Link to The Post’s announcement of its 2022 Summer Intern Class: https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2022/02/11/post-announces-2022-summer-intern-class/ Meena Venkataramanan is an M.Phil. candidate in English Studies and a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge.
Continue ReadingMadeleine Pulman-Jones, winner of this year’s Harper-Wood Award at St John’s College, reads from some of her recent work, Thursday 3 March, 5.15pm
Harper-Wood Literary Reading: Madeleine Pulman-Jones introduced and chaired by Sasha Dugdale Thursday 3rd March, 5.15 – 6.30 PM Wordsworth Room, St John’s College. Madeleine Pulman-Jones, winner of this year’s Harper-Wood Award at St John’s College, will read from some of her recent work. Her poems have appeared in publications including PN Review, Poetry Birmingham and Adroit Journal, where […]
Continue ReadingMathelinda Nabugodi wins the 2022 ‘Publications of the English Goethe Society’ Prize
Mathelinda Nabugodi has been awarded the English Goethe Society’s 2022 Publications of the English Goethe Society Prize for an outstanding article published in the journal in the previous year. The award is for the article ‘The Contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Faust Translations’, which appeared in PEGS 90.1 (2021), pp. 31–52 (https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2021.1887593). The judges write […]
Continue ReadingLewis Roberts (St John’s College) wins a Stephen Copley Award from the British Association of Romantic Studies
Lewis Roberts, PhD candidate at St John’s College, has won a competitive Stephen Copley Award from the British Association of Romantic Studies to complete research at the Dove Cottage Archives into the manuscript history of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poems. Lewis’s PhD project is a study of the line-ending in poetry of the long nineteenth century, […]
Continue Reading‘Marvels and Miracles’, the 23rd Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, takes place on 5 February 2022
The Cambridge Colloquium for Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2022 will be held on Saturday 5th February, with a range of exciting talks grouped around the theme ‘Marvels and Miracles’. This annual graduate conference held within the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic department showcases medieval research and offers an opportunity for graduate scholars covering several subject areas and […]
Continue ReadingCall for papers for the 2022 graduate conference: ‘‘What Does the Poem Think?’: Aesthetics, Poetics and Thought’
A call for papers has been put out for the 2022 post-1750 graduate conference: ‘‘What Does the Poem Think?’: Aesthetics, Poetics and Thought’. Taking its lead from Percy Shelley’s assertion that poetry ‘marks the before unapprehend relations of things’, the call for papers asks respondents to consider the ways and means in which poetry apprehends, […]
Continue ReadingMeena Venkataramanan writes an author profile of Jean Chen Ho for the L.A. Times, January 2022
Link to Meena Venkataramanan’s author profile of Jean Chen Ho: ‘Are you a Fiona or a Jane? Jean Chen Ho’s debut captures a bittersweet L.A. friendship’ Meena Venkataramanan is an M.Phil. Candidate in English Studies in the Faculty of English and Pembroke College, and is a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Continue ReadingSubmissions open for 2022 BBC National Short Story and BBC Young Writers’ Awards
The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) and BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University (YWA) open for submissions at 9am on Thursday 13th January 2022 with award-winning novelist, journalist and broadcaster Elizabeth Day chairing the judging panel for the BBC NSSA, an award that has enriched both the careers of […]
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