Faculty of English

Prof. Hurley lectures on how the theological animus of 19th and early 20th century environmentalism challenges not only the disenchanting logic of technocratic capitalism, but also, more surprisingly, the progressive assumptions of contemporary eco-activism. Link to the Sorbonne website:  https://vale.sorbonne-universite.fr/sem-vale-16-05-2024-michael-hurley-cambridge-angels-and-apes-how-theology-meets-ecology-in-chesterton-wordsworth-and-hopkins-bibliotheque-de-lufr/      

Organised with support from the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics and the Cambridge Committee for Central and East European and Eurasian Studies (CAMCCEEES), ‘The Geopolitics of Eurovision‘ will take place between 5.00 – 6.30 pm on Saturday 11 May 2024 in GR06/07 in the Faculty of English. This interdisciplinary event aims to consider how Eurovision, which was […]

Dr Danny Shanahan has been awarded funding by the Irish Research Council to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at University College Cork, turning his PhD thesis (entitled ‘Disturbed Areas: Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland’) into a monograph.

Further to the publication of his book Critical Forms and Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth in 2023, Ross Wilson will join Jonathan Kramnick, Irina Dumitrescu, Thomas Karshan, Yvette Siegert, Lucy Newlyn, Ryan Ruby, and Jenny Davidson for a day-long symposium at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies to discuss the forms of criticism and whether criticism can be […]

Dr Mark Wormald attends the Granard Booktown Festival to chat about his book The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes (2022) with Festival Director and Co-Founder John Connell. The Festival dates are 19-21 April 2024 and the interview with Mark Wormald takes place on Sunday 21 April at 12.15pm at Fay’s Bar. Link to the Granard […]

Join us at Heffers to celebrate the launch of James Riley’s new book, Well Beings: How the Seventies Lost its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves. Concepts such as wellness and self-care may feel like distinctly twenty-first century ideas, but they first gained traction as part of the New Age health movements that began […]

Eva Dema has been awarded the 2023 Review of English Studies Essay Prize for her article ‘‘Sacred to the Memory’: Thomas Hardy’s Tombstones’. Launched in 1999, the prize is awarded annually to an article on any topic of English literature or the English language from the earliest period to the present, and is open to […]