Drs Trudi Tate and Kate Kennedy publish a new edited collection of essays looking at the legacy of the First World War through the lens of the creative arts. As a specialist in the literature of conflict, Dr Tate explores the ways in which writers expressed the impact of trauma on families – and child rearing […]
Continue ReadingProfessorship of Medieval and Renaissance English
We are delighted to announce that Dr Nicolette Zeeman has been elected to the Professorship of Medieval and Renaissance English from 1st January 2016.
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.
Continue ReadingDo rave reviews on book covers count as literary criticism?
Dr Ross Wilson discusses the nature of the rave review in The New Statesman and asks whether it counts as criticism. Getting to put “Booker Prize Winner” and, perhaps, a puff from the panel of judges on your dust-jacket is priceless. But can puffing – the practice of lauding a book’s merits in a few […]
Continue ReadingAmy Bowles and Jitka Stollova: winner and runner-up of the Review of English Studies Essay Prize Competition
PhD student Amy Bowles has won the annual Review of English Studies Essay Prize Competition with a submission entitled ‘Dressing the Text: Ralph Crane’s Scribal Publication of Drama’. PhD student Jitka Stollova was a runner-up with an essay on the Beaumont and Fletcher folio and the London book trade in the 1640s and 50s. The […]
Continue ReadingHolly Corfield Carr wins Frieze Writer’s Prize
PhD student Holly Corfield-Carr has been announced the winner of the Frieze Writer’s Prize 2015 for her review of Katrina Palmer’s sound installation ’The Loss Adjusters’ which is the third part of her Artangel project ‘End Matter’ on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, UK. Holly is working on the piece as part of her […]
Continue ReadingPeter De Bolla Wins Robert Lowry Patten Award
We congratulate Professor Peter de Bolla, who has won the annual Robert Lowry Patten Award, awarded by the journal SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 for the most outstanding recent contribution to British literary studies of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. The award is for his book The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of […]
Continue ReadingWondering what to pack for university? A guitar, perhaps, for the “refresshynge of the witte”?
What to take to university is a question foremost in the minds of thousands of freshers up and down the country. Prof. Christopher Page’s latest book The Guitar in Tudor England reveals that 16th century students faced similar dilemmas – though their packing lists were rather different. In the hands of an amorous young man, […]
Continue ReadingWriting Europe, 500-1450
Dr Orietta Da Rold has contributed to a new book, Writing Europe, 500-1450. Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred on manuscript studies and textual criticism, which explore these issues from a pan-European perspective. […]
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