Dr Kasia Boddy interviews Olga Tokarczuc, winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Literature, as part of the Cambridge Literary Festival, 6.30pm, Wednesday 17 October, Heffers Bookshop.
Continue ReadingPOETRY READING featuring JOHN BALABAN and SARAH HOWE, 5.30pm, Wednesday 24 October, Pembroke College
POETRY READING featuring JOHN BALABAN and SARAH HOWE 5.30 to 7pm on Weds 24th October in the Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College Open to all. Free of charge. Free wine. Poet Bios JOHN BALABAN <http://www.johnbalaban.com/> is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of […]
Continue Reading“Concerning the Novel Chapter”, Nicholas Dames, Columbia University, Wednesday 14 November 2018, 5.30pm, GR05, Faculty of English
What does the fictional chapter do? Why do novels have them and how have they changed? This talk will propose the chapter — among the most innocuous and pervasive of the novel’s formal features — as a new object of analysis, and offer suggestions on what methods are appropriate in order to approach a phenomenon so ubiquitous and so […]
Continue ReadingSettled status applications for EU/EEA and Swiss nationals
In this time of uncertainty over the final shape of Brexit I wanted to write to let you know that the University continues to be committed to supporting its EU, EEA and Swiss staff, many of whom we know are concerned about their immigration status after the UK leaves the EU next year. Our people […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael D. Hurley gives Keynote Lecture at ‘Word and Mystery II: Angelic Poetry’, Santiago de Chile, 18-19 October 2018
Dr Michael D. Hurley is giving a keynote lecture on ‘The Fate of Angels in the Nineteenth Century’ at a conference on ‘Word and Mystery’ in Santiago, Chile (18-19th October). The conference is hosted at the Universidad de los Andes, organized by: Institute of Literature de los Andes; the Faculty of Philology of the Universität […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita performs Transpositions at Murray Edwards College on 24 October 2018, 8pm
Dr Sophie Seita has been commissioned to make a new performance piece in response to a research project in Sociology and an exhibition at Murray Edwards on reproductive technologies and reproductive labour. Her piece Transpositions will reflect on the concept and choreography of transposition, queer kinship, corn as a queer plant, ritual, the ritornello, and the cross-pollinating possibilities of […]
Continue ReadingA Small Exhibition about Giants, curated by Dr Amy Morris (Faculty of English, 1 October– 9 November 2018)
What kinds of books have giants in them? How do they fit them in? Find out at the exhibition on the first floor of the English Faculty. There’s also a display board and mystery object in the English Faculty Library. The exhibition is curated by Dr Amy Morris and includes illustrated books from university and […]
Continue ReadingCANCELLED: Wolfson Humanities Society: ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and Place in the Medieval Dream
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED: Dr Lotte Reinbold, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Selwyn College, Cambridge, will be giving a talk entitled: ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and Place in the Medieval Dream’ The talk is on Tuesday, 9th October, at 6:00 in the Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson […]
Continue Reading‘Carcanet Classics’ Book Launch, Tuesday 9 October 2018, 6.30pm, Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
All are welcome to join the editors of three new Carcanet titles at an informal launch event (with refreshments) at Heffers Bookshop (Trinity Street) on Tuesday 9th October 2018, 18:30 to 20:00. WALTER PATER: Selected Essays, edited by Alex Wong JOHN HEATH-STUBBS: Selected Poems, edited by John Clegg PROPERTIUS: Poems, edited and translated by Patrick […]
Continue ReadingLaura McCormick Kilbride publishes ‘Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History’, September 2018
Swinburne’s Style: An Experiment in Verse History establishes Swinburne’s significance in the historical development of English poetry from 1865 to the present. Situating Swinburne on the cusp of modernism, it argues that Swinburne had no personal style because he possessed all styles. His mastery of traditional verse forms promoted a level of stylistic self-awareness which […]
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