Dr Raphael Lyne gives the British Academy Shakespeare Lecture in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe Theatre, on Thursday 10 May 2018. The title of the lecture is ‘Shakespeare and the Wandering Mind’. http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on-2018/the-british-academy-lecture
Continue ReadingCongratulations to the winners of the 2018 Keats-Shelley essay prize: Tara Lee and Clare Jones
Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Keats-Shelley essay prize: Tara Lee, who graduated from the Cambridge 18cR M.Phil. last year; and Clare Jones, a current 18cR M.Phil. student. http://www.keats-shelley.co.uk/2018-keats-shelley-prize-winners
Continue ReadingPolyphonic Poetry : Tim Atkins, Cole Swenson, Ariana Reines – 7.30pm, 16 May 2018, Judith E Wilson Drama Studio
Polyphonic Poetry: Tim Atkins, Cole Swenson, Ariana Reines 16 May 2018, 7:30pm – 10:00pm Venue: Judith E Wilson Drama Studio Curated by Lee Ann Brown, Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow Tim Atkins – Bio: Some Books: 25 Sonnets (The Figures), Horace (O Books), Koto Y Yo, and Petrarch Collected Atkins (Crater Press), 1000 Sonnets (ifpthenq) […]
Continue ReadingDr Ewan Jones co-edits special issue of the journal ‘Essays in Romanticism’, April 2018
Dr Ewan Jones has co-edited a special issue of the journal Essays in Romanticism, with David B. Ruderman and Julia S. Carlson, entitled ‘Romanticizing Historical Poetics’. https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/eir/25/1
Continue ReadingFourth Annual Lecture of the Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, 30 April 2018
The fourth Annual Lecture of the Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership will be given by Professor Adriana Cavarero, Head of the Scientific Board of the Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies at the University of Verona. Professor Cavarero will speak on ‘Political Phonospheres: Plurality and Crowds’. Time: 5.00pm, Monday 30 April 2018. Venue: 8 Mill Lane, […]
Continue ReadingHolly Corfield Carr talks about the poetry of caving on The Echo Chamber, BBC Radio 4, April 2018
PhD candidate Holly Corfield Carr will be discussing site-specific writing practices in caves on Radio 4’s The Echo Chamber. The programme was recorded on site in Goatchurch Cavern in the Mendips with poet Sean Borodale reading from his latest collection Asylum (Cape, 2018). It was broadcast on Sunday 22nd April at 4.30pm and is available […]
Continue ReadingBBC Student Critics’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University Launches – Deadline for Applications 25th May 2018
The BBC Student Critics’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University The Faculty of English is pleased to be part of the BBC Student Critics’ Award, an exciting new initiative from the BBC and partners Cambridge University and First Story, designed to celebrate the written word by encouraging students to read critically, foster skills in […]
Continue ReadingDr Jessica Berenbeim: co-editor of ‘Seals and Status: The Power of Objects’, published 30 April 2018
Dr Jessica Berenbeim’s new book is part of a collaboration with curators at the British Museum. It looks at the constitutive role of seals and sealing in hierarchies of social, institutional, and representational status, and also complements the Museum’s ongoing digitisation programme to widen access to this important collection. The book’s title is: Seals and […]
Continue ReadingDiscourses & Dialogues, Post-1750 Graduate Conference, Saturday 21 April 2018, Faculty of English
Literature is dialogue, as every scholar since Bakhtin knows. Yet, for most our work, students of literature keep trudging on safely within our own periods, genres, styles, materials, ideals, and presuppositions. This is of course, partly pragmatic: no one can be an expert in everything. But such considerations do not absolve us of the duty […]
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