Faculty of English

Bonnie Lander Johnson chaired the inaugural Room of One’s Own Lecture, a collaboration between Newnham College and the Cambridge Literary Festival. Ali Smith delivered the lecture in Newnham’s Clough Hall where, almost 100 years ago, Woolf spoke on ‘women and fiction’. Woolf was invited to speak by Newnham students and her lecture went on to […]

Nicolette Zeeman is giving the Annual Riddy Lecture at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York on 24th May, entitled ‘The Other Courtly Figure: Medieval Paradiastole‘. Link to further information: https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/events/archive/2023/riddylecture24may/

Downing College launches the first issue of The Leaves, a magazine of prose, poetry, drama and visual art by Downing students. The magazine is edited by the members of the Downing English Society and Fellow in English, Bonnie Lander Johnson. Link to further information: https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/news/english-society-launches-new-literary-magazine 

On May 25th, Bhanu Kapil will be the keynote speaker for a one day conference at the University of East Anglia (‘Poetry, Representation and the Archive’). The conference is organised as part of the ‘Towards a Centre for Contemporary Poetry in the Archive’ pilot project, funded by the Mellon Foundation at the British Archive for […]

1923, a new Turkish musical whose book has been co-written by Mert Dilek, premiered to great acclaim at Istanbul’s Zorlu Performing Arts Center on 23 April 2023. Dilek, PhD candidate at Trinity College, was commissioned to write the work with Yekta Kopan and Mehmet Ergen in commemoration of the centenary of the founding of the Turkish […]

Professor Clare Pettitt gave the Annual Stevenson Lecture on 2 May 2023, at Senate House, University of London.

The Leeds School of Arts, in partnership with the University of Central Lancashire, is delighted to host the 11th conference of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit). This year’s theme will explore the notion of belonging to a family, a local culture, or a national, regional, and international group, intrinsic to periodical studies. If […]

On the afternoons of 18 and 19 May, alongside Oxford’s Bodleian Library and the Centre for Material Texts Cambridge, Justine Provino (Jesus College, Cambridge) is organising a symposium on her PhD case study, the self-destructive artist’s book Agrippa (a book of the dead) by the writer William Gibson, the artist Dennis Ashbaugh and the publisher Kevin […]

Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Monday 1st May, 5 – 6.30 Faculty of English, 9 West Road, GR06/07,  The Annual Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture,  The Moral Economy in Early Medieval Ireland Dr Elizabeth Boyle, Maynooth University This event will be live-streamed, registration is required:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpd-CuqT0jH9RCuNOasu5yyXwn40Qk_LHX A reception will follow in the Faculty of English […]

Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Ali Smith Symposium Wednesday 26 April, 10:00 – 18:00 GR06/07 Faculty of English, Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Ali Smith Symposium, a one-day symposium. Keynote: Dr Kaye Mitchell (Director of the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester). This symposium, which will be attended by the author herself, intends to explore the critical and […]