Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) will give a lecture for Cambridge Queer History Month on 4th February 2019 called, ‘”Nothing Ever Just Disappears”: Innovative Queer Writing in America in the 1980s’. It’s free and takes place in the Howard Theatre, Downing College at 6pm. More information available here: https://www.facebook.com/events/135620190712146/ The event is organised […]
Continue Reading‘A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets’, by David Grundy – forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic on 7 February 2019
A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic on 7th February 2019. “A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American avant-garde. Bringing together new archival research and detailed close readings […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright: Keynote Speaker at the Eleventh International Conference on Middle English, University of Florence, February 2019
Dr Laura Wright is a Keynote Speaker at the Eleventh International Conference on Middle English, which takes place at the University of Florence, 5-8 February 2019. The title of Dr Wright’s lecture is ‘On the Multilingual Background to Standard English’. https://www.icome11.unifi.it/index.php
Continue Reading‘Reading Dylan Thomas’, edited by Edward Allen, published by Edinburgh University Press, December 2018
Reading Dylan Thomas has been published by Edinburgh University Press. It features essays by several academics in Cambridge – Deborah Bowman, Leo Mellor, and Rod Mengham – as well as an introduction by its editor, Edward Allen. The cover art is the work of India Lewis, who read English at Jesus College. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading-dylan-thomas.html
Continue ReadingAbi L. Glen, Doctoral Candidate in the Faculty of English, appointed as 2019 AHRC Creative Economy Engagement Fellow, Fitzwilliam Museum
The purpose of the project is to design, create and test prototypes for a new, Fitzwilliam-centric subscription service using the technology created by Museum In a Box. MIaB is an edtech company pioneering the use of ‘Brain Boxes’: a small plywood box, about the size of a Roberts radio, containing speakers, a Raspberry Pi, and […]
Continue ReadingAhead of giving the Clark Lectures 2019, Professor Andrew Cole (Princeton) talks to Trinity Fellows, Dr Ross Wilson and Dr Phil Knox
Professor Andrew Cole, Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton, will give the Clark Lectures 2019 at Trinity. Here he is in conversation with Trinity Fellows, Dr Ross Wilson and Dr Phil Knox: https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/unmodernism-the-clark-lectures-2019/ UNMODERNISM – THE CLARK LECTURES 2019 BY PROFESSOR ANDREW COLE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 1.Hegel in the Cathedral (28 January, lecture) […]
Continue ReadingCall for Papers: ‘War and Peace in the Age of Sterne’, Utrecht, 31 October-2 November 2019
The International Laurence Sterne Foundation has now opened its Call for Papers for its third conference, on the topic of ‘War and Peace in the Age of Sterne’, to be held in Utrecht 31st October-2nd November 2019. Further details can be found on the conference website: https://sternelegacies.com/utrecht-2019/
Continue Reading‘W. S. Graham 1918-2018: A Centenary Symposium’, Faculty of English, GR06/07, Friday 11 January 2019
Ever wondered whether W. S. Graham liked to draw? Or what he made of flying? Or what kinds of spaces – real and imagined – are opened up by his tricky poetry? Come along on Friday to hear a group of people asking and answering these questions – and some others – as we celebrate […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita publishes article about feminist forums and magazines (Fall 2018)
Dr Sophie Seita has published ‘The Politics of the Forum in Feminist Avant-Garde Magazines After 1980‘ in the Journal of Modern Literature, 42.1 (Fall 2018), pp. 163-182. Abstract Dissatisfied with the exclusion of women from preceding avant-gardes, the overlapping communities that formed around the feminist avant-garde magazines Chain, Raddle Moon, HOW(ever), and HOW2 attempted to forge […]
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