A call for papers has been put out for the 2022 post-1750 graduate conference: ‘‘What Does the Poem Think?’: Aesthetics, Poetics and Thought’. Taking its lead from Percy Shelley’s assertion that poetry ‘marks the before unapprehend relations of things’, the call for papers asks respondents to consider the ways and means in which poetry apprehends, […]

Link to Meena Venkataramanan’s author profile of Jean Chen Ho: ‘Are you a Fiona or a Jane? Jean Chen Ho’s debut captures a bittersweet L.A. friendship’ Meena Venkataramanan is an M.Phil. Candidate in English Studies in the Faculty of English and Pembroke College, and is a Gates Cambridge Scholar.

Starting in late January, CRASSH hosts a podcast (and accompanying live Q&A and discussion sessions) titled “Distributed Cognition and Music: Listening with and beyond the Body”. The convenor, Maral Attar-Zadeh  and the working group participating in the discussion sessions are all members of the Faculty of English, though the series is interdisciplinary in nature and […]

Link to listen to the podcast episode. The Space Between is a society for the study of literature and culture of the period between the First and Second World Wars. It provides an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum for discussion and research of texts, authors and new approaches to traditionally canonical works. It also encourages fresh […]

Dr Trudi Tate was commissioned to write the programme notes for the English National Ballet’s production of Alexander Glazunov’s Raymonda. The company have changed the setting of the ballet from the Crusades to the Crimean War. The heroine in this version goes to the war to work with Florence Nightingale. Raymonda is due to be performed […]