Faculty of English

Trudi Tate has organised two summer courses for Literature Cambridge. Virginia Woolf and Politics was held at Wolfson College, 1-6 July, and Women Writers: Emily Bronte to Elizabeth Bowen took place at Homerton College, 8-13 July. There were lectures, seminars, supervisions, and excursions to places of interest in Cambridge. Enthusiastic students aged from 17 to […]

Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England https://www.amazon.co.uk/Poetry-Vision-England-Literature-History/dp/3319710168/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1527444157&sr=8-4&keywords=poetry+and+vision This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry’s own relation to truth. Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision […]

Join us for this one-day event on 7 July at Madingley Hall, featuring talks, seminars, panel discussions and workshops by leading short story writers, academics and representatives from the world of publishing. Some sessions are free to attend, and there will be book signings throughout the day. Speakers include: Michèle Roberts, Irenosen Okojie, Zoe Gilbert, Tibor Fischer, Sarah […]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9w0vq

Dr Leo Mellor lectures on ‘What British prose learnt from documentary film: some islands, trains, planes & spare time of the 1930s’ at the University of Freiburg on Wednesday 4 July 2018.

Sophie Seita is among this year’s faculty for the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, whose programme focuses on Art and the Poetics of Praxis in Cognitive Capitalism in 2018. Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is a nomadic, intensive summer academy with shifting programs in contemporary critical theory. SFSIA stresses an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between art and […]

Dr Sophie Seita presents an installation and performance of Emilia Galotti’s Colouring Book of Feelings. The project combines poetic dialogue, choreography, sculptural garments, text, projections, video, and audio recordings. Funded by a Public Engagement Starter Grant and Cambridge Humanities Research Grant. Details: 7 July 2018 Performance: 8pm Installation: 6pm-midnight Venue: Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, Floor […]

Dr Laura Davies and Dr Emma Salgård Cunha have edited a special edition of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. It is entitled ‘Writing Eighteenth-Century Religion’ and includes an article by Dr Philip Connell, ‘Afterword: Writing Religion and the Genealogy of the Literary Aesthetic’. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17540208/2018/41/2

Paper-Stuff: Materiality, Technology and Invention 10-11 September 2018 University of Cambridge, Faculty of English Under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts and the Writing Britain Conference Series The introduction of paper to the West was a major technological innovation that transformed the ways in which texts of all kinds were transmitted. Having proved […]

Currently on display in the Cambridge English Faculty exhibition space (first floor) are a number of video works (selected by Dr Sophie Seita), broadsides (published by Ian Heames), and Poets Theater materials (compiled by Kevin Killian)—in conjunction with the Polyphonic Poetry and Performance Festival, curated by Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn.