‘Attention and Distraction’: Cambridge University’s annual student-organised graduate conference on literature before 1750 Friday, 20 April (13:00-19:00), at CU Faculty of English (GR 06/07). For pre-modern readers, what did it mean to ‘attend’ (or fail to attend) to a text? What is the role of boredom and distraction in the reading process? How do we […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Kennedy publishes ‘T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination’, March 2018
Dr Sarah Kennedy’s book, T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination, is published by Cambridge University Press in March 2018. How is a poem made? From what constellation of inner and outer worlds does it issue forth? In her book T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Sarah Kennedy asks these questions in relation to […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita hosts Screening and Q&A with Uisenma Borchu as Part of UCU Teach Out, 15 March 2018
Film Screening & Q&A with Uisenma Borchu Schau Mich Nicht So An / Don’t Look at Me That Way, by Uisenma Borchu Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens’ College, 15 March 2018, 2.30-4.30pm Part of UCU Teach-Out Programme Hosted by Sophie Seita Trailer: https://vimeo.com/166792779
Continue ReadingMagdalene Festival of Change Event: Translation/Transformation – a Symposium and Workshop, Saturday 10 March 2018
On Saturday 10 March, a symposium on Translation will be hosted at Magdalene College, under the joint auspices of the English and Modern Languages departments, as part of the College’s Festival of Change. Speakers will be Professor of Italian, Robin Kirkpatrick, German translator Dr Sophie Seita, and the award-winning Hungarian poet, George Szirtes, in a […]
Continue ReadingDr Mary Newbould discusses Laurence Sterne’s ‘A Sentimental Journey’ on BBC Radio 3, 1 March 2018
Dr Mary Newbould discusses the influence of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, on ‘Free Thinking’, BBC Radio 3, 10pm, Thursday 1 March. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09t2g8g
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita performs at the opening of an art exhibition on Post-Truth, CRASSH, 9 March 2018
Sophie Seita will perform ‘Making Light: In the Temple of Formidable Hypotheses’ for Reality Machines, an exhibition curated by Dr Mara Polgofsky (Queens’), at CRASSH, 9 March 2018, 7pm. The performance is part of the exhibition preview and opening reception. The exhibition and catalogue feature work by: Forensic Architecture Virginia Colwell (USA) Máximo Corvalán (Chile) Alejandra España (Mexico) Angelo Ferreira […]
Continue ReadingJoyce to Beckett: Ireland and Modernism – a two-day conference at Magdalene College, Cambridge, 22-23 March 2018
A major, international, two-day conference, JOYCE TO BECKETT: IRELAND AND MODERNISM, with participants – several from the English Faculty – chosen by John Kerrigan will be held at Magdalene College on 22-23 March. The distinguished line-up of speakers includes many of the leading figures in Irish studies across several generations, as well as creative writers […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Dame Gillian Beer’s ‘ Alice in Space’ issued in paperback, January 2018
Chicago University Press has issued the paperback edition of Professor Dame Gillian Beer’s Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo22991911.html
Continue ReadingDr Ross Wilson talks about ‘love letters’ on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, February 2018
Dr Ross Wilson gave an interview on ‘love letters’ for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Thordis at Drivetime on 14 February 2018. Link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05w68n6; Dr Wilson’s interview starts at about 20:20.
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