Jade Cuttle, a PhD student at the Faculty, recently appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Feature. In the programme, she retraced the fenland journeys of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and reflected on his enduring ties to Cambridge. Jade was selected as a BBC New Generation Thinker through the Arts and Humanities Research Council scheme that brings […]
Continue ReadingDr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston publishes a chapter in ‘The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature’ (LUP, 2026)
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature (Liverpool University Press, 2026) is edited by Christopher Cusack, Bridget English, and Matthew L. Reznicek. Dr Houston’s chapter is on ‘James Joyce’s “The Sisters”: Irish Modernism and the Sexually Pathological Corpse’. Link to further information: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244837
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on what Aldous Huxley can teach us about Mind Control — broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day
Listen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on what Aldous Huxley can teach us about Mind Control — broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n1dpwy And Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4OO3QCCR8T8oaEilCfvMBY
Continue ReadingProf Sarah Dillon speaker at LSE Narratives in Policy-making event
On Tuesday 17th February, Sarah Dillon will join other panelists for a discussion of narratives in policy-making, at the London School of Economics. The event marks the publication of the LSE Public Policy Review journal’s special issue on Narratives in Policy-making, in which Sarah, along with collaborators, has published her most recent storylistening work.
Continue ReadingRoss Wilson gives a public lecture at Concordia University, Montreal, 17th February
Ross Wilson will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Walter Benjamin’s Power of Judging’ for the Center of Expanded Poetics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, 17th February. Further details here: https://www.centreforexpandedpoetics.com/events-1/2026/2/17/ross-wilson-benjamins-power-of-judging
Continue ReadingDominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga’s filmmaking
Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a new article on Tsitsi Dangarembga in Interventions, the international journal of postcolonial studies. The essay explores how Dangarembga’s documentary film, Elephant People, depicts community-based wildlife conservation initiatives in southern Africa. Read the essay here.
Continue ReadingProfessor Alex Houen publishes an essay in C21’s Roundtable Review of Timothy Bewes’s ‘Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age’
Professor Alex Houen has published an essay in C21: Journal of 21st-Century Writing. The title of the essay is ‘Free Indirect Thought Felt and Lived’ and it is one of multiple collated responses to Timothy Bewes’s book, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022). Link to journal and essay: https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/25944/
Continue ReadingDr Helen Charman appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Free Thinking’ discussing labour, productivity and reproduction
Dr Helen Charman appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking, discussing labour, productivity and reproduction. Broadcast on Friday 30 January 2026, you can listen to the programme here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qh2x
Continue ReadingAudrey Chan publishes ‘Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia’, Bloomsbury Press, December 2025
Audrey Chan is the co-author, with Jack Pun, of ‘Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia: Culture, Discipline, Best Practice and Clinicians’ Voices in the Chinese Context’, published by Bloomsbury Studies in Language and Healthcare, December 2025. Link to further details: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring-clinical-communication-in-asia-9781350298118/) Funding: Jim & Nancy Hinkle Student Travel Grants awarded by the Hemingway Society.
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives a Distinguished Visiting Lecture at the University of Hong Kong, February 2026
Professor Anthony Bale will talk on ‘Conflict, Novelty and Print: The Birth of News Writing in the West’ on Thursday 5 February as part of the University of Hong Kong’s Distinguished Lecture Series, 2025-26. During this visit to the University of Hong Kong’s School of English, Professor Bale will also lead a Workshop on ‘The […]
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