Audrey Chan has been awarded the Blake Emerging Scholar Award and Jim and Nancy Hinkle Student Travel Grant by the Hemingway Society to support her conference presentation and her research on the author’s relationship with the visual arts. St. John’s College has offered her the Noonan Award and Frank Hollick Fund for her research trips […]
Continue ReadingPoetry Reading with Ellen van Neerven / Mary Jean Chan / Jazz Money, Trinity Hall, 7pm, Tuesday 4 June
Ellen van Neerven and Jazz Money, two leading contemporary First Nations poets from Australia, will read alongside Mary Jean Chan, the Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow, organised by Louis Klee. 7pm June 4, 2024 The Leslie Stephen Room, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TJ Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist based on Gadigal land, […]
Continue ReadingJohn Milton’s notes identified in an influential book he once owned
‘The hand of Milton: Identifying the author’s annotated copy of Holinshed’s Chronicles’, an essay by researchers Claire M L Bourne, Aaron T Pratt and Jason Scott-Warren, was published in Issue 6320 of The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) on 17 May 2024. Their identification of John Milton’s handwriting in two volumes of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587) belonging […]
Continue ReadingJade Cuttle named a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker 2024
Ten of the UK’s most promising arts and humanities early career researchers have been announced as this year’s New Generation Thinkers, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC. Every year, a nationwide search is held for the best new arts and humanities academics with ideas that will resonate with a […]
Continue ReadingGraduate Research Forum Workshop, ‘Critical Forms: New Approaches to the Study of Literary Form’, Faculty of English, Tuesday 11 June. CfP deadline: Saturday 1 June
The Workshop will combine conference-style papers, a keynote by Professor Marion Thain (KCL), and a group discussion session responding to pre-circulated reading, led by our keynote. The event will be followed by a drinks reception where we encourage attendees to keep the conversations going! Our topic this year is Literary Form, with a particular focus […]
Continue ReadingProf. Michael Hurley lectures on “Angels and Apes” at the Sorbonne, 16th May 2024
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/
Continue Reading‘The Geopolitics of Eurovision’, Saturday 11 May, 5pm-6.30pm, Faculty of English
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 […]
Continue ReadingDr Danny Shanahan awarded funding by the Irish Research Council
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.
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