Faculty of English

Professor Sarah Dillon has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project entitled “Literature and AI: Rhetoric, Influence and Epistemology”. The research project historicises current AI hype by revealing the literary nature of the origins of Western AI science, both in terms of the speculative rhetoric of the founding papers, as well as the […]

Dr Claudia Tobin has curated the first exhibition to explore the gardens of the women of the Bloomsbury group. Focusing on the writer Virginia Woolf, the painter Vanessa Bell, the arts patron and photographer Lady Ottoline Morrell, and the garden designer and poet Vita Sackville-West, the exhibition tells the stories of these women and their […]

Professor Gopal’s election was announced by the Royal Society of Literature at an event on Thursday 11 July.  Link to further information: https://rsliterature.org/announcement-of-2024-fellows-and-honorary-fellows/

Representing Volume: Loud and soft in the Romantic period Dr Mina Gorji (University of Cambridge, English Literature), British Academy-funded researcher Saturday 13 July, 11.30–12.15pm, Library How do we describe the volume of sound? How do we experience volume when we read a poem? Through listening, mark-making, sound and writing exercises, and with demonstrations from Foley […]

PhD student Liam Plimmer has been awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to fund a Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University in 2024-25, following a competitive UK-wide selection process. A first-generation student, he graduated with a double first with distinction in English from Downing College, Cambridge in 2020. He then completed an MSt in English Literature, 1900-Present as […]

Professor Hurley has recently made several contributions to Thought for the Day, offering reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news. You can listen to his episodes here on: Dr Johnson’s desk, T. S. Eliot and reality, the seriousness of humour, the virtues of discrimination, and the saintliness of service. Also […]

Luke Allan, a first-year PhD student at Trinity College, has won the 2024 Ivan Juritz Prize.  Open to postgraduate students throughout Europe, the Ivan Juritz Prize celebrates the creative explosion of the modernist era and rewards art that seeks to ‘make it new’.  It is a collaboration between the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture […]

Eva Dema has been awarded the William H. Helfand Fellowship by the Grolier Club of New York. The fellowship supports research into the art and history of the book, and will enable Eva – who has spent the spring semester as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University – to continue her research on the transatlantic […]

The Shelley Conference 2024 takes place at the Keats House Museum, Hampstead, on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 June. The conference marks the bicentenary of the publication of Shelley’s Posthumous Poems, edited by Mary Shelley.  Dr Wilson’s lecture is entitled ‘What is a Posthumous Poem?’. Link to further information about the conference: https://theshelleyconference.com/

A talk delivered at this year’s Hay Festival by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) is now available to stream online through Hay Anytime. Dr Hester was invited to Hay to speak about a queer sense of place and his book, Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories. In celebration of LGBT Pride month, his talk will […]