Faculty of English

Dr Sophie Seita (JRF, Queens’) writes about the late British poet Tom Raworth’s editing activities and the avant-garde networks with which he was involved in an article published in Critical Quarterly (Volume 59, Issue 2). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/criq.12334/epdf

Lotte Reinbold (Graduate Student, Faculty of English and Robinson College) has rediscovered a series of etchings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Bell Scott, illustrating the Scots dream poem The Kingis Quair.  Scott undertook the etchings after painting frescoes illustrating the poem in Penkill Castle, Ayrshire, but only printed a very limited number of copies, and […]

Literature Cambridge presents a Study Day, Reading Mrs Dalloway. A full day of lectures and discussion with Woolf scholars Susan Sellers, Trudi Tate and Claire Nicholson. Sat. 16 September, 11 am to 5 pm. £90 / £75 for students and CAMcard holders. Price includes light lunch. More information: http://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/dalloway/ Bookings: http://staplefordgranary.org.uk/whats-on/reading-mrs-dalloway.aspx Enquiries: info@literaturecambridge.co.uk

Dr Leo Mellor was part of a panel – ‘New Old Lefts’ – at this year’s Modernist Studies Association conference in Amsterdam (MSA19) and gave a paper on ‘Tom Wintringham’s Native Guerrillas’. Sean Richardson tweeted about it here: https://twitter.com/Southldntabby/status/895982061290442752

Dr Deborah Bowman and Dr Leo Mellor co-organised a major round-table at this year’s Modernist Studies Association conference in Amsterdam (MSA19). Their round-table was: ‘The Long 1930s: Aeriality, Sensations, Language’. The other participants were: James Purdon (University of St Andrews), Abbie Garrington (University of Durham), Jeremy Noel-Tod (University of East Anglia), and David Trotter (Cambridge). […]

Jasmine Jagger (Wolfson Scholar Graduate Student, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford) and Dr. Matthew Bevis (Associate Professor, Oxford) have curated and designed an online exhibition on the relationship between Edward Lear and the Tennyson family. The exhibition results from an examination of the entire collection of letters (over 200) […]

Professor Christopher Page has been elected to the Academia Europaea. http://www.ae-info.org/ Academia Europaea is a European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy. Its members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research.

On September 15, ‘John Clare and the Art of Bird Watching’, a symposium, will be held in the David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge. The event is a collaboration between the Centre for John Clare Studies (English Faculty) and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). Speakers will include Tim Dee, Mina Gorji (Cambridge), Francesca Mackenney (Bristol), […]

Dr Ross Wilson discussed the poetry and gardens of Alexander Pope with Janina Ramirez in a BBC4 documentary, ‘In Search of Arcadia’, which aired on Wednesday, 9th August, and is available to watch again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090c4f6. ‘In Search of Arcadia’ traced the origins of the English landscape movement to a stretch of the Thames to […]

Dr Kasia Boddy’s review of The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner and at Ringside appears in the August 2017 issue of Prospect magazine, available online in July. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/boxings-glory-days-are-over-but-writers-still-come-back-for-more