Faculty of English

LIVE PERFORMANCE Sophie Seita performs Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers 4.30pm Sat 6 Jul, SPACE Mare St with: Emma Attwood, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, Simone Kearney, Erin Robinsong, Jocelyn Spaar, and Naomi Woo In her closing performance, artist Sophie Seita explores a whimsical and magical world of female friendship and immodesty, where jewels sing and books talk […]

Jamie Fenton has been awarded a place on the AHRC International Placement Scheme, which will allow him to spend four months as a researcher at the Library of Congress from January 2020. The International Placement Scheme (IPS) is an annual programme providing Research Fellowships to AHRC/ESRC-funded doctoral students, early career researchers and doctoral-level research assistants. […]

Ewan Jones has been awarded a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond fellowship, which will permit him to spend the academic year 2019/2020 at the School of Advanced Study in Uppsala. During this time he will complete his second book, which gives an account of the history of the concept of rhythm. http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/News/2019/Fellows_2019-20_190618.html

Insurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were not merely victims, but also agents whose resistance both contributed to their own liberation and shaped British ideas about freedom and who could be free. Link to more information about ‘Insurgent Empire’.

Helen was awarded the prize, which is for excellence in technology-enabled learning, at the Pilkington Teaching Prizes Awards Ceremony on 25 June 2019. Link to further information about the prize. Link to more information about CamGuides, and the Cambridge Information Literacy Network, of which this is a product.  

In the second year of the University of Cambridge Centre for Creative Writing’s partnership with the BBC we will celebrate the short story through a wide range of events with award-winning authors, publishers, agents and judges. There will be talks, workshops, panel discussions and conversation with authors including Tessa Hadley (in conversation with Dame Gillian […]

The Faculty is collaborating with the Prince’s Teaching Institute (https://www.ptieducation.org/) on an English Enrichment Residential in Cambridge, 29 June-1 July.  Members of the Faculty have been working with the PTI to deliver research-led, academically inspiring CPD to secondary-school teachers for over a decade.  By helping teachers to re-engage with the academic subject they love, the […]

This is the third instalment in Jan’s series of books on the relationship between literature, theology, and English Law. Her first book considered the relationship between the legal rules of evidence and narrative form, and her second book focused on literature’s preoccupation with justice and ethics. The new monograph, ‘Censorship and the Representation of the […]

Sophie Seita’s first solo show—My Little Enlightenment Plays—presents imaginary tête-à-têtes with Enlightenment figures through a selection of videos, sound pieces, texts, performance props and costumes. The exhibition opens on Thursday 13 June with My Little Enlightenment, performed by Seita with live electronic sound by Rhodri Karim. The exhibition continues until 6 July, closing with a performance of Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers on the Saturday at 4.30pm. More info […]

Wednesday 12 June, 5.15pm-7.15pm, Scientiae 2019 Conference, Queen’s University Belfast: ‘Ways of Knowing’ Plenary panel led by Dr Subha Mukherji Anupam Basu (Washington) “Knowledge domains within the Early Modern printed corpus” Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest) “Reason and emotion in Robert Boyle’s moral and natural religious thought” Torrance Kirby (McGill) “A Form of the forms of knowing: […]