Professor Ross Wilson has been appointed to the Editorial Board of ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’, a series of original critical studies devoted to literature in English from the early 1780s to the early 1830s, published by Cambridge University Press. Link to the ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’ webpage: https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-studies-in-romanticism/6485F1785BF8BB2BB360791BDE050CCC
Continue ReadingPop-up Installation!
In conjunction with his talk for the History of Material Texts seminar, Drew Milne has curated a small exhibition of theatre programmes from his own collection, illustrating aspects of the history of theatre programmes. They are displayed in the two vitrines on the first floor of the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road. His talk […]
Continue ReadingDr Beryl Pong is interviewed in the Guardian about her VR film on the psychology of drone warfare
Dr Beryl Pong (UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer) and her team at the Centre for Drones and Culture will be at the Imperial War Museum (IWM North) to show a VR version of their immersive film about the psychology of drone warfare, Beware Blue Skies (from 30 October – 2 November 2025). This is […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Clare Pettitt gives a UNESCO ‘The Literature of Sustainability’ lecture, Friday 24 October
The title of Professor Pettitt‘s lecture is ‘Groundless Empire and Grounded Resistance’ and it takes place on Friday 24 October, at 6pm Indian Standard Time / 1.30pm UK time. It is part of UNESCO’s series of lectures on ‘The Literature of Sustainability: Reading, Writing and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals’. Professor Pettitt’s lecture relates […]
Continue ReadingDr Olivia Krauze’s essay ‘What is a Violent Emotion?’ is published in ‘Victorian Review’
Dr Olivia Krauze’s essay ‘What is a Violent Emotion?’, which won the Hamilton Prize in 2024, was published in issue 50.2 of Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies. The article illuminates an important yet overlooked sub-history of emotion in the nineteenth century: the development of “violent emotion” as a category of intense emotional experience, […]
Continue ReadingCall for Posts for a New Milton Blog on the ‘Darkness Visible’ Online Study Guide
Christ’s College’s new and improved Darkness Visible Milton study site (relaunching December 2026) seeks blog posts of c.1500-2000 words relating to the works, life, times, contemporaries and afterlives of John Milton. The site is primarily a resource for studying Paradise Lost aimed at schools, university applicants, undergraduates, and anyone else interested in getting to know the poem better. The new blog […]
Continue ReadingHumanities Exploration Day 2025 – Bradford, Tuesday 9 December 2025
Humanities Exploration Day 2025 – Bradford Tue 9 Dec 2025 9:30 AM – 10:30 PM New College, Bradford, BD5 0DX The School of Arts and Humanities is hosting a Humanities Exploration Day on the 9th December 2025 at New College, Bradford. The aim is to give students the opportunity to experience university-level teaching in a […]
Continue ReadingNew research published in BMJ Medical Humanities by Dominic O’Key
Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has recently published an article in BMJ Medical Humanities that explores the roles animals play within the technologies for and stories about human reproduction. The essay, co-written with Georgia Walton (Lancaster University), ‘Reproductive Technology’s Animal Unconscious: Multispecies Motherhood and Humanimal Horror’, is available to read online here.
Continue ReadingDr Mina Gorji lectures at ICI Berlin on ‘Poetics of Scale’, 29 September 2025
The talk drew on Dr Gorji’s practice as a poet and literary critic to explore the affordances of lyric to move between multiple scales of perception, experience, and time. Link to further information about the talk: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/mina-gorji/
Continue Reading