Working with Film Archives: a Decolonial Approach Thu, 27 October 2022, 16:00 – 19:00 BST Faculty of English Drama Studio (basement level) Faculty of English Cambridge CB3 9DP ‘Working with Film Archives: a Decolonial Approach’ is a Workshop featuring the films of two documentarians. We will be screening Ilana Navaro’s Josephine Baker: Une Icone Noire […]
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Conference announcement: ‘The Functions of Criticism’, 19-20 May 2023, University of Cambridge.
‘The Functions of Criticism’ will be a two-day conference held on 19-20 May 2023, at the University of Cambridge. The keynotes will be Rita Felski (University of Virginia), Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University), and Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge), with further speakers to be announced. This event will be an interdisciplinary conference exploring questions of function, […]
Continue ReadingProf Angela Leighton, Dr Anna Nickerson, and Dr Yui Kajita publish ‘Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals’ (Liverpool University Press, 2022)
This volume provides a major assessment of the work of Walter de la Mare, and promises to restore his reputation as one of the most memorably haunting of poets, as well as a peculiarly unnerving writer of ghost stories. The collection includes wide-ranging essays on de la Mare’s poetry, stories, novels, reviews, and lectures, as well as […]
Continue ReadingDr Anna Nickerson lectures on ‘G. M. Hopkins and the Intellectual Life’ at the Hopkins Weekend, Stonyhurst College, 15 October 2022
Link to further information: https://hopkinssocietyuk.co.uk/2022/03/19/stonyhurst-weekend/
Continue ReadingLeverhulme Early Career Fellowship Scheme 2023 – Now Open (deadline 19th December 2022)
The Faculty of English and Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic welcome applications from potential applicants for the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Scheme 2023. The Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (ECF) is a highly prestigious and competitive, post-doctoral award for researchers who are near the start of their career. The Leverhulme Trust awards approximately 143 three-year […]
Continue ReadingMina Gorji reads from her new collection at Waterstones, Cambridge, 6pm, Thursday 6 October
In celebration of National Poetry Day, Waterstones, Cambridge, will be hosting a poetry reading with a number of local authors including their headline poet, Mina Gorji. The reading will be followed by a 30 minute open mic session. The National Poetry Day theme for 2022 is ‘The Environment’. All are welcome but booking is required. […]
Continue ReadingThe winner of the 2022 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University to be announced on Tuesday 4 October
The names on the shortlist are: Kerry Andrew, Jenn Ashworth, Anna Bailey, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Saba Sams Jenn Ashworth, an alum of the Cambridge English Faculty and Professor of Creative Writing at Lancaster University, has this year published her fourth novel, Ghosted. Link to further information about the shortlisters: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3mQlv5FsMJPkqwmFw1wMDlW/meet-the-shortlist-2022
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