Literature Study Days at Stapleford Granary. Lectures by Cambridge academics, open to the public. Booking essential. Sunday 18 February 2018, 2-6.30pm, Stapleford Granary, CB22 5BP, Literature Cambridge presents Reading Tennyson. £50/£45 students. Lectures, readings and discussion with Ewan Jones and Oliver Goldstein. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/tennyson/ Saturday 17 March 2018. 2-5.30pm, Stapleford Granary, CB22 5BP, Literature Cambridge presents […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael D. Hurley and Dr Marcus Waithe: co-editors of ‘Thinking through Style’, published January 2018
‘Thinking through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century’, edited by Dr Michael D. Hurley and Dr Marcus Waithe, is published by Oxford University Press on 11 January 2018 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thinking-through-style-9780198737827?cc=gb&lang=en&
Continue ReadingDr Michael D. Hurley appointed Crausaz Wordsworth Fellow, CRASSH, 2018-2019
Dr Michael D. Hurley has been appointed as the Crausaz Wordsworth Fellow at CRASSH for 2018-2019: he takes up his Fellowship in Lent Term 2019. http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/crausaz-wordsworth-interdisciplinary-fellowship-in-philosophy
Continue ReadingCall For Papers – Paper-stuff: Materiality, Technology and Invention, University of Cambridge, Faculty of English, 10-11 September 2018
Under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts and the Writing Britain Conference Series The introduction of paper to the West was a major technological innovation which transformed the ways in which texts of all kinds were transmitted. Having proved itself over many centuries as the intellectual fabric of Asian and Middle Eastern societies, […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita invited to present her work at the Royal Academy of Arts, December 2017
Dr Sophie Seita contributes to the Royal Academy’s Lates programme ‘Rrose Sélavy’s Dada Extravaganza’ with ‘Reading Fountain: A Lecture Performance in Two Parts’ on December 9. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/rrose-selavys-dada-extravaganza
Continue ReadingBBC National Short Story Award – Call for submissions
The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) calls for submissions for the 13th year with television presenter, author and actress Mel Giedroyc chairing the judging panel for the 2018 award. Mel, who has co-hosted a myriad of television shows including The Great British Bake-Off, has written two books From Here to Maternity (2005) […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita edits a facsimile reprint of the significant Dada magazine ‘The Blind Man’
The Blind Man and rongwrong were seminal New York Dada magazines edited and published by Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and Beatrice Wood in 1917. This facsimile edition, introduced by Sophie Seita and published by Ugly Duckling Presse, celebrates the 100th anniversary of their publication. The box set also includes a two-colour offset reproduction of Beatrice Wood’s poster for […]
Continue ReadingDr Joseph Hone’s new book, ‘Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne’, published by Oxford University Press, December 2017
Dr Joseph Hone’s new book, Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne, is published by Oxford University Press on 14 December 2017: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/literature-and-party-politics-at-the-accession-of-queen-anne-9780198814078 Dr Joseph Hone is a Junior Research Fellow in English at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Joseph.Hone/
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita’s article ‘Thinking the Unprintable in Post-Digital Publishing’ appears in ‘Chicago Review’, November 2017
Dr Sophie Seita’s article ‘Thinking the Unprintable in Post-Digital Publishing’ just appeared in Chicago Review, 60.4 (Fall 2017), 175-194. In this article, Dr Sophie Seita argues that what she calls the “imagined printedness” in the digital publishing projects of Troll Thread and Gauss PDF (with side-glances at the magazine Triple Canopy and Ugly Duckling Presse) allows […]
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan Lectures on ‘King Lear’, University of Copenhagen, 4 December 2017
John Kerrigan is lecturing on King Lear at the University of Copenhagen on Monday 4 December. His talk is drawn from his in-press book on Shakespeare’s Originality which will be published by Oxford University Press in January.
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