Faculty of English

Join us at Heffers to celebrate the launch of James Riley’s new book, Well Beings: How the Seventies Lost its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves. Concepts such as wellness and self-care may feel like distinctly twenty-first century ideas, but they first gained traction as part of the New Age health movements that began […]

Eva Dema has been awarded the 2023 Review of English Studies Essay Prize for her article ‘‘Sacred to the Memory’: Thomas Hardy’s Tombstones’. Launched in 1999, the prize is awarded annually to an article on any topic of English literature or the English language from the earliest period to the present, and is open to […]

Textiles are material objects, which are produced according to well-planned processes. Such a procedural nature favours multiple analogies between textiles and digitality – and raises, at the same time, resistance to these very associations. Weaving has become, in current discourse, a convenient ancestor of computing. By connecting computer history to a material craft, textiles offer […]

Dr Hester’s programme focuses on Smith’s incendiary 1963 film ‘Flaming Creatures’, which was banned in the US and championed by the likes of Susan Sontag. It features interviews with film historian J Hoberman and performance artist Penny Arcade, and a visit to Smith’s archive at the Fales Library and Special Collections (facilitated by a Faculty […]

On Saturday 16 March, members of the public were invited to participate in the mixed-reality production of ‘Faust Shop 2.0’ at Cambridge Central Library in a performance directed and produced by CDH Associates Dr Annja Neumann and Alex Mentzel for the Cambridge Festival. Participants were introduced to Homunculus – a digital, multi-dimensional artificial life created […]

Dr Siddharth Soni contributes to Cambridge Imagines 2024, a fascinating series of short films with researchers at Cambridge who are imagining the future. Dr Soni was the Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) and the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). He lectures in many areas of modern […]

Code As Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies, a one-day conference on 1 June at Cambridge Digital Humanities – interested in the conversational capacities of code – opens for registration on Thursday 4 April Keynote: Critiquing Code Alignment: Tracing “Forward Alignment” and “Backward Alignment” in Critical Code Studies, David Berry (Professor of Digital Humanities, […]

Sean McEvoy (Murray Edwards) will be the guest on an upcoming episode of The Play Podcast, talking about Jez Butterworth’s new play The Hills of California, which opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London in January. Sean wrote Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth (Palgrave, 2021). The podcast will be released later […]

The programme includes: Talks about Byron, by academics and writers including Bernard Beatty, Drummond Bone, Clare Bucknell, Will Bowers, Christine Kenyon Jones, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Seamus Perry, Diego Saglia, Dan Sperrin, Jane Stabler, Fiona Stafford, A.E. Stallings, Andrew Stauffer, Corin Throsby, Clara Tuite, Ross Wilson. A concert featuring settings of Byron’s poems by Schumann, Wolf and […]

Amy Morris publishes ‘Edward Taylor and Assemblage Art’, an essay interpreting the writings of a colonial American poet with the help of twentieth-century sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson and Joseph Cornell. Published in The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture and Art ed. Matthew Pethers and Daniel Couch (Bucknell University Press), […]