Faculty of English

Dr Laura Wright gives a talk entitled ‘On the Mutability of Medieval Codeswitching’ as part of a seminar series on historical linguistics at the University of Westminster on 28 March 2019. https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events?event_name=Historical%20Linguistics%20Seminar

Louise Joy publishes Literature’s Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Bloomsbury Academic, February 2019). The book brings into dialogue ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, to provide a new account of the complex relations between literary aesthetics and […]

CALL FOR PAPERS: New Postcolonial Concerns: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop 15 June 2019 | Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Keynote Speaker: Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL)  Abstracts due: 14 April 2019 ****** Our planet faces testing times. The challenges ahead increasingly converge: the destruction of our global environment and its uneven impact, the transnational ascension of […]

Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and his World: A Conversation, edited by Dr Subha Mukherji, is published by Medieval Institute Publications/De Gruyter in March 2019. The book launch is at the Shakespeare Association of America, Washington DC.  

Crossroads of Knowledge team present a panel on ‘Knowledge at the Crossroads’ at the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Conference in Toronto, March 17-19, 2019 https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Session/1770 March 19, 2-3.30, Knowledge at the Crossroads. Organiser, Chair and Respondent: Subha Mukherji. Speakers: Joe Jarrett, George Oppitz-Trotman, Regina Schwartz .

Steven Connor’s book The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing is published by Reaktion on 11th March. The book is a psychopathology of intellectual life, which explores the emotional inner life of knowledge—the lusts, fantasies, dreams, and fears that the idea of knowing provokes. It includes discussions of the imperious will […]

Amy Morris joins artists, activists and scholars at the Essex Book Festival on 12 March 2019. She will be participating in a roundtable, during an evening of film, poetry, photography and discussion to launch the book Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues edited by Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petrić. The event will take place in the Lakeside […]

  The lecture is a ticketed event, and tickets may be purchased here: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/events/1/weird-science-and-the-search-for-god