Faculty of English

As university students head into the summer term, lecturer Louise Joy shares the choices that students must make around their education in a piece for Times Higher Education. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/blogs/choices-facing-students-they-head-summer-term#survey-answer  

Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) has been named a New Generation Thinker by a joint committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC. Defined as an academic who ‘brings the best of university research and scholarly ideas to a broad audience through the media and public engagement’, New Generation […]

Published by Contraband Books, Territories is a collection of texts and images based on a series of site-specific expanded cinema performances staged between 2015 and 2018 by Yvonne Salmon and James Riley. Each of the texts deal with ‘occulted’ or otherwise obscured spaces. As Salmon and Riley put it in their introduction: “Working on the […]

Dr Kasia Boddy’s new book ‘Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Flowers and People’ is published by Yale University Press on 28 April 2020. https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300243338 “Blooming Flowers is a gorgeously lush evocation of twelve different flowers, each one steeped in its own stories, cultural associations and botanical wonder. It is not just a sunny celebration of […]

Strange Attractor Press have recently published Of Mud & Flame a sourcebook of material relating to David Rudkin and Alan Clarke’s legendary television film Penda’s Fen (1974). The volume is edited by Matthew Harle and James Machin and features an essay by Yvonne Salmon (Cambridge), director of The Alchemical Landscape project on ‘Penda’s Fen and […]

On Friday 28 February, Dr Mina Gorji joined host Ian McMillan, fellow poets John McAuliffe, Igor Klikovac, André Naffis-Sahely, and songwriter Ana Silvera to explore the language of leaving, resettling and exile.  The programme is available to listen to again here.

Dr Sarah Dillon and Dr Kanta Dihal, along with Dr Stephen Cave, have just published AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines with Oxford University Press. This edited collection brings together twenty contributors from across disciplines to examine the representation of intelligent machines in the Anglophone Western imagination, focusing in particular on […]

WRITING DANCE WORKSHOPS: PRACTICE AS THEORY, THEORY AS PRACTICE 12 March 2020 Bringing together award-winning dancers, Clemmie Sveaas, Jonathan Goddard, Jasmine Chiu and CRASSH dance workshop collaborators, this practice-based workshop will explore how writing can be used to develop choreographic methods. As a group we will experiment by writing alongside dance, writing as dance stimuli […]

Professor Dame Gillian Beer and Dr Trudi Tate will be in conversation with Sarah Taylor, Ellie Mitchell and others about Virginia Woolf’s novel, The Waves, which Sarah Taylor has adapted for the ADC Theatre. Friday 28 February 2020, 6pm, ADC Bar . www.adctheatre.com/waves