Dr Michael D. Hurley and Dr Stephen Tardif (St Michael’s College, University of Toronto) have taken over as co-editors of The Hopkins Quarterly, an international journal of critical, scholarly, and appreciative responses to the lives and works of Gerard M. Hopkins, S.J., and his circle. Founded in 1974, the journal publishes academic articles and book […]
Continue ReadingDr Christopher Tilmouth contributes to Radio 4’s ‘The New Anatomy of Melancholy’
Christopher Tilmouth will be a contributor to Radio 4’s new 12-part series on Robert Burton’s ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ today at 1.45pm and again next week. Link to ‘The New Anatomy of Melancholy‘.
Continue ReadingDr Louise Joy writes about the choices facing students as they head into summer term, Times Higher Education, 1 May 2020
As university students head into the summer term, lecturer Louise Joy shares the choices that students must make around their education in a piece for Times Higher Education. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/blogs/choices-facing-students-they-head-summer-term#survey-answer
Continue ReadingDr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) named a New Generation Thinker by a joint committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC
Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) has been named a New Generation Thinker by a joint committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC. Defined as an academic who ‘brings the best of university research and scholarly ideas to a broad audience through the media and public engagement’, New Generation […]
Continue Reading‘Territories’: a new prose collection by Yvonne Salmon and James Riley
Published by Contraband Books, Territories is a collection of texts and images based on a series of site-specific expanded cinema performances staged between 2015 and 2018 by Yvonne Salmon and James Riley. Each of the texts deal with ‘occulted’ or otherwise obscured spaces. As Salmon and Riley put it in their introduction: “Working on the […]
Continue ReadingDr Kasia Boddy’s new book ‘Blooming Flowers’ published by Yale University Press, 28 April 2020
Dr Kasia Boddy’s new book ‘Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Flowers and People’ is published by Yale University Press on 28 April 2020. https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300243338 “Blooming Flowers is a gorgeously lush evocation of twelve different flowers, each one steeped in its own stories, cultural associations and botanical wonder. It is not just a sunny celebration of […]
Continue Reading‘Of Mud & Flame’: a new book on the film ‘Penda’s Fen’, featuring an essay by Yvonne Salmon (The Alchemical Landscape)
Strange Attractor Press have recently published Of Mud & Flame a sourcebook of material relating to David Rudkin and Alan Clarke’s legendary television film Penda’s Fen (1974). The volume is edited by Matthew Harle and James Machin and features an essay by Yvonne Salmon (Cambridge), director of The Alchemical Landscape project on ‘Penda’s Fen and […]
Continue ReadingDr Mina Gorji on Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’
On Friday 28 February, Dr Mina Gorji joined host Ian McMillan, fellow poets John McAuliffe, Igor Klikovac, André Naffis-Sahely, and songwriter Ana Silvera to explore the language of leaving, resettling and exile. The programme is available to listen to again here.
Continue ReadingDillon and Dihal publish AI Narratives edited collection, March 2020
Dr Sarah Dillon and Dr Kanta Dihal, along with Dr Stephen Cave, have just published AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines with Oxford University Press. This edited collection brings together twenty contributors from across disciplines to examine the representation of intelligent machines in the Anglophone Western imagination, focusing in particular on […]
Continue ReadingUPDATE: Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellowship 2020-21
Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellowship 2020-21 We are sorry that the appointments procedure for this Fellowship has been halted due to the Coronavirus outbreak. We expect to resume appointing to the Fellowship for 2021-22.
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