Faculty of English academic Dr Sarah Dillon is to become a literary detective in a new Sunday Feature series on BBC Radio 3 exploring great works of literature and how they came to be written. The series, called Literary Pursuits, begins this Sunday (10th January) with a look at the story behind Great Expectations by […]
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The Academic Book of the Future: Evolution or Revolution?
Last week the Centre for Material Texts convened a one-day colloquium entitled ‘The Academic Book of the Future: Evolution or Revolution?’ This was part of Cambridge’s contribution to a host of events being held across the UK in celebration of the first ever Academic Book Week, which is itself an offshoot of the AHRC-funded ‘Academic […]
Continue ReadingGhost Noise: Technology, Paranormality and the Horror of Media
As part of the Multiverse Autumn Residency Event at Wysing Arts Centre, Dr James Riley presents ‘Ghost Noise’, a speculative talk dealing with cybernetics and paranormality. The talk is followed by a Q+A with residency artist Paul Purgas (Emptyset). The event also features presentations and screenings from Wysing’s current artists in residence and further invited speakers: Essi Kausalainen, […]
Continue ReadingFestival of Ideas – The Alchemical Landscape
Contemporary writers, film-makers and musicians are increasingly investing the English landscape with notions of magic and the occult. As part of this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Yvonne Salmon and Dr James Riley present a field guide to this ‘geographic turn’. The Alchemical Landscape Faculty of English, GR06/07 24 Oct 2015, 6:30pm – 7:30pm This event is featured as part […]
Continue ReadingJennifer Wallace’s ‘Digging Up Milton’
Jennifer Wallace’s first novel ‘Digging Up Milton’ is published by Cillian Press. The book’s launch is on the 1st October, St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London.
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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 ReadingThe Word-Hoard: Robert Macfarlane on Rewilding our Language of Landscape
We have forgotten 10,000 words for our landscapes, but we will make 10,000 more, given time and inclination. Dr Robert Macfarlane examines the plethora of words we use for weather and landscape in The Guardian.
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 ReadingDr Gavin Alexander on Radio 4
Dr Gavin Alexander appeared on BBC Radio 4’s The Sonnet and the Sword on Sunday 11th August 2013. The Sonnet and the Sword looks at Elizabethan courtier poetry, its influence on literature and its context in the wider world.
Continue ReadingFaculty Members in the News
Professor Steven Connor comments on £1m sale of Samuel Beckett manuscript (Reuters). Steve Watts discusses how not to write a personal statement for English courses (the Guardian). Dr Robert Macfarlane interviewed for BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions, on the Music of the Outer Hebrides (BBC Radio 3).
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