The Faculty of English wishes to appoint to an Assistant Professorship in the Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century from 1 September 2023. Link to further information and to apply. Closing date: 15 December 2022.
Continue ReadingEmma Gomis coedits ‘New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive’
The collection of lectures, transcribed from the audio archives of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, edited by Emma Gomis and Anne Waldman, is published by Nightboat Books. The official release date for the publication is 8 November. The book can be preordered here: https://nightboat.org/book/new-weathers/ The editors will be doing a virtual launch with City Lights […]
Continue ReadingDr Diarmuid Hester goes On the Road with Penguin Classics podcast
Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) was a special guest on a recent episode of On the Road with Penguin Classics podcast. He joined the charming host Henry Elliot for a walk around Cambridge and a meander through E.M. Forster’s classic novel Maurice. Dr Hester’s new book Nothing Ever Just Disappears, a history of LGBTQ culture through […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate gives a keynote lecture at the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain Annual Conference, September 2022
Trudi Tate (Clare Hall) gave a keynote lecture on ‘1922: The International Context’ for the annual conference of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, Corpus Christi College, September 2022. Link to Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain website: http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/
Continue ReadingDr Harry R. McCarthy talks about his new book ‘Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre’, Wednesday 23 November
What was life like for early modern boy actors, and what was it like to write for them? Join the Intellectual Forum and Jesus College Fellow Dr Harry R. McCarthy to hear about his new book, Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre. Date and time: Wednesday 23 November, 5pm-7.30pm […]
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe, College Librarian, represented Magdalene College at the RIBA Stirling Prize 2022 Ceremony on 13 October
At the ceremony, Magdalene College’s new library was named the UK’s best new building, winning the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture. As College Librarian, and a Director of Magdalene College’s Design and Build company, Dr Waithe showed round the awards judges and wrote the client statement for the RIBA Stirling Prize winning New Library. […]
Continue ReadingProf. Michael D. Hurley lectures at the G. K. Chesterton Inaugural Conference, Notre Dame London Global Gateway, 28th Oct. 2022
G.K. Chesterton Conference: The Polymath The inaugural Notre Dame London Chesterton Conference focuses on G.K. Chesterton as a man with an array of interests and gifts, and celebrates the dedication of the newly opened G.K. Chesterton Collection housed at the Notre Dame London Global Gateway. Chesterton was a genuine polymath who wrote prolifically on philosophy, […]
Continue ReadingProfessorship of English (2001)
The Board of Electors to the Professorship of English (2001) invite applications for this Professorship from those whose work is connected with any aspect of Anglophone literature to take up appointment on 1 October 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. Link to further information and to apply. Closing date: 15 December 2022.
Continue ReadingWorkshop announcement – ‘Working with Film Archives: a Decolonial Approach’, Thursday 27 October 2022, 16:00-19:00 BST, Faculty of English Drama Studio
Working with Film Archives: a Decolonial Approach Thu, 27 October 2022, 16:00 – 19:00 BST Faculty of English Drama Studio (basement level) Faculty of English Cambridge CB3 9DP ‘Working with Film Archives: a Decolonial Approach’ is a Workshop featuring the films of two documentarians. We will be screening Ilana Navaro’s Josephine Baker: Une Icone Noire […]
Continue ReadingConference announcement: ‘The Functions of Criticism’, 19-20 May 2023, University of Cambridge.
‘The Functions of Criticism’ will be a two-day conference held on 19-20 May 2023, at the University of Cambridge. The keynotes will be Rita Felski (University of Virginia), Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University), and Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge), with further speakers to be announced. This event will be an interdisciplinary conference exploring questions of function, […]
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