Professor David Trotter will give the 2017 Katherine Mansfield Society Annual Birthday Lecture. The title of his lecture is: ‘The Yellow Mackintosh: Sights, Sounds, and Smells in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield’. The lecture will take place at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, on Saturday 14 October, at 2pm. http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/birthday-lecture-2017/
Continue ReadingDr Michael D. Hurley gives a paper on ‘Poetic Assent’ at Oxford, 12 October 2017
Dr Michael D. Hurley will be giving a paper on ‘Poetic Assent’ at Oxford on Thursday 12 October, addressing the MPhil seminar series on ‘Poetry as Religious Practice’. The venue is the Magrath Room, Queen’s College. https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/site/:humdiv:engfac:what#
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan is the Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, 9-12 October 2017
Professor John Kerrigan will be the Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English, Princeton University, from 9-12 October 2017. During an intensive three-to-five-day period, The Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow lectures and participates in classes, colloquia and informal discussions. https://humanities.princeton.edu/people/role/short-term-visiting-fellows/
Continue ReadingDr Leo Mellor gives a paper at the London Modernism Seminar, 7 October 2017
Dr Leo Mellor will be giving a paper entitled ”Mountain heather and blunt trauma: demob aftermath, violent nature and the post-war sublime’ at the London Modernism Seminar on 7 October. This seminar is organised by The Institute of English Studies (University of London). https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/12599
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon to join Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Dr Sarah Dillon is to join Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence as a co-Project Lead and Senior Research Fellow on the AI Narratives project which will run for three years from 2017-2020. The project, based at the centre and in conjunction with the Royal Society, aims to explore how AI is currently […]
Continue ReadingFaculty of English part of BBC-Cambridge Short Story Awards Partnership
The Faculty of English is delighted to announce that it is part of a new collaboration between the BBC and the University of Cambridge to support the BBC National Short Story Award, the BBC Young Writers’ Award and the BBC Student Critics’ Award, in a three-year collaboration starting in 2018. The University of Cambridge will […]
Continue ReadingTHE GHOSTS OF KEROUAC: An Evening With Gerald Nicosia
Wednesday 27th September, 4pm Faculty of English; 8pm Cambridge Unitarian Hall. Two events, two venues across one evening. Join Gerald Nicosia author, poet, biographer and acclaimed Beat scholar for a specially curated evening consisting of a lecture presentation and a live poetry reading. Gerald Nicosia is the author of Memory Babe, the classic biography of […]
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