Jade Cuttle (University of Cambridge PhD student and BBC New Generation Thinker) has turned her current English Literature research into a BBC Radio 3 Essay titled ‘Digging for Words’. ‘The Essay’, written and presented by Jade, airs on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 9.45pm or is available online now on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298fx ‘Digging for […]
Continue ReadingMedieval Ideas Creative Laboratory Event: ‘Why Medieval Women’s Lives Are Still Relevant’, Thursday 8 May
Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory: forthcoming event Thursday 8 May 2025, 5.30pm Seminar room GR.04, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge ‘Why Medieval Women’s Lives Are Still Relevant’ Diane Watt (Professor of English Literature, University of Surrey) and Pragya Agarwal (Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge) In advance of this informal discussion session, please read the following […]
Continue ReadingDr John Colley publishes ‘Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430–1560’ (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr John Colley’s first monograph, Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560 (Oxford University Press) is scheduled for online publication in April 2025. The book traces the influence of the Quattrocento rebirth of Greek scholarship on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literature, and argues that attending to the period’s ideas about Greek translation fundamentally […]
Continue Reading17th April 2025, deadline for a Call for papers for the Symposium ‘Black Atlantic Magazines and Space’
The Symposium will be held at the British Library on 8th May 2025. Further information on the event and submitting papers can be found in the poster below or at this link: https://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2025/03/call-for-papers-twentieth-century-black-periodicals-and-space-.html
Continue ReadingRegistration open (until Friday 6 June) for ‘Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance’, 3-4 July 2025, St John’s College, Cambridge
Registration has now opened (until Friday 6 June) for ‘Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance’, a two-day conference at St John’s College, Cambridge, 3-4 July 2025. Speakers include Barbara Ravelhofer, Julie Stone Peters, and Elisabeth Dutton. Further details about the event, including a programme and how to register, are available at https://stagingsilence.wordpress.com. Space is […]
Continue ReadingThe Faculty of English is delighted to announce that Dr Chris Tilmouth has been awarded a 2025 Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching
The Faculty of English is delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Chris Tilmouth has been awarded one of the 2025 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching. You can find out more about this year’s winners and the history of the prize here: https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/pilkington-prize/2025
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson discusses her new book ‘Vanishing Landscapes’ at Heffers, Cambridge on 10 April
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson will be discussing her new book Vanishing Landscapes at Heffers, Cambridge on April 10th 6-7pm. Link to further information about the event and to get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanishing-landscapes-bonnie-lander-johnson-at-heffers-bookshop-tickets-1291155935159 Vanishing Landscapes combines nature writing and social history to tell the story of how we became modern people, alienated from the landscape. The book […]
Continue ReadingRead a review of two new books by members of the English faculty, Edward Wilson-Lee and Michael D. Hurley, in the latest issue of @TheCriticMag
Read a review of two new books by members of the English faculty, Edward Wilson-Lee and Michael D. Hurley, in the latest issue of @TheCriticMag here.
Continue ReadingProf Sarah Dillon discusses ‘Evidence’ on BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking
On Friday 14th March, Professor Sarah Dillon joins presenter Matthew Sweet and other guests on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking programme, to discuss our shifting relationship to evidence. Sarah will appear alongside Uncanny television presenter Danny Robins, the former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption, and philosophers Dr Jonathan Egid (SOAS) and Dr Anthony Milligan (KCL). […]
Continue ReadingThe Centre for Drones and Culture organises an exhibition: ‘Dronotope: The politics of timelines and data visualisation’
Dronotope: The politics of timelines and data visualisation Alison Richard Building 24th March – 11th April Cambridge Festival Event Using interactive timelines of recent developments in drone technology, the public is invited to explore the politics of how data visualisations narrate emerging technology. Link to further information about the event: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45869/ This exhibition draws from the research […]
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