The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) calls for submissions for the 13th year with television presenter, author and actress Mel Giedroyc chairing the judging panel for the 2018 award. Mel, who has co-hosted a myriad of television shows including The Great British Bake-Off, has written two books From Here to Maternity (2005) […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita edits a facsimile reprint of the significant Dada magazine ‘The Blind Man’
The Blind Man and rongwrong were seminal New York Dada magazines edited and published by Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and Beatrice Wood in 1917. This facsimile edition, introduced by Sophie Seita and published by Ugly Duckling Presse, celebrates the 100th anniversary of their publication. The box set also includes a two-colour offset reproduction of Beatrice Wood’s poster for […]
Continue ReadingDr Joseph Hone’s new book, ‘Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne’, published by Oxford University Press, December 2017
Dr Joseph Hone’s new book, Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne, is published by Oxford University Press on 14 December 2017: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/literature-and-party-politics-at-the-accession-of-queen-anne-9780198814078 Dr Joseph Hone is a Junior Research Fellow in English at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Joseph.Hone/
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita’s article ‘Thinking the Unprintable in Post-Digital Publishing’ appears in ‘Chicago Review’, November 2017
Dr Sophie Seita’s article ‘Thinking the Unprintable in Post-Digital Publishing’ just appeared in Chicago Review, 60.4 (Fall 2017), 175-194. In this article, Dr Sophie Seita argues that what she calls the “imagined printedness” in the digital publishing projects of Troll Thread and Gauss PDF (with side-glances at the magazine Triple Canopy and Ugly Duckling Presse) allows […]
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan Lectures on ‘King Lear’, University of Copenhagen, 4 December 2017
John Kerrigan is lecturing on King Lear at the University of Copenhagen on Monday 4 December. His talk is drawn from his in-press book on Shakespeare’s Originality which will be published by Oxford University Press in January.
Continue ReadingDRIFT Reading Series 3: Cassels / Persad / Schneider / Beaghton, Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, 1 December 2017, 7.30-9pm
JUDITH E. WILSON STUDIO, ENGLISH FACULTY, 9 WEST ROAD, 1ST DECEMBER, 19.30 – 21.00 P.M. DRIFT READING SERIES #3: CASSELS / PERSAD / SCHNEIDER / BEAGHTON ‘all life is just a game for metal, my chemist says, from wolfish gloopy kills way down to you, dear bacterial reader’ READINGS BY: IMOGEN CASSELS JOE PERSAD KATE […]
Continue ReadingExhibition: Welcome to the Biotariat
The English Faculty Library’s Benson Gallery and the Faculty’s exhibition space on the first floor landing are host to an exhibition curated by Dr Drew Milne entitled ‘Welcome to the Biotariat’. The display looks at lichen symbiosis & representation and contains photographs, poems, scientific data and specimens. Lichen & lichenology has been a major influence […]
Continue ReadingDr James Riley responds to death of Charles Manson for ‘The Conversation’, November 2017
Dr James Riley responds to the news of Charles Manson’s Death for ‘The Conversation’: http://theconversation.com/charles-manson-death-of-americas-1960s-bogeyman-70887 Dr Riley was approached to write this article on the basis of his research interest in the culture of the 1960s.
Continue ReadingDr Jenny Bavidge gives a Keynote Lecture at ‘Gothic Nature’, Trinity College, Dublin, November 2017
Dr Jenny Bavidge gave a keynote lecture at ‘Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the Ecogothic’. The title of Dr Bavidge’s lecture was ‘The Scared, The Sacred, and the Shared: The Ethics of the Ecogothic’. The conference was held at Trinity College, Dublin, 17-18 November 2017. Website: https://gothicnature.wordpress.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/gothicnaturetcd
Continue ReadingDr Ross Wilson talks about Lord Byron, 20 November 2017
On Monday 20 November, Dr Ross Wilson talks about Lord Byron on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Drivetime. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052pnp8 At 6pm that evening, Dr Wilson is in conversation with Byron scholar and Master of Balliol College, Oxford, Professor Sir Drummond Bone at Trinity College. They will discuss the works of Byron and other writers from the Romantic […]
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