Yui Kajita was awarded the winning place in the Thomas Hardy Association’s Student Essay Prize for her essay, ‘Hardy’s Questioning’, published in the most recent issue of the Hardy Review (vol. 20, no. 1): <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/1934-8908>. Her essay was judged by members of The Thomas Hardy Association’s Editorial Board, who commented that it is ‘a delightful […]

Yui Kajita gives an invited lecture for the Walter de la Mare Society at The London Review Bookshop on Monday, 26 November 2018 at 6.45 pm. The talk is titled, ‘”A lully of voices”: Haunting Echoes in Walter de la Mare and Thomas Hardy’. More details can be found on the Society’s website: <http://www.walterdelamare.co.uk>.

The materials Reading and Seminar series is hugely excited to present Sara Larsen and David Brazil, on a special visit from Oakland, CA, stopping over at Cambridge, UK. Poets and scholars of Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, the Pauline tradition, Sappho, Christian communism, the Paris Commune, the Trojan war, riot grrrl, and more; co-editors of the legendary […]

Readings by novelist Anna Moschovakis, artist Sharon Kivland, and translator Charlotte Collins Hosted by Dr Sophie Seita Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio 19 November 2018, 7.30pm Anna Moschovakis is the author most recently of the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love (Coffee House Press, 2018).  Her books of poetry include the James Laughlin […]

Dr Michael D. Hurley gives a lecture on ‘Wrestling with Hopkins’ at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Literature Festival, to be held at Stonyhurst College on 10th November.

Dr Orietta da Rold delivers a Plenary Lecture entitled ‘From Pulp to Fictions: The Role of Paper Before Print’ at ‘Working with Archives’, AHRC Archives and Writing Lives Project and Quadrivium UK, University of Glasgow, 10 November 2018.

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Free talks on Virginia Woolf and her Contemporaries, hosted by Literature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College. 30 October 2018, 1.00 pm: Clara Jones will talk on Woolf’s lost sketches from 1931. Town and Gown all welcome. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/virginia-woolf-talks/ *

Trudi Tate and Isobel Maddison organised an all-day reading of Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse, Sunday 14 October 2018. Another all-day reading is planned for October 2019: probably of The Waves (1931). https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-past-talks