Dr Hazel Wilkinson – Junior Research Fellow in English at Fitzwilliam College – was amongst six winners from across the University of a Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award. The new awards have been set up to recognise and reward those who undertake quality engagement with research. Dr Wilkinson received a trophy and a personal cash prize of […]
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Junior Research Fellow Dr Hazel Wilkinson Awarded Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Visiting Fellowship in English and Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History
Dr Hazel Wilkinson, Junior Research Fellow in English, has been awarded a Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Visiting Fellowship in English Literature 2016-17 at the Bodleian Libraries. She has also been awarded the Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History by the American Printing History Association. Both awards are in support of work her new monograph on the Wild […]
Continue ReadingPhD Candidate Lotte Reinbold awarded David Almond Fellowship
Lotte Reinbold, PhD Candidate in English has been awarded a David Almond fellowship for research into ideas of the medieval in the writing of Diana Wynne Jones. The fellowship will allow Lotte to visit the archives of Seven Stories, a children’s literature museum in Newcastle, where she will have access to the Diana Wynne Jones papers, including manuscripts and personal correspondence. […]
Continue ReadingMLA Prize for Catherine Phillips for Hopkins Letters
The Modern Language Association of America today announced it will award the thirteenth Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters. The winning edition is The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, volumes 1 and 2: Correspondence, edited by R. K. R. Thornton, of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Catherine Phillips, […]
Continue ReadingPeter De Bolla Wins Robert Lowry Patten Award
We congratulate Professor Peter de Bolla, who has won the annual Robert Lowry Patten Award, awarded by the journal SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 for the most outstanding recent contribution to British literary studies of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. The award is for his book The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of […]
Continue ReadingNew Generation Thinker Awards
Cambridge English has won two of the BBC’s New Generation Thinker Awards for 2015, through Trinity College Fellow in English Joe Moshenska and Selwyn PhD student Clare Walker Gore. Joe Moshenska has worked on the importance of touch in religious and early scientific debates, the philosophical history of tickling and the reception of Chinese medicine […]
Continue ReadingIrene Samuel Memorial Award
Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642 (Oxford University Press), ed. Edward Jones, to which Faculty members Christopher Tilmouth and Andrew Zurcher both contributed chapters, has won the Milton Society of America’s Irene Samuel Memorial Award for 2013.
Continue ReadingMary Jacobus Awarded CBE
Professor Mary Jacobus, Professor of English and former Director of CRASSH, has been awarded a CBE for services to literary scholarship in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Our heartfelt congratulations to Professor Jacobus!
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