Dr Sarah Dillon is to join Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence as a co-Project Lead and Senior Research Fellow on the AI Narratives project which will run for three years from 2017-2020. The project, based at the centre and in conjunction with the Royal Society, aims to explore how AI is currently […]
Continue ReadingSarah Dillon
Dr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Lecture at David Mitchell Conference
Dr Sarah Dillon is to give the keynote address at an International Conference on contemporary author David Mitchell, to be held at the University of St Andrews on Saturday 3rd June. Sarah will be delivering a paper on the politics of adaptation.
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Address at ‘Graphic Reading’ Symposium, University of Birmingham
Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at a symposium on Graphic Reading at the University of Birmingham on Friday 19th May. Dr Dillon will be delivering a paper entitled ‘The Ungrammatical Knife: A Feminist Rereading of Ghost Dance‘ which will present material extracted from a chapter of her book, Queer Intimacies: Deconstruction, Feminism, Film, forthcoming […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Presents BBC Radio 3 Literary Pursuits
The third and fourth episodes in Dr Sarah Dillon’s literary detective documentary series for BBC Radio 3 – Literary Pursuits – will be broadcast to bracket the Hay Festival at 6.45pm on Sunday 29th May and Sunday 5th June. Episode 3 investigates the story behind the posthumous publication of Jane Austen’s Persuasion whilst episode 4 travels to […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Hosts BBC Radio 3 & Wellcome Trust ‘Body of Essays’ Event
On Monday 29th February, Dr Sarah Dillon will host ‘Body of Essays‘, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust and BBC Radio 3. The Wellcome Collection Reading Room will be the setting for a live recording of a series of Radio 3’s ‘The Essay’, in which five writers will ruminate on a different organ of the body. The […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Investigates the Story Behind the Story of Literature’s Great Works – BBC Radio 3
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 […]
Continue ReadingNovel Thoughts
Literature and science may seem like opposite ends of the spectrum, but reading can have an impact on even the most scientific of brains. A new film series reveals the reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a major role in their lives. The Novel […]
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 Reading