The National University of Ireland honorary degree conferring ceremony took place on Tuesday 7 March 2023. Professor Clair Wills was awarded an Honorary Degree for her exceptional contribution to scholarship in the area of Irish Studies, cultural history, and Irish Literature. Link to the citation by Anne Enright, published in the Irish Times: Clair Wills: […]

Link to the recording, which is currently available on BBC Sounds: Poetry Please – Bhanu Kapil – BBC Sounds

On March 6, Bhanu Kapil gives a reading from a forthcoming book, Incubation: a space for monsters, for Bangor University. Link to further details about this event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bhanu-kapil-reading-and-discussion-tickets-560340121387

The Faculty of English, Cambridge Festival, 18th March – 2nd April              

To mark the publication of online catalogues of a remarkable collection of material by and relating to Ted Hughes at his alma mater Pembroke College Cambridge, Mark Wormald and Robert Macfarlane talk about Mark’s recent book The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes (Bloomsbury, 2022) and about poetry, fishing and Hughes’s passionate advocacy for wild fish […]

Prof. Michael Hurley lectures on ‘How to be Superstitious’ Lancaster University, 15 March 2023: Professor Hurley will address the Literature & Religion Reading Group. Modern society likes to think it is governed by entirely rational, evidence-based beliefs. But is this true? Or even desirable? Professor Hurley’s lecture explores the nature and counterintuitive value of ‘superstition’, […]

Owned by Everyone? The Wonder, Plight and Future of Chalk Streams is an interdisciplinary conference on the culture, science and future of chalk streams, taking place 30-31 March 2023. Organised with  partners the NGO WildFish Conservation, the conference is co-hosted by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative and Pembroke College. As part of the Cambridge Festival, the […]

Edward’s Boys, an all-boy theatre company comprising students from King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon (“Shakespeare’s School”), have received critical praise and popular success as a result of their work exploring the repertoire of the boys’ companies from the early modern period. This rarely performed city comedy is the company’s fourth staging of Middleton, following A Mad […]

Lewis Roberts, PhD candidate in English at St John’s College, Cambridge, and supervisor for the Faculty, has been awarded the Jane Eliza Procter Fellowship at Princeton University for the academic year 2023-2024. Lewis will use this time at Princeton to work on historical poetics, including a critical appraisal of this method for the study of […]

Romanticism and the Black Atlantic 7.30pm-8.45pm on Tuesday 21 March West Court, Jesus College In the wake of calls to decolonise the curriculum, what is the Romantic period’s legacy in our own time? Romanticism is best known as a movement celebrating political and imaginative liberty – the human mind freeing itself from the shackles of […]