Faculty of English

Working with Film Archives: a Decolonial Approach Thu, 27 October 2022, 16:00 – 19:00 BST Faculty of English Drama Studio (basement level) Faculty of English Cambridge CB3 9DP ‘Working with Film Archives: a Decolonial Approach’ is a Workshop featuring the films of two documentarians. We will be screening Ilana Navaro’s Josephine Baker: Une Icone Noire […]

‘The Functions of Criticism’ will be a two-day conference held on 19-20 May 2023, at the University of Cambridge. The keynotes will be Rita Felski (University of Virginia), Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University), and Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge), with further speakers to be announced. This event will be an interdisciplinary conference exploring questions of function, […]

This volume provides a major assessment of the work of Walter de la Mare, and promises to restore his reputation as one of the most memorably haunting of poets, as well as a peculiarly unnerving writer of ghost stories. The collection includes wide-ranging essays on de la Mare’s poetry, stories, novels, reviews, and lectures, as well as […]

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In celebration of National Poetry Day, Waterstones, Cambridge, will be hosting a poetry reading with a number of local authors including their headline poet,  Mina Gorji. The reading will be followed by a 30 minute open mic session.  The National Poetry Day theme for 2022 is ‘The Environment’. All are welcome but booking is required. […]

The names on the shortlist are: Kerry Andrew, Jenn Ashworth, Anna Bailey, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Saba Sams Jenn Ashworth, an alum of the Cambridge English Faculty and Professor of Creative Writing at Lancaster University, has this year published her fourth novel, Ghosted. Link to further information about the shortlisters: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3mQlv5FsMJPkqwmFw1wMDlW/meet-the-shortlist-2022  

The article, ‘An unlikely artistic alliance: the wartime Britons who saved and celebrated German art’, is about a little-known exhibition of Mid-European Art in Leicester in 1944 which led to the creation of a permanent exhibition of German Expressionist works (including by Franz Marc and Käthe Kollwitz) in the city. Link to the article: An […]

They were given writing workshops from Rupert Wallis and Nick Bradley of ICE/Madingley Hall, a tour of Newnham College, and a session in the rare books room of the University Library. The winner of both the YWA and the National short story Prize will be announced on Tuesday 4th October in Broadcasting House, London. Here […]

The 2022 Graham Storey Lecture will be held on 24 October at 5.15pm in Lady Mitchell Hall on the Sidgwick Site. This year’s lecture, “Art & Political Ecology: Extraction” will be given by Hazel V Carby, the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies […]

The Radical Art in Cambridge research group (Lucy Howie, Alina Khakoo and Amy Tobin) is delighted to host a roundtable discussion on Wednesday 26 October, 5–7pm in the Faculty of English. This event will map the lost history of experimental art making and organising in Cambridge in the 1980s. It will focus on arts organisations in and […]