Dr Subha Mukherji participated in the Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies Racial Diversity Forum on Saturday 25th January, at the Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, London.
Continue ReadingQueer TRASH! at the Junction, Cambridge. 20 February 2020, 7.30pm. Pay What You Feel.
‘Baby, I am the garbage.’— James Schuyler Queer trash in a profusion of permutations, inhering in trash or adhering to queerness, in any case soiled and impure, gorgeously stained, promiscuous, perhaps, certainly fabulous, certainly sustainable. An evening of queer trash-themed performances by: Timberlina (Mother’s Ruin) Owen G Parry (Fan Riot) Roy Claire Potter (Shady Dealings […]
Continue ReadingThe Old Library at Magdalene College is open on Thursday 6th February from 11am to 1pm
The Old Library at Magdalene College is open on Thursday 6th February 2020 from 11am to 1pm. This is a chance to see the medieval building, with its collection of books dating back to the fifteenth century. There will be a special display, curated by M E J Hughes, on twentieth-century first editions in English […]
Continue ReadingDr Joe Jarrett publishes ‘Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama’ (Palgrave Macmillan)
Dr Jarrett’s book, Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama, has just been published with Palgrave Macmillan, in their series of books on Literature, Science and Medicine. It is the first book to examine the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of early modern drama. It examines how the […]
Continue ReadingJoin us at the Judith E. Wilson Studio as we welcome back English and Robinson College alumnus, Toby Marlow, 12pm-1.30pm, 22 January 2020
Toby Marlow in conversation Graduate Drama and Performance Seminar Judith E. Wilson Studio 12:00-1:30pm 22nd January 2020 Join us at the Judith E. Wilson Studio as we welcome back English and Robinson College alumnus, Toby Marlow. He is one half of the writing duo behind ‘SIX’, a pop concert musical about the six wives of […]
Continue ReadingMigrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond
Migrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond Convened by Subha Mukherji, Rowan Williams, Natalya Din-Kariuki and Carla Suthren By Dr Subha Mukherji Between clusters of stars And the borders of a river Yousif Qasmiyeh Unattached as tumble weed W.H. Auden People, things, ideas and languages have crossed borders since the earliest of times. Such passages […]
Continue ReadingDr Mina Gorji contributes to ‘John Clare’s Scraping’, BBC Sounds, 12 January 2020.
Dr Mina Gorji contributes to ‘John Clare’s Scraping’, first broadcast on BBC Sounds on Sunday 12 January 2020. For the 200th anniversary of John Clare’s poems, this programme takes a look at the music and songs he gathered. For more information and to listen to the programme go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d6sh
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace speaks on the keynote Presidential Panel at the MLA convention in Seattle, 10 January 2020
Jennifer Wallace speaks on the keynote Presidential Panel at the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) convention in Seattle on Friday 10th January, on the subject of “Being Human”. https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/8184
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