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 […]

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 […]

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/

Subha Mukherji gives an invited talk on ‘The poetics of hypokrisis and the ethics of emotion in early modern theatres of law’, at the Annual conference of the Association for Law, Culture and the Humanities, at Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia. Link to conference website: https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/2022-conference/

Pop up Judith E Wilson Poetry Event! Come and join a pop-up poetry reading event in honour of this year’s Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow, Jeanne Heuving. Wednesday 8th June, 5 pm. – 7 pm. SR24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge. All welcome. Jeanne Heuving will read from her work, along with readings […]

Jill Damatac will be giving a paper at ‘Rethinking Resistance’, an Interdisciplinary Conference organised by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).  The title of the paper is ‘Queered, Feminised Resistance in Contemporary Filipino American literatures’. Jill Damatac is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of English and Selwyn College. Link to further information […]

SAFFRON GLOBAL HISTORY, CAMBRIDGE STORIES 11 June 2022,  9.30am-5.15pm Alison Richard Building,  7  West Road Convenors Kasia Boddy Bonnie Lander Johnson Alice Wickenden This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to explore the history of saffron cultivation and use – both globally and more locally. It is very unusual for a crop that flourishes in Crete, Kashmir and […]

The Faculty of English will be taking part in the University of Cambridge Hybrid Open Days on Thursday 7 July and Friday 8 July 2022. The hybrid approach offers prospective applicants the chance to visit the University of Cambridge in person if they wish to, alongside offering webinars, events and videos for students to learn […]

The outstanding research produced by members of the Faculty has been recognised in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) results, published today (12th May). The REF is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. The Faculty submitted samples of the work of 108 colleagues, at all career stages across […]