Dr Subha Mukherji and Dr Tim Stuart-Buttle edit ‘Literature, Belief and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Knowing Faith’, published May 2018
Our book series with Palgrave Macmillan, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature (general editors: Holmes, R. E., Mukherji, S., Stuart-Buttle, T., Swann, E. L., Tomlin, R.), has now launched with the e-book publication of the first volume in the series on 21 May 2018. Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature rewrites the story of early modern […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon to present at CogX: The Festival of All Things AI, Blockchain and Emerging Technologies
As part of her work as a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and co-Project Lead of the AI Narratives Project, Dr Sarah Dillon is taking part in CogX 2018, a major festival of AI and emerging technologies being held in London on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th June. […]
Continue Reading‘Law and the Arts: Staging Law, Performing Trials’, 3 July 2018, Old Divinity School, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
Law and the Arts: Staging Law, Performing Trials 3 July 2018 Old Divinity School, St John’s College, University of Cambridge A three-part public event embedded in the conference, Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond (2-4 July, 2018). This event, involving actors, visual artists and legal professionals, comprises: a professional performance event directed […]
Continue Reading‘Deconstruction, Feminism, Film’ – New Book by Sarah Dillon
Dr Sarah Dillon’s new book, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film is published this month with Edinburgh University Press. The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film explores the interconnections between these three fields through detailed filmic and philosophical close […]
Continue Reading‘Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond’, 2–4 July 2018, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond 2–4 July 2018 Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Law and Literature has come of age, evolving from the vexations of the early 1990s into a thriving field across periods, with the English Renaissance still a major locus. With the authority and intellectual security this progress gives […]
Continue ReadingDr David Winters co-edits ‘Conversations with Gordon Lish’, published June 2018
David Winters has co-edited the collected interviews of writer, editor and teacher Gordon Lish. The book, titled Conversations with Gordon Lish, is published by Mississippi University Press: http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2114
Continue ReadingOriginal artwork from ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes on display in the Faculty of English, May 2018
Ted Hughes and George Adamson Ted Hughes was one of the great writers for children, and his first three children’s books, Meet My Folks!, The Iron Man and How the Whale Became all benefited from a collaboration with the illustrator George Worsley Adamson (1913-2005). Thanks to the generosity of his son John, Pembroke’s collection includes […]
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