Faculty of English

Yvonne Salmon will be giving a TEDx talk on the value of mischief at BAFTA on 24th October. Invited by Fidelity as one of their Agents of Change, the talk will draw on Yvonne’s research into behaviour, culture, law, recording and ways to expose prejudice, as well as her own art, film and performance work. […]

John Kerrigan’s book Shakespeare’s Binding Language has won the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Literature.  The award ceremony takes place at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 26-29 October, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

As part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Ian Burrows will be hosting a workshop on the 20th October which talks members of the public through Shakespeare’s editorial history, introducing them to the centuries of Shakespeareana held at the University Library. Participants will be invited to bring in their own copies of Shakespeare and to consider the ways […]

Dr Sophie Read will give a talk on early modern odours at the Royal College of Physicians’ Museum as part of ‘Sensational scents: a sensory journey to the 17th century’, a ‘museum late’, exploring the world of writer, doctor and 17th century collector, Sir Thomas Browne. https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/events/sensational-scents-sensory-journey-17th-century

Professor David Trotter will give the 2017  Katherine Mansfield Society Annual Birthday Lecture.  The title of his lecture is: ‘The Yellow Mackintosh: Sights, Sounds, and Smells in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield’.  The lecture will take place at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, on Saturday 14 October, at 2pm. http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/birthday-lecture-2017/

Dr Michael D. Hurley will be giving a paper on ‘Poetic Assent’ at Oxford on Thursday 12 October, addressing the MPhil seminar series on ‘Poetry as Religious Practice’.  The venue is the Magrath Room, Queen’s College. https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/site/:humdiv:engfac:what#

Professor John Kerrigan will be the Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English, Princeton University, from 9-12 October 2017. During an intensive three-to-five-day period, The Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow lectures and participates in classes, colloquia and informal discussions. https://humanities.princeton.edu/people/role/short-term-visiting-fellows/

Dr Leo Mellor will be giving a paper entitled ”Mountain heather and blunt trauma: demob aftermath, violent nature and the post-war sublime’ at the London Modernism Seminar on 7 October.  This seminar is organised by The Institute of English Studies (University of London). https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/12599