Alison Hennegan (English) and Jeremy Thurlow (Music) gave lectures on E. M. Forster and Italy at a Study Day organised by Trudi Tate, 17 March. Students came from Cambridge, London and Inverness. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/study-days/
Continue ReadingDr Aoife Byrne lectures on Elizabeth Bowen’s writings of the Second World War, March 2018
On 6 March, Aoife Byrne lectured on Elizabeth Bowen’s writings of the Second World War in a lecture series for town and gown presented by Literature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/virginia-woolf-talks/
Continue ReadingProfessor Dame Gillian Beer receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ghent, March 2018
On 23 March, Professor Dame Gillian Beer receives an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ghent.
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright continues to present ‘Word of Mouth’ on BBC Radio 4, January-February 2018
Dr Laura Wright continues to co-host BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. Monday 22 January – Hello! Is it me you’re looking for? – The art of greetings Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright discuss the origins and psychology […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Nicolette Zeeman lectures on ‘The Hypocritical Figure’ at Princeton and John Hopkins, March 2018
Nicolette Zeeman is lecturing on ‘The Hypocritical Figure’ from her forthcoming book on medieval allegory and Piers Plowman at Princeton and Johns Hopkins on 13th and 15th March.
Continue Reading‘Attention and Distraction’: Cambridge University’s annual student-organised graduate conference on literature before 1750, Faculty of English, 20 April 2018
‘Attention and Distraction’: Cambridge University’s annual student-organised graduate conference on literature before 1750 Friday, 20 April (13:00-19:00), at CU Faculty of English (GR 06/07). For pre-modern readers, what did it mean to ‘attend’ (or fail to attend) to a text? What is the role of boredom and distraction in the reading process? How do we […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Kennedy publishes ‘T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination’, March 2018
Dr Sarah Kennedy’s book, T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination, is published by Cambridge University Press in March 2018. How is a poem made? From what constellation of inner and outer worlds does it issue forth? In her book T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Sarah Kennedy asks these questions in relation to […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita hosts Screening and Q&A with Uisenma Borchu as Part of UCU Teach Out, 15 March 2018
Film Screening & Q&A with Uisenma Borchu Schau Mich Nicht So An / Don’t Look at Me That Way, by Uisenma Borchu Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens’ College, 15 March 2018, 2.30-4.30pm Part of UCU Teach-Out Programme Hosted by Sophie Seita Trailer: https://vimeo.com/166792779
Continue ReadingMagdalene Festival of Change Event: Translation/Transformation – a Symposium and Workshop, Saturday 10 March 2018
On Saturday 10 March, a symposium on Translation will be hosted at Magdalene College, under the joint auspices of the English and Modern Languages departments, as part of the College’s Festival of Change. Speakers will be Professor of Italian, Robin Kirkpatrick, German translator Dr Sophie Seita, and the award-winning Hungarian poet, George Szirtes, in a […]
Continue ReadingDr Mary Newbould discusses Laurence Sterne’s ‘A Sentimental Journey’ on BBC Radio 3, 1 March 2018
Dr Mary Newbould discusses the influence of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, on ‘Free Thinking’, BBC Radio 3, 10pm, Thursday 1 March. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09t2g8g
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