The Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity are holding an joint online study evening on Thursday 27 January 2022. The event is aimed at students in Years 11 and 12 with an interest in literature, performance, theology, religion, and philosophy of religion – especially those who may be considering studying these subjects at […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Sarah Dillon was on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’ to discuss ‘The Day of the Triffids’, Thursday 2 December 2021
Professor Sarah Dillon joined presenter Matthew Sweet to discuss the resonance of John Wyndham’s novel, The Day of the Triffids, 60 years on from its publication. Other guests were writers Amy Binns and Tanvir Bush, and broadcaster Peter White. Sarah Dillon is a Radio 3 New Generation Thinker. Her most recent book is ‘Storylistening: Narrative […]
Continue ReadingDr Helen Thaventhiran is quoted in Guardian article about PM’s oratorical style, November 2021
Link to the article: ‘The Peppa problem: why did Boris Johnson’s CBI speech bomb so badly?’
Continue ReadingDr Rebecca Anne Barr is awarded the 2022-23 Crausaz Wordsworth Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Philosophy at CRASSH
The aim of the Fellowship is to enable scholars developing interests in philosophical study from an interdisciplinary perspective to spend additional time exploring these. Dr Barr’s project is on ‘Philosophies of Laughter in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Fiction’. Once designated the ‘Age of Reason’, the eighteenth century has been recast in recent work as the ‘Age of […]
Continue Reading‘Forms of Late Modernist Lyric’, edited by Edward Allen, and featuring the work of several members of the Faculty of English, is published by Liverpool University press, November 2021
A collection of essays entitled Forms of Late Modernist Lyric has been published by Liverpool University Press. Edited by Edward Allen, and featuring the work of several members of the Faculty of English – Ruth Abbott, Fiona Green, Drew Milne, Esther Osorio Whewell, and Sophie Read – the collection makes the case for a variegated theory of […]
Continue Reading‘Oh, to Be a Painter!’ Claudia Tobin selects and introduces a collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts
The twentieth volume in David Zwirner Books’ ekphrasis series (published late November 2021), this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the author. Despite wide interest in Woolf’s writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no accessible edition or selection of […]
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan’s peer-reviewed article on Bruno Schulz & X-rays is published in the first ‘Lost Modernists’ blog cluster, November 2021
The title of the article is ‘Bruno Schulz’s X–ray Aesthetics: Anxiety, Titillation, Exposure’. Link to the article. Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English and Newnham College.
Continue ReadingNew book published, co-edited by Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi – ‘Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing’, November 2021
Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing Edited by Florian Mussgnug, Mathelinda Nabugodi and Thea Petrou This book is an offering: it contains eighteen essays in honour of Timothy Mathews, written by leading scholars in the fields of French, Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Creative Critical Writing. These essays examine the power of serendipitous […]
Continue ReadingDr Zoë Svendsen is interviewed by ‘The Stage’ about her new role of ‘climate dramturg’ at London’s Donmar Warehouse, November 2021
Dr Zoë Svendsen, already an associate artist at the Donmar Warehouse, talks to Nicholas Davies of The Stage about what her new role of ‘climate dramaturg’ entails and how theatre can explore climate-conscious practices. Link to the interview.
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