Congratulations to Louise Joy for being Highly Commended for Student Support (Academic) in the CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards 2023: The ceremony was held at St Barnabas Church, Cambridge on Tuesday 16th May. https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article/cambridgesu/SLTA-Winners-announced/
Continue ReadingLaunch of a special issue of Criticism, June 2023
What‘s Critical About Critical Bibliography?: A discussion launching a special issue of Criticism edited by Kate Ozment and Lisa Maruca. Featuring an article by Dr Georgina Wilson,Research Fellow in Early Modern English Literature, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge 20 June, 5pm-6.15pm, BST. Online Registration https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/7XlM2tyS82WvvQDjJf_Vcg?t=1683643754
Continue ReadingBook Launch and ECA Publishing Workshop: The People of Print: Seventeenth-Century England, June 2023
Book Launch and ECA Publishing Workshop: The People of Print: Seventeenth-Century England In collaboration with the Centre for Printing History and Culture, Kaley Kramer, Adam James Smith, and Rachel Stenner invite you to join a virtual book launch for The People of Print: Seventeenth-Century England. The first in a series profiling under-studied figures in the book and print trades, this collection is now out with CUP. The book […]
Continue ReadingMark Wormald gives three talks to mark the paperback publication of ‘The Catch’
Mark Wormald is in Ireland to give three talks to mark the paperback publication of The Catch. Tuesday 2 May – University College Cork Thursday 4 May – Lexicon Dún Laoghaire Thursday 25 May – Seamus Heaney HomePlace at Bellaghy. Link for further information and tickets: The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes with Mark Wormald […]
Continue ReadingReem Abbas wins the 2022 RES essay prize
Reem Abbas’s MPhil thesis (graduated 2020) has won the Review of English Studies Essay Prize 2022. The print article is called ‘A “Polyphonic Score”: Basil Bunting’s Persian Condensations’ and can be read here. Reem Abbas is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English and Jesus College.
Continue ReadingBonnie Lander Johnson gives the Ushaw Lecture at Durham University, 9 May 2023
Bonnie Lander Johnson gives the Ushaw Lecture at Durham University. She spoke about the forgotten women of the Catholic Literary Revival and how their life and work challenge our definition of modernist coterie. Link to further information: Ushaw Lecture May 2023 – Durham University
Continue ReadingDr Mathelinda Nabugodi Organises an exhibition: Poetry and Politics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Jesus College, 25th April – 14th July
Poetry and Politics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Jesus College Free and open to all; from 11am to 4pm daily. The Marshall Room at Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL Coleridge – poet, philosopher, critic, visionary, and one of Cambridge’s most famous students. He arrived at Jesus College in 1791, and left three years later without receiving […]
Continue ReadingE K Myerson curates ‘Anchorless Bodies: Navigating Arabic in Medieval Manuscripts’, Parker Library, 25 May-25 September 2023
Anchorless Bodies: Navigating Arabic in Medieval Manuscripts With Works by Emii Alrai: An Exhibition at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, curated by E.K. Myerson, Parker Library ECRF. Alrai uses the phrase ‘Anchorless Bodies’ to describe her artworks, which draw inspiration from the debris of archaeological excavations, and from medieval astronomy. ‘Anchorless bodies’ are displaced […]
Continue ReadingBonnie Lander Johnson speaks on the ‘Things Unseen’ podcast, April 2023
Bonnie Lander Johnson spoke with Christopher Jameson about Easter and the relationship between early modern agricultural practices and the liturgical year, on the Things Unseen podcast. Click here for further information and to listen to the podcast.
Continue ReadingBonnie Lander Johnson chairs the inaugural ‘Room of One’s Own’ Lecture, 23 April 2023
Bonnie Lander Johnson chaired the inaugural Room of One’s Own Lecture, a collaboration between Newnham College and the Cambridge Literary Festival. Ali Smith delivered the lecture in Newnham’s Clough Hall where, almost 100 years ago, Woolf spoke on ‘women and fiction’. Woolf was invited to speak by Newnham students and her lecture went on to […]
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