the conversation will be filmed, and an edited version will be made available for those unable to attend, and more widely.
Continue ReadingNew evidence calls into question Chaucer’s translation of the Romance of the Rose: article by Conor Mckee in ‘The Chaucer Review’
Conor McKee’s article in this month’s issue of The Chaucer Review indicates major problems with the view that Chaucer is responsible for the surviving Middle English translation of the Romance of the Rose. Whilst the latter parts of the text have long been considered dubious, the first 1705 lines were widely held as authentically Chaucerian […]
Continue ReadingConor McKee writes about Robert Southwell’s literal approach to metaphor in ‘Renaissance Studies’, June 2022
Conor McKee’s article in Renaissance Studies considers the use of metaphor in the work of sixteenth-century poet and martyr Robert Southwell. He argues that a number of Southwell’s metaphors have a surprisingly literal quality whereby their vehicles are given greater prominence than their tenors. For instance, looking at Southwell’s presentation of the figurative ‘fires of […]
Continue Reading‘Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War’, co-produced by David Trotter, featuring Robert Macfarlane
June 29th, 6.15pm at Arts Picturehouse: Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War. Special Screening followed by Q&A with director Margy Kinmonth and Robert Macfarlane. Co-produced by David Trotter, the film concerns the life and art of the great landscape painter Eric Ravilious, one of only three British war artists to be killed on active service during […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Subha Mukherji wins a Global Humanities Initiative Award
Subha Mukherji wins a Global Humanities Initiative Award (with Martin Crowley, MML), to start a collaborative teaching and research programme on Migrant Ecologies with Ashoka University, New Delhi, September 2022. Link to Global Humanities Mobility Scheme webpage for further information: https://globalhumanities.org/mobility-scheme/
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