Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at an international conference at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, 26th-28th April. The conference is entitled ‘Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English’ and Dr Dillon will be speaking on David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas and its film adaptation in relation to memetics and theories of cultural evolution.
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Dr Sarah Dillon Discusses SF and Religion on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief
On Monday 13th March, Dr Sarah Dillon will join presenter Robert Beckford on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief to discusses the role of religion in science fiction with Aliette de Bodard, a writer with an interest in the interplay between science fiction and religion, and Roz Kaveney, a writer, poet and critic.
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Presents Radio 4 ‘Seeing is Believing’ Mars Documentary
On Monday 6th March at 11am on BBC Radio 4, Dr Sarah Dillon will present the first in a three part documentary series exploring literary and scientific imaginings of Mars. Seeing is Believing is Episode 1 of We Are the Martians, and will be available to listen again on the BBC iplayer. […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon talks to the Times Higher about the launch of BACLS
Dr Sarah Dillon gives an interview to the Times Higher about the launch of the new British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies which she will Chair from January 2018. BACLS opens for membership in January 2017 with the following mission statement: The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies brings together scholars and practitioners from across the […]
Continue ReadingThree New Titles Published in Dr Sarah Dillon’s Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays Book Series
On Thursday 8th December 2016 from 6.30-9pm the Centre for Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, will kindly host the book launch for three new titles in Dr Sarah Dillon’s Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays book series with the publisher Gylphi. The titles in the Series are devoted to contemporary Anglophone writers whose work is popularly […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Page Plenary Talk on Performance, Imagination and the Early-Romantic Guitar
Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at a conference on Performing Knowledge being held at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on April 25-26, 2016. Bringing together performing musicians engaging in practice-led research, ethnographers of Western art music, and psychologists specialising in tacit knowledge research, this two-day conference explores performers’ interpretative processes and their uses of tacit knowledge […]
Continue ReadingBBC Academy Blog: Dr Sarah Dillon on balancing academia and broadcasting
In a new blog for the BBC Academy website, Dr Sarah Dillon – 2013 BBC New Generation Thinker and now presenter of Close Reading on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book and BBC Radio 3’s documentary series Literary Pursuits – reflects on the challenges and rewards of balancing broadcasting and academia.
Continue ReadingDr Jason E Scott-Warren at Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Boston
Dr Scott-Warren represents the Cambridge Centre for Material Texts at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March 31 to April 2 2016. Dr Scott-Warren presents a paper on Cut-and-Paste Bookmaking: The Private-Public Agency of Robert Nicolson to the panel on The Early Modern Material Text I: Reading, Collecting, Compiling (March […]
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold’s Work on Mapping Paper in Medieval England Project Reported by BBC
The BBC reports on the work of the Mapping Paper in Medieval England project. The project team, led by Dr Da Rold, has as its aim to prepare a new dataset of Medieval Paper Manuscripts written in England between 1300 and about 1500. Funded by the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme, and building on data […]
Continue ReadingDr M E J Hughes’s The Pepys Library and the Historic Collections of Magdalene College Included in TLS Review
Dr M E J Hughes’s new book on the library of Samuel Pepys is included in an article about current interest in the diarist published in the recent TLS: Eye on posterity (March 16). The article by the historian Arnold Hunt shows how recent scholarship has opened up the study of Pepys as a reader […]
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