Kasia Boddy, Bonnie Lander Johnson and Claudia Tobin have been awarded an IAA (AHRC) grant to share their research on sanctuary gardens with public audiences in London and Cambridge. Events include talks about the history and literature of sanctuary, writing workshops in Sue Stuart-Smith’s sanctuary garden, an exhibition at the Garden Museum London and a […]

Katrin Ettenhuber’s new book is the first major study of the role of logic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature.  It explores how major authors of the period, including Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Spenser, and Sidney, conceived of the arts of thinking and argument, and how they creatively appropriated and transformed logical concepts and ideas in […]

Olivia Krauze has co-translated and co-directed Jean-Luc Lagarce’s 1994 play J’étais dans ma maison et j’attendais que la pluie vienne (I was in the house and I was waiting for the rain to come) for what will be its UK English-language premiere at the Corpus Playroom, Cambridge, 31st October-4th November. The project combines translation, movement, and original […]

What is a dramaturg? What is dramaturgy? What are the political implications for the way that plays produce meaning in performance? Over the last decade, the role of the dramaturg has become more common in the theatrical process, but it is still a new term for many theatre-goers. Theatre & Dramaturgy offers a working definition […]

Studying English at Cambridge The Faculty of English is holding two online study evenings on Wednesday 8th and Wednesday 15th November 2023. The events are aimed at A Level, IB or Scottish Higher English Literature students who may be considering studying English at university. If you are in Year 11 and thinking about taking English […]

This event will celebrate the publication of Baroque Latinity: Studies in the Neo-Latin Literature of the European Baroque, ed. Jacqueline Glomski, Gesine Manuwald and Andrew Taylor (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), an essay collection marking the culmination of an AHRC-funded project based at UCL. Booking for the free event at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2023/nov/ias-book-launch-hybrid-baroque-latinity  

Prize judge Marianne Tatepo, Commissioning Editor for Ebury Press and Pop Press (Penguin Random House UK), said: “We stepped into the world of Silthood, where nature comes to life in an almost anthropomorphic way. It’s a stunning, original, genre-bending entry in the non-fiction category.” Jade Cuttle, formerly of Barlby High school and York College, says: […]

“The Pleasures of Hating 1660-1830”, a conference co-convened by PhD students Francesca Gardner and Daniel Brooks, is being held in the Trinity College OCR on November 18th. This will be especially relevant to those who are researching the history of emotions. Registration details and schedule can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-pleasures-of-hating-1660-1830-registration-730845306987?aff=oddtdtcreator

Essays and reflections include contributions from His Majesty King Charles III, Lord Rowan Williams, Cyril O’Regan, Sr. Catherine Droste, OP, the late Rev. Dr. Ian Ker, Leonie Caldecott, Giuseppe Pezzini, and more. Special thanks to the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory for allowing the use of this rare photograph of Newman for the journal cover. […]

A series of revelatory hallucinations that Philip K Dick experienced in 1974, radically altering his view of belief, time and history, were the inspiration for his quasi-autobiographical novel Valis which was published in 1981. Professor Sarah Dillon joins Prof Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck) and presenter Matthew Sweet on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking on Thursday 19th […]