Claudia Tobin discusses Virginia Woolf, colour and insects on Free Thinking BBC Radio 3. You can listen on catch up here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09rm9t4
Continue ReadingClaudia Tobin contributes to the exhibition ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings’, Tate St Ives, 10 February – 29 April 2018
Claudia Tobin has contributed to the exhibition ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings’, which has recently opened at Tate St Ives. The exhibition is led by Woolf’s writing, which will act as a prism through which to explore feminist perspectives on landscape, domesticity and identity in modern and contemporary art – with works […]
Continue ReadingHappy Valentine’s Day, star-crossed lovers…
As she prepares to begin work on a new introduction for the New Cambridge Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries is writing about Romeo and Juliet every day in 2018, line by line. So far she’s got to Act 1 Scene 3 – Romeo and Juliet haven’t actually met yet… You can read the […]
Continue ReadingCreatures of Light: Ted Hughes at Pembroke — an exhibition in the Faculty Library’s Benson Gallery
Ted Hughes came to Cambridge in 1951, to read English at Pembroke. In 1953 he dreamed a burned fox entered his room one night as he struggled with an essay. It told him: ‘Stop this — you are destroying us.’ In February 1956 he met Sylvia Plath at a party to launch St Botolph’s Review. […]
Continue ReadingPolyphonic Poetry: Katy Bohinc, Andrea Brady, Janice A. Lowe – Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Cambridge University, 7.30pm, 21 February 2018
Come hear these stellar poets perform at the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio at Cambridge University, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, UK! KATY BOHINC is a poet and data scientist; an avant-garde publisher and a professional marketer; an activist, an astrologer and an innovator. She has three books of poetry: TRINITY STAR TRINITY […]
Continue Reading‘Alas, Poor Yorick!’: A Sterne 250-Year Anniversary Conference, March 2018
In February 1768 Laurence Sterne – already famous for his provocative ‘Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’ – published his second novel, ‘A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy’. A few weeks later, this clergyman-turned-author died. 2018 marks the 250-year anniversary of these momentous events, and provides an occasion to celebrate Sterne’s life, work, […]
Continue ReadingSean Bonney: Reading and Seminar, UK Launch of ‘Ghosts’, 24 February 2018, Faculty of English (Materials Seminar & Reading Series)
MATERIALS SEMINAR & READING SERIES Email David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk) for details Saturday, February 24th Sean Bonney Reading and Seminar UK launch of GHOSTS Sean Bonney will give a paper on Amiri Baraka at 16:00 in GR06/07, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, and a reading at 20:00 in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio. This will […]
Continue Reading2017-18 issue of ‘9 West Road’ now available
The 2017-18 issue of the English Faculty Magazine, 9 West Road, is now available on the Faculty website: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter/9westroad17.pdf
Continue ReadingDr Alison Wood convenes British Academy Funded Network on Critical University Studies, January 2018
How can Universities better serve the public good? Dr Alison Wood (English/CRASSH) has won a British Academy Rising Stars Engagement Award (£14,500) to convene a research network on Critical University Studies (CUS). 20 early career researchers from 13 institutions and 10 disciplines are gathering to consider how Critical University Studies – and so also Universities […]
Continue ReadingThe Alchemical Landscape Research Seminar @ CRASSH, University of Cambridge, Lent 2018
The Alchemical Landscape Research Seminar continues at CRASSH. This term’s programme includes talks by artists, writers, academics and film-makers: Sarah Turner (University of Kent) Polyphonic Cinema 5pm 30 January 2018, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Karl Bell (Portsmouth) Supernatural Cities: Urban Mindscapes and Academic Liminality 13 February 2018, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building […]
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