Faculty of English

The St Margaret of Scotland Annual Lecture Series commemorates the life and legacy of Margaret of Scotland. The Lecture Series is an annual event, focusing on intersections between Catholicism and theology or the arts. It is attached to an annual choral Mass at St Salvator’s Chapel, which celebrates links between the University’s School of Divinity […]

Cultivating the Caribbean: Ecologies of Land, Text and Vision This symposium explores ecological and environmental ways of thinking about Caribbean spaces from colonisation to the present day. We will focus on agricultural spaces and other forms of cultivation arising from, and in resistance to, slavery’s many infrastructures and cultural imprints. Case studies include work on […]

Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emma) will be in conversation with the performance artist and bodybuilder Jake Wood at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge on 22 October 2024 at 7.30pm. They will discuss Wood’s practice, his exploration of embodiment, sexuality, and spatiality, and his performance/intervention for the Museum’s exhibition ‘Paris 1924: Sport, Art, & the Body’. Their discussion […]

Teacher Support Session – Coursework & EPQ Resources Tuesday 19th November 2024 16:00 – 16:45 on zoom  The English Faculty Library has been hosting school groups working on the A Level Literature and Language & Literature Coursework and would now like to invite teachers to join us for a session discussing the range of online […]

On Saturday 30th November 2024, India Oswin (a PhD candidate at Trinity College) is convening ‘Between Word and Image: New Perspectives on Concrete Poetry and Women’s Visual Poetics’, a hybrid symposium and collaborative poetry performance in the Faculty of English. Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the first international exhibition of concrete and kinetic poetry, […]

Juliette Bretan features on this week’s Times Literary Supplement (TLS) podcast, talking about her review of ‘Europe in British Literature and Culture’ (CUP, 2024), edited by Petra Rau and William T Rossiter. To listen to the podcast: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/the-podcast/the-tls-podcast-october-10-2024. To read the review: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/literary-criticism/europe-in-british-literature-and-culture-petra-rau-william-r-rossiter-book-review-juliette-bretan. Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate in English at the University of […]

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 has been awarded to Han Kang. The Swedish Academy praised the South Korean author for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Dr Dominic O’Key, a Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published an article on Han’s work that explores the […]

Prof Raphael Lyne has been awarded a grant in a new interdisciplinary scheme run by UK Research and Innovation. The project’s title is ‘When memories come alive: an interdisciplinary study of the vividness of memory’. What does it feel like to have a memory? We know surprisingly little about how we can vividly relive past […]

Dr Jennifer Wallace gives an invited lecture on Greek tragedy and ecopoetics, entitled “Hamartia in the Anthropocene”, in the Classics Faculty at Cornell University on Friday 25 October. Link for further information: https://events.cornell.edu/event/jennifer-wallace-classics-speaker-series

Dr Jennifer Wallace is invited to speak about “Byron and Greece: A ‘motley scene’” at a concert arranged to honour his memory in this bicentenary year at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens on Tuesday 1st October.