Faculty of English

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

Steven Connor’s book Dream Machines, a philosophical history of imaginary machines and the ways in which machines come to be imagined, has just appeared from Open Humanities Press, in the Technographies series that is edited by the Faculty’s Literature-Technology-Media research group. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/dream-machines/  

Subha Mukherji, on behalf of the Crossroads of Knowledge project, has won a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant to supplement the project’s qualitative research with quantitative computational analysis. This has been used to set up a new collaboration with the Humanities Digital Workshop at the George Washington University, St Louis, to work on a pilot study, […]

Dr Sarah Kennedy (Research Fellow in English, Downing College) gives plenary lecture, “‘Blood for the Ghosts’: T.S. Eliot in the Underworld”, at this year’s T.S. Eliot International Summer School, which takes place at the Institute of English Studies, University of London from 8-16 July 2017. The lecture is at 9.30am on Wednesday 12 July at the Senate House, University of London. […]

The 2017 Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence conference will be held 19-20 July 2017 at the Huntington Library in California. The first joint venture of the Katherine Mansfield Society and the International Elizabeth von Arnim Society (current president, Dr Isobel Maddison), the conference seeks to explore the literary connections, friendships and influences that […]

Trudi Tate has organised two intensive summer courses in July 2017. Woolf’s Rooms runs from 17-21 July, and Reading Bloomsbury runs from 24-28 July. The courses offer a week’s immersion in their subject, with lectures, supervisions, excursions and communal meals. Participants come from all over the world and share a student experience in Homerton College. […]

Cambridge researchers and alumni Michael J. Sullivan, Lucy Barnes, James Harriman-Smith and Bysshe Inigo Coffey are among the co-authors of the most recent Year’s Work in English Studies, published by Oxford University Press.  The Year’s Work in English Studies is published annually, and seeks to review all scholarly work published in the previous year. The Eighteenth Century:  […]