Faculty of English

This is to announce two seminars taking place this term: Drew Milne (Cambridge), ‘Gleaning Under the Sign of the Anthropocene’ Wednesday, 16th November *1.15pm* G-R06/07 Alexander Freer (Cambridge), ‘Another Freudian Reading’ Wednesday, 30th November *5pm* G-R0607 These are the inaugural sessions of the Faculty’s newly constituted Theory, Criticism, and Culture Seminar. The Theory, Criticism, and […]

Registration Delegates are now invited to register for Ear Pieces. There are 2 packages on offer, both for early-career and senior researchers, and for PhD candidates. ‘Full’ registration includes, in both cases, buffet lunches on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th, tea and coffee throughout the conference, and a three-course dinner in the historic setting of […]

Dr Mina Gorji gives a public lecture at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival on Saturday 5 November.  The title of her talk is ‘John Clare’s Soundscapes’. http://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/

Dr Robert Macfarlane’s work on land use, language and environmental economics features in a Slate.com article examining the issues surrounding the proposed 1,200-mile North Dakota Access Pipeline: ‘How much is this land worth?’ http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/11/standing_rock_shows_why_environmentalists_should_move_beyond_cost_benefit.html

Read Dr Raphael Lyne’s 3-year anniversary review of his blog ‘What literature knows about your brain’: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/cogblog/

Jitka Štollová, a PhD student at Trinity College, publishes an essay entitled ‘Plotting Paratexts in Shirley’s The Politician‘ in a recent volume James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2016). As part of the AHRC Major Research Grant, this collection discusses one of the last great Stuart playwrights and authors of masques, […]

The next meeting of the American Research Seminar will take place on Thursday 3 November at 5pm in room SR24. Dr Will Norman (University of Kent) will be giving a paper entitled ‘Hardboiled Style: Genre, Coping, Complicity’. He will be focusing on Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon, and Raymond Chandler’s The Big […]

MATTER AT THE CROSSROADS: LITERATURE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge 25 November 2016 Speakers include Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck), Katherine Hunt (University of Oxford), Claire Preston (QMUL), Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge), Jonathan Sawday (SLU), and Helen Smith (University of York).  Please note the deadline for registration is Tuesday […]

Samuel Beckett A symposium celebrating the publication of the fourth volume of the Letters King’s College, Cambridge Friday November 25th, 14.00 – 18.00 Papers from: Steve Connor, Drew Milne, Emily Fitzell, Martin Crowley In conversation with: Chris Prendergast and John Haynes Readings from the Letters: Dan Gunn and George Craig To register for this free […]