Faculty of English

Link to the Spring 2021 issue of 9 West Road.  

Sarah Jilani is a British-Turkish researcher and culture journalist who has studied films, fiction and art looking at subjectivity and decolonisation in post-independence (1950s-80s) Africa and South Asia. Her academic research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Literature/Film Quarterly, Women: A Cultural Review and Life Writing, while her freelance writing […]

Barrie Cooke’s archive is a treasure trove of previously unseen poems, personal letters and literary papers written by Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and other writers, as well as electrifying drawings and paintings by Cooke, inspired by his friends.  The archive was acquired by Pembroke College, Cambridge. Link to the podcast.  

Draw from Within was one of the earliest new dance pieces created during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was a hugely ambitious work to create technically as it was conceived to be performed and consumed as a live stream globally. So rather than performing “in front of” cameras Rambert Dancers performed with cameras “within” the production, […]

American English: Dialogues in Dialect 26 March – 4 April on demand talk and children’s activity pack Link to 30-minute talk by Molly Becker aimed at adults, which goes live on 26 March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGRgWxwKMZI There is also a short introduction to dialect aimed at children aged 8-12, which looks at how dialect influences the words […]

We are now accepting abstracts for “O’ you wonder!”: Worldviews in Pre-1750 Literature.  This virtual conference will take place on 17th and 18th April 2021. The early modern period witnessed unique and rapid epistemological expansion, as the world was ‘discovered’, colonised and conceptualised. Literature became a portal by which to experience this ever-expanding world and […]

In a wide-ranging conversation for the “Faith and Imagination” podcast, Dr Hurley speaks with the Director of the Humanities Center at BYU about his recent book, “Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief”. Dr Hurley addresses the question of what poets (and readers) believe poetry can say or do that other […]

Fiona Green joins Thomas Keymer, Juliette Atkinson, Colin Burrow, and Daniel Wakelin as an Editor of the Review of English Studies. RES was founded in 1925 to publish literary-historical research in all areas of English literature and the English language from the earliest period to the present. Link to the Review of English Studies.

Co-edited by M-C Newbould and W B Gerard, ‘Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey: A Legacy to the World’, is the first essay collection devoted exclusively to A Sentimental Journey and some of Sterne’s ‘lesser-known’ works, such as The Bramine’s Journal.  It partly represents the fruits of a conference organised by Dr Newbould at Jesus College […]

Panellists include Marina Warner, Alice Oswald, Mark Cocker and Grzegorz Kwiatkowski; there will be contributions from a range of other writers and scholars. Registration is open to members of the Ted Hughes Society and its partner associations, and members of Pembroke College. Link to more details of the seminar, and details of how to become […]