Faculty of English

JUDITH E. WILSON STUDIO, ENGLISH FACULTY, 9 WEST ROAD, 1ST DECEMBER, 19.30 – 21.00 P.M. DRIFT READING SERIES #3: CASSELS / PERSAD / SCHNEIDER / BEAGHTON ‘all life is just a game for metal, my chemist says, from wolfish gloopy kills way down to you, dear bacterial reader’ READINGS BY: IMOGEN CASSELS JOE PERSAD KATE […]

The English Faculty Library’s Benson Gallery and the Faculty’s exhibition space on the first floor landing are host to an exhibition curated by Dr Drew Milne entitled ‘Welcome to the Biotariat’. The display looks at lichen symbiosis & representation and contains photographs, poems, scientific data and specimens. Lichen & lichenology has been a major influence […]

Dr James Riley responds to the news of Charles Manson’s Death for ‘The Conversation’: http://theconversation.com/charles-manson-death-of-americas-1960s-bogeyman-70887 Dr Riley was approached to write this article on the basis of his research interest in the culture of the 1960s.

Dr Jenny Bavidge gave a keynote lecture at  ‘Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the Ecogothic’.   The title of Dr Bavidge’s lecture was ‘The Scared, The Sacred, and the Shared: The Ethics of the Ecogothic’.  The conference was held at Trinity College, Dublin, 17-18 November 2017. Website: https://gothicnature.wordpress.com Twitter:  https://twitter.com/gothicnaturetcd

On Monday 20 November, Dr Ross Wilson talks about Lord Byron on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Drivetime. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052pnp8 At 6pm that evening, Dr Wilson is in conversation with Byron scholar and Master of Balliol College, Oxford, Professor Sir Drummond Bone at Trinity College.  They will discuss the works of Byron and other writers from the Romantic […]

On 20 November, John Kerrigan will give a public lecture ‘On Hamlet‘ in the Faculdade de Letras at the Universidade de Lisboa.  On 22 November, he will give a second public lecture entitled ‘Otters and Others: Contemporary Poetry’ at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

As Waves of One Sea: Transatlantic Encounters in African American Culture (part of Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities 2017) Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, 20-21 November 2017 From deep in the vaults of the University of Sussex, voices whisper stories – speaking of rivers and the Black Atlantic, singing […]

Professor Christopher Page publishes the second volume of his three-book series on the social and musical history of the guitar in England 1540-1837: www.cambridge.org/9781108419789  The first volume, on the Tudor period, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.

The Complete Poems of Shakespeare, edited by Dr Raphael Lyne and Professor Cathy Shrank, is published  by Routledge on 8 November 2017: https://www.routledge.com/The-Complete-Poems-of-Shakespeare/Shrank-Lyne/p/book/9780582784109

Dr Michael D. Hurley’s new book, “Faith in Poetry”, is published by Bloomsbury in November. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/faith-in-poetry-9781474234078/ In this ambitious book, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers – William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why […]