In the wake of Simon & Schuster US’s decision to downgrade book blurbs, Professor Wilson contributed a few words about the history of the book blurb to a piece in The Economist (paywalled) and had a longer conversation on the subject with David Marr on Late Night Live, ABC Radio (Australia), which can be heard […]
Continue ReadingDiscover Faculty of English events at the Cambridge Festival, 19 March-4 April 2025
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Continue ReadingProf. Michael D. Hurley is lecturing at the Oxford Thomistic Institute on 3rd March on the subject of The Theological Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ.
The lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. For further details, see here.
Continue ReadingDr. Hannah Lucas is awarded Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship
Dr. Hannah Lucas, Newby Trust Research Fellow at Newnham College, has been awarded a prestigious Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The AvH Foundation funds outstanding postdoctoral researchers from around the world to conduct research at any academic institution in Germany. Dr. Lucas will take up the Fellowship from October 2025, jointly affiliated […]
Continue ReadingEva Dema elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows
Eva Dema has been awarded a Junior Fellowship in the Harvard Society of Fellows. Supported by this three-year research award (2025-28), she will aim to publish her doctoral thesis as a monograph, before starting work on a new research project. While her thesis constitutes the first book-length study of Thomas Hardy’s poetry manuscripts, her second […]
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan is awarded a Fellowship at the Herder Institute in Marburg, Germany
The Herder Institute is an internationally renowned centre for research on Eastern Central Europe. Its Fellowship Program enables a short-term, intensive research stay in the library and the scientific collections of the Institute. Juliette Bretan will be there for one month, in July 2025. Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale talks about his work in progress on medieval witchcraft at King’s College on 27 February
Professor Bale is giving his paper as part of the King’s College Medieval Questions series. The title of the talk is ‘The first witch: how do we approach the Kilkenny witch-trial of 1324?’
Continue ReadingAnthony Bale’s ‘A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ appears in Czech translation, February 2025
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: the World through Medieval Eyes by Professor Anthony Bale appears in Czech translation on 12 February, as Středověký turista: Poutníci, učenci a špioni na cestách. The translator is Marek Sečkař and it is published by Host. Details: https://www.hostbrno.cz/bale-anthony/ This adds to the various languages it has already appeared […]
Continue ReadingDr Rachel Bryan’s new monograph is published by Cambridge University Press, January 2025
Dr Rachel Bryan’s new monograph, Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War, was published by Cambridge University Press on 9 January 2025. Link to further information: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/twentieth-century-literature-and-aftermath-war?format=HB
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