This event is part of the AHRC-funded Sterne Digital Library project, a collaborative project between Northumbria University, the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library and the Laurence Sterne Trust. It is free to attend, but please register by 16 July. Link to more information about the conference Link to the registration page
Continue ReadingAlex Wong’s second collection of poetry, ‘Shadow and Refrain’, is published by Carcanet Press, May 2021
Alex Wong (CTO at St John’s College) publishes his next attempt at a poetry collection, Shadow and Refrain (Carcanet). Please support ailing independent publishing industry in its noble effort to keep in print authors whose books don’t sell: copies are available directly from Carcanet, with an introductory discount. https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=2372 164 pp. of bang-and-whimper for one’s […]
Continue Reading‘The Places of Early Modern Criticism’, edited by Gavin Alexander in collaboration with Cambridge colleagues Emma Gilby (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics) and Alexander Marr (Department of History of Art), has been published by Oxford University Press
The book derives from a CRASSH conference in 2015 and gathers contributions from fifteen early modernists working across a range of disciplines. What is criticism? And where is it to be found? Thinking about literature and the visual arts is found in many places – in treatises, apologies, and paragoni; in prefaces, letters, and essays; […]
Continue ReadingDr Ewan Jones awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the academic year 2021/22
In the academic year 2021/22, Dr Ewan Jones will take up a Leverhulme Research Grant on the topic of ‘Close Reading as Attentional Practice: 1860-1920’. As part of the grant, he will be co-organising a seminar on attention at the Warburg Institute, with Professor Lorraine Daston. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/listings?field_grant_scheme_target_id=11
Continue ReadingThomas Gray among the Disciplines: A Workshop, 30th July 2021
A multidisciplinary workshop exploring Thomas Gray’s scholarship will take place on Zoom on the 250th anniversary of his death, 30th July 2021. Outline and Schedule: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/eighteenth/?page_id=1075 Eventbrite registration for the Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-gray-among-the-disciplines-tickets-157759618265
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace gave the sixth Annual Classics and English Lecture at the University of Oxford on Monday 26th April
The title of Dr Wallace’s lecture was “Tragedy Since 9/11”. The lecture was streamed on YouTube and followed by a live Q&A. To listen to the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN_nkYa1Q2o
Continue ReadingDr Orietta da Rold is interviewed by Italian local magazine, ‘Il Veses’
To read the article: https://ilveses.com/orietta-da-rold/
Continue ReadingFind out about Faculty of English Virtual Undergraduate Open Days in 2021
Cambridge Virtual Undergraduate Open Days take place 5-18 July 2021 and allow prospective applicants from Year 12 (or equivalent) to find out about the University and Colleges from pre-recorded presentations about courses, the Colleges and departments, the application process, student life, and finance. There is also the opportunity to ask current students and staff questions […]
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