Thursday 23 October 2014 10AM to 5PM Drama Studio, Faculty of English Full Programme Dr Gavin Alexander leads a group of lecturers from the Faculty of English who will read aloud Shakespeare’s complete poetry to mark the 450th anniversary of his birth. Shakespeare’s plays are performed every day throughout the world. His poems are read […]
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Resounding Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Symposium
Resounding Dylan Thomas Saturday 11 October 2014 – Faculty of English 2014 marks the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth. As such, it provides an ideal opportunity to reevaluate a body of work that has for too long precluded scholarly consensus. The sticking point has always been a biographical one. Thomas’s untimely death in New York in 1953 […]
Continue ReadingWhither Political Theatre? – Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe
Whither Political Theatre? Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe. 19-20 Sept, St John’s College. The conference was sponsored by the British Academy as a BA Regional Event. Organising Committee: Dr Eva Urban, Dr Drew Milne, FBA Professor John Kerrigan. Keynote speakers included John Kerrigan & Eva Urban, from the Cambridge English Faculty, […]
Continue ReadingEnglish Renaissance Poetics: Online Bibliography of Texts and Sources
English Renaissance Poetics: An Online Bibliography of Texts and Sources – a £20k Cambridge Humanities Research Grants funded project lead by Dr Gavin Alexander ran from January to September 2014. ‘There has been too little engagement among literary scholars with early modern ways of thinking about imaginative literature. One major contributory factor is the difficulty […]
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Dr Alex da Costa was a Winner and Dr Sarah Haggarty received a Special Mention in the Lecturer category of the recent CUSU Teaching Excellence Awards. These awards were inaugurated this year to celebrate excellent teaching and student engagement. Students were given the opportunity to nominate lecturers, supervisors, administrators and other staff whom they considered to be exemplary teachers and […]
Continue ReadingUsing, Misusing and Abusing Latin in the Early Modern Period
Dr Andrew Taylor delivered the keynote address at the University of Warwick’s, ‘Using, Misusing and Abusing Latin in the Early Modern Period’ conference, Friday 25th-26th April 2014. The conference was hosted by the Queen Mary University, the University of Warwick IAS Classical Reception Network and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance.
Continue ReadingDr Mary Newbould on Melvyn Bragg’s ‘In Our Time’
Dr Mary Newbould recently appeared on Melvyn Bragg’s ‘In Our Time’ talking about Laurence Sterne and Tristram Shandy. Find more information and a recording of the programme here.
Continue ReadingSpecial Collections – William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries is curating a Shakespeare exhibition at the University Library. Read her guest post on the University Library Special Collections Blog. “A new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall cases brings together a small number of books printed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, which together demonstrate some of the ways […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Christopher Page is appointed the next Gresham Professor of Music.
Professor Christopher Page has been appointed as the next Gresham Professor of Music at Gresham College in London, founded in 1597. He replaces Christopher Hogwood CBE. Christopher Page is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature in the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. The author […]
Continue ReadingProf Steven Connor on The Verb, 14 March 2014
Professor Steven Connor will be talking about his new book, Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalisations, on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb at 22.00, Friday 14th March. See also: The Times The Times Literary Supplement Textual Practice
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