Monstrum, by Lottie Mills, a short story collection published by Oneworld in 2024, has been longlisted for the 2025 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, the world’s largest and most prestigious literary prize for young writers. Lottie Mills is a current English MPhil student at Newnham College, as well as a Newnham graduate. Link to more […]
Continue ReadingOn 4 February, the British Library Eccles Institute hosts a Webinar to celebrate publication of ‘Matoaka, Pocahontas, Rebecca: Her Atlantic Identities and Afterlives’, co-edited by Dr Amy Morris
Want to learn more about Matoaka/Pocahontas and Her story, people & legacy Her captivity, conversion & London trip The archive & its limits Indigenous art & expression? Join us on Tuesday 4 February 5pm UK/12pm NYC/9am PST for an online panel discussion and Q & A about the life and legacy of Matoaka/Pocahontas to celebrate […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale discusses Pope Joan on ‘In Our Time’ – broadcast date, 30 January 2025
Anthony Bale appears on BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ to talk about the myth of Pope Joan. The broadcast date is Thursday 30 January, BBC Radio 4, 9am (repeated Sunday, 11pm). After broadcast, the programme can be listened to on BBC Sounds. The discussion is chaired by Melvyn Bragg. The panellists for this episode are: […]
Continue Reading‘Medieval Women and Curating Manuscripts in the 21st Century’: Anthony Bale in conversation with Julian Harrison of the British Library, 30 January 2025
‘Medieval Women and Curating Manuscripts in the 21st Century’ Thursday 30 January 5.30pm-7pm Stanley Library, Girton College Julian Harrison (Curator of Medieval Manuscripts at the British Library and Co-curator of the current Medieval Women exhibition at the BL) and Professor Anthony Bale explore the possibilities and challenges of using digital technology to bring medieval authors […]
Continue ReadingBonnie Lander Johnson publishes two books with Cambridge University Press
Bonnie Lander Johnson has two books out this month with Cambridge University Press: a monograph, Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare’s England and The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants
Continue ReadingProfessor Clare Pettit speaks at ‘Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum’, Institute of Classical Studies, 5 February 2025
‘Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum’ is a joint seminar of the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum and the Institute of Classical Studies (School of Advanced Studies, University of London). Wednesday 5 February 2025 4pm to 6.30pm Location: room 264, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E […]
Continue ReadingOrlando Reade lectures on ‘Paradise Lost’ and the Black Radical Tradition, Queens’ College, 6 February
Orlando Reade, “Awake! Arise! Paradise Lost and the Black Radical Tradition.” Thursday, 6 February 2025, 5:30 p.m. Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens’ College Orlando Reade studied at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and then at Princeton, where he received a PhD in 2020. He is now assistant professor of English at Northeastern University, London. His first book, What […]
Continue ReadingNew Book Published by Dr Hannah Lucas, January 2025
Dr. Hannah Lucas, Newby Trust Research Fellow at Newnham College, has published Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being with Columbia University Press. Description: The medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–after 1416) is the first known woman to author a book in the English language, recognized today for her strikingly optimistic claim that […]
Continue ReadingCall for Papers for ‘The Craft, Texture, and Aesthetics of Letter Forms from Antiquity to the Present’, an international conference, 2-4 September 2025, University of Cambridge, Faculty of English
The Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; Stanford Text Technologies, Stanford University, and The University Library Research Institute are delighted to announce a Call for Papers for the international conference ‘The Craft, Texture, and Aesthetics of Letter Forms from Antiquity to the Present’. Venue: University of Cambridge, Faculty of English Dates: 2nd to 4th September […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Clare Pettitt gives the J Stubbs Lecture in English Literature, University of Toronto, January 2025
Professor Clare Pettitt gives the 2024-25 J Stubbs Lecture in English Literature at University College, University of Toronto, on 22 January 2025. The title of the lecture is ‘White Gold: Extractive Logic and Seriality in the Nineteenth Century’. Link to further information and to register for In-Person or Virtual attendance: https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/events/2024-25-s-j-stubbs-lecture-english-literature
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