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 […]
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Dr 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
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan publishes an article in Engelsberg Ideas, September 2022
The article, ‘An unlikely artistic alliance: the wartime Britons who saved and celebrated German art’, is about a little-known exhibition of Mid-European Art in Leicester in 1944 which led to the creation of a permanent exhibition of German Expressionist works (including by Franz Marc and Käthe Kollwitz) in the city. Link to the article: An […]
Continue ReadingFive young writers shortlisted for the BBC / Cambridge Young Writers Award were welcomed last week for an experience day
They were given writing workshops from Rupert Wallis and Nick Bradley of ICE/Madingley Hall, a tour of Newnham College, and a session in the rare books room of the University Library. The winner of both the YWA and the National short story Prize will be announced on Tuesday 4th October in Broadcasting House, London. Here […]
Continue ReadingGraham Storey Lecture, Monday 24 October 2022
The 2022 Graham Storey Lecture will be held on 24 October at 5.15pm in Lady Mitchell Hall on the Sidgwick Site. This year’s lecture, “Art & Political Ecology: Extraction” will be given by Hazel V Carby, the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies […]
Continue ReadingRadical Art in Cambridge hosts a roundtable discussion, 5pm-7pm, Wednesday 26 October
The Radical Art in Cambridge research group (Lucy Howie, Alina Khakoo and Amy Tobin) is delighted to host a roundtable discussion on Wednesday 26 October, 5–7pm in the Faculty of English. This event will map the lost history of experimental art making and organising in Cambridge in the 1980s. It will focus on arts organisations in and […]
Continue ReadingBritish Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications (Deadline: 15 Aug 2022)
The Faculty of English and Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic welcome applications for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships. About the British Academy fellowships: The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship offers outstanding early career researchers the opportunity to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in an academic environment. The scheme aims to help develop the award […]
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