Lewis Roberts, PhD candidate at St John’s College, has won a competitive Stephen Copley Award from the British Association of Romantic Studies to complete research at the Dove Cottage Archives into the manuscript history of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poems. Lewis’s PhD project is a study of the line-ending in poetry of the long nineteenth century, […]
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‘Marvels and Miracles’, the 23rd Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, takes place on 5 February 2022
The Cambridge Colloquium for Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2022 will be held on Saturday 5th February, with a range of exciting talks grouped around the theme ‘Marvels and Miracles’. This annual graduate conference held within the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic department showcases medieval research and offers an opportunity for graduate scholars covering several subject areas and […]
Continue ReadingCall for papers for the 2022 graduate conference: ‘‘What Does the Poem Think?’: Aesthetics, Poetics and Thought’
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, […]
Continue ReadingMeena Venkataramanan writes an author profile of Jean Chen Ho for the L.A. Times, January 2022
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.
Continue ReadingSubmissions open for 2022 BBC National Short Story and BBC Young Writers’ Awards
The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) and BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University (YWA) open for submissions at 9am on Thursday 13th January 2022 with award-winning novelist, journalist and broadcaster Elizabeth Day chairing the judging panel for the BBC NSSA, an award that has enriched both the careers of […]
Continue ReadingMaral Attar-Zadeh convenes CRASSH podcast: “Distributed Cognition and Music: Listening with and beyond the Body”
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 […]
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan talks to ‘The Space Between’ about representations of Poland in interwar British literature
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 […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate writes programme notes for English National Ballet’s production of ‘Raymonda’
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 […]
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