The Cambridge Group for Irish Studies will welcome in-person and remotely the editors of the forthcoming Poems of Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber, 2025), on Tuesday 28th October at 5pm in the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Bernard O’Donoghue, Rosie Lavan and Matthew Hollis will be in conversation with Dr Mark Wormald (Pembroke College) about […]
Continue Reading‘See You Through’ a poem-novel co-written by Professor Alex Houen: Book Launch and Reading at Pembroke College on 23rd October
Prof. Alex Houen has co-written with Prof. Geoff Gilbert (American University of Paris) a poem-novel entitled See You Through (Broken Sleep Books). Structured around a shifting dialogue of voices, the book explores intimacy, war, illness, and facial recognition technology. Alex and Geoff will launch the book at a reading on Thurs 23rd October, 7pm, in the […]
Continue ReadingMolly Williams Lectures on Gardens in Jane Austen’s Works, Royal Oak Foundation, October 22
With the rise of the English landscape movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, gardens became a reflection of taste, fashion, and social ambition. The sweeping designs of Capability Brown and the picturesque visions of Humphry Repton reshaped the countryside, while at the same time, an expanding global plant trade introduced new flowers […]
Continue ReadingLewis Roberts (Trinity) publishes ‘Of Influence’, a collection of essays reimagining ‘The Anxiety of Influence’
Of Influence has been published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice, and is edited by Lewis Roberts, Jacob Ridley (Oxford), and Roddy Howland Jackson (Oxford). Born of an international conference held in Oxford in 2023, 50 years after Harold Bloom published The Anxiety of Influence, these essays ask what Bloom can do […]
Continue ReadingProf Sarah Dillon takes part in Royal Society event marking the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’
Published in October 1950, Alan Turing’s seminal paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ proposed a test to determine whether machines could think and speculated whether they might eventually compete with humans in all intellectual fields. But it is a very strange piece of writing indeed, one that has long intrigued and puzzled readers in equal measure. […]
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan participates in a panel discussion on the literary works and life of Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska, Wednesday 1 October
Writer and researcher Juliette Bretan will participate in an exploration of the literary works and life of Polish-born writer, Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska (1872-1925) and the launch of a new anthology of her writings, Of Bitterness, Doubt and Neglect: Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska, Kettle’s Yard and history’s shadows. The discussion takes place on Wednesday 1 October, 6pm-8pm, at Kettle’s […]
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson speaks at the Cambridge Literary Festival about her new book, ‘Vanishing Landscapes’
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson will speak at the Cambridge Literary Festival about her new book, Vanishing Landscapes, on Saturday 22 November at 2pm. Link to further information and to book tickets: https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/bonnie-lander-johnson-vanishing-landscapes/
Continue ReadingLouis Klee publishes ‘The Constellational Novel’, Oxford University Press, August 2025
The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature by offering a definitive theory of the constellational novel. A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. Beginning with Marcel Proust, the argument focuses on novels published over roughly the last two decades […]
Continue ReadingAnthony Bale’s ‘A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ published in Spanish, September 2025
Anthony Bale’s book, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, will be published in Spanish as Guía de Viajes por la Edad Media: El mundo visto por los viajeros medievales (Madrid: Ático de los Libros) on 22 September 2025. A programme of talks and signings will also take place in that week in Barcelona and […]
Continue ReadingProf Sarah Dillon delivers Keynote Address at Anglistiktag 2025
Professor Sarah Dillon is to deliver the keynote address at Anglistiktag 2025, the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English (literary studies, cultural studies, linguistics, and EFL). This year’s conference theme is ‘Anglophone Studies and the Public: Past, Present and Future Debates and Interventions’ and Prof Dillon will deliver a talk […]
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