Symposium, Homerton College, 9-11 June 2023. Free (via EventBrite; link below)   ‘Overcoming Class Barriers at Cambridge’   This symposium aims to draw focus onto the experiences of students and academics from non-traditional, and in particular working-class, social backgrounds. Definitions of this are fluid, but would commonly include being first-generation, state-educated, and perhaps from schools/communities […]

FOUR CUT SUNFLOWERS AT CORPUS PLAYROOM    https://www.adctheatre.com/sunflowers  15th and 17th June 2023, 9:30pm Preview shows for the Official Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club Edinburgh Fringe Play 2023 Four Cut Sunflowers:  Van Gogh, stock image ‘ When light and dark converge, it is an act of creation…’.  It’s the mid-19th century and Europe is being transformed by […]

Dr Leo Mellor will speak at the University of Regensburg on June 7th on: ‘The Apocalyptic Pastoral: the significance of Richard Jefferies’ After London; or Wild England (1885). The lecture traces a strand of British literature and art in the twentieth-century, one which used the visionary nature of Jefferies’ thought experiment and imagined other cities […]

Congratulations to Louise Joy for being Highly Commended for Student Support (Academic) in the CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards 2023: The ceremony was held at St Barnabas Church, Cambridge on Tuesday 16th May. https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article/cambridgesu/SLTA-Winners-announced/  

What‘s Critical About Critical Bibliography?: A discussion launching a special issue of Criticism edited by Kate Ozment and Lisa Maruca. Featuring an article by Dr Georgina Wilson,Research Fellow in Early Modern English Literature, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge 20 June, 5pm-6.15pm, BST. Online Registration https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/7XlM2tyS82WvvQDjJf_Vcg?t=1683643754

Mark Wormald is in Ireland to give three talks to mark the paperback publication of The Catch. Tuesday 2 May – University College Cork Thursday 4 May – Lexicon Dún Laoghaire Thursday 25 May – Seamus Heaney HomePlace at Bellaghy.  Link for further information and tickets: The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes with Mark Wormald […]

Reem Abbas’s MPhil thesis (graduated 2020) has won the Review of English Studies Essay Prize 2022. The print article is called ‘A “Polyphonic Score”: Basil Bunting’s Persian Condensations’ and can be read here. Reem Abbas is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English and Jesus College.

Bonnie Lander Johnson gives the Ushaw Lecture at Durham University. She spoke about the forgotten women of the Catholic Literary Revival and how their life and work challenge our definition of modernist coterie. Link to further information: Ushaw Lecture May 2023 – Durham University

Poetry and Politics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Jesus College Free and open to all; from 11am to 4pm daily. The Marshall Room at Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL Coleridge – poet, philosopher, critic, visionary, and one of Cambridge’s most famous students. He arrived at Jesus College in 1791, and left three years later without receiving […]