A display of the work of J.H. Prynne is available to view on the first floor of the Faculty, with additional materials in the Faculty Library. Reading J.H. Prynne celebrates the poet’s role from the beginnings of the British Poetry Revival, as well as his influential part in the pedagogy of this university and the […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Kilbride Wins 2016 Raymond Williams Postgraduate Essay Competition
Dr Laura Kilbride wins the 2016 Raymond Williams (RWS) Postgraduate Essay Competition: the Simon Dentith Memorial Prize for her essay ‘The New Catholic Left: Language, Liturgy and Literature in Slant Magazine, 1964-1970’.
Continue ReadingDr James Riley Invited to Speak at the British Museum, 16 October 2016
James Riley speaks at the British Museum on Sunday 16 October as part of their special Otherworldly event. Along with Iain Sinclair, Gary Lachman and others, James uses objects in the Museum’s collection to “explore themes of cultural rituals, earth mysteries, psychogeography and folklore”. http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=3173&title=Otherworldly: a special event for Halloween&eventType=Special event
Continue ReadingHeadlands @ the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Saturday 22 October 2016, 7:00-8:00pm
Headlands @ the Cambridge Festival of Ideas Saturday 22 October: 7:00pm – 8:00pm Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge. Following on from their exhibition in the Faculty of English earlier this year, Yvonne Salmon and James Riley present Headlands as a live event as part of the 2016 Cambridge […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate Presents Study Day on Virginia Woolf, September 2016
Dr Trudi Tate, Clare Hall, Director of Literature Cambridge, presents a study day on Virginia Woolf: Reading to The Lighthouse. With lectures by Professor Dame Gillian Beer, Professor Frances Spalding, and Dr Trudi Tate. Twenty-four people are booked for a day’s immersion in Woolf’s much-loved novel of art, yearning, and loss. Stapleford Granary, Saturday 17 […]
Continue ReadingMichael J Sullivan publishes in ‘Essays in Criticism’
Michael J Sullivan, PhD candidate and former Harvard Visiting Fellow, publishes in Essays in Criticism: http://eic.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/4/431.full.pdf+html The article, entitled ‘Tennyson and The Golden Treasury’, examines Tennyson’s involvement in the most significant anthology of the nineteenth century.
Continue ReadingDr Joe Moshenska and Dr Edward Wilson-Lee in Conversation, 29 October 2016
Join a conversation with authors Joe Moshenska and Edward Wilson-Lee, whose recently published books – Moshenska’s A Stain in the Blood and Wilson-Lee’s Shakespeare in Swahililand – are centrally concerned with the relationship between the voyages we make and the reading that accompanies us. Saturday 29 October: 2:30-4pm Sidney Sussex College, Sidney Street, CB2 3HU. […]
Continue ReadingDr Joe Moshenska Reviews National Gallery Exibition on Caravaggio’s Influence, October 2016
On 13 October 2016, New Generation Thinker Dr Joe Moshenska appears on Radio 3 Free Thinking to review ‘Beyond Caravaggio’, the new exhibition on Caravaggio’s influence. ‘Beyond Caravaggio’ runs at The National Gallery, 12 October 2016 To 15 January 2017. The New Generation Thinkers scheme is run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and […]
Continue ReadingDr Robert Macfarlane curates ‘Conservation and Imagination’, September 2016 to January 2017
Dr Robert Macfarlane curates ‘Conservation and Imagination’, an exhibition in the David Attenborough Building, the university’s new centre for biodiversity conservation, running from September 22nd 2016 until the end of January, open to visitors.
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace & Dr Emily Kneebone Organise Symposium to Accompany Cambridge Greek Play, October 2016
Dr Jennifer Wallace (English) and Dr Emily Kneebone (Classics) are organising a day-long symposium to accompany the production of the Cambridge Greek Play double bill of Antigone and Lysistrata at the Arts Theatre. The symposium brings together Classicists, philosophers, literary and cultural critics, theatre directors and actors to discuss tragedy, comedy, politics and revolution and […]
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