Faculty of English

D.W. Winnicott, Julian of Norwich, and the Good-Enough Mother/Mystic By Hannah Lucas American Imago, Volume 81, Number 3, Fall 2024, pp. 401-428 Published by Johns Hopkins University Press: https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2024.a940329 This new article examines the theological resonances in D. W. Winnicott’s theory of motherhood and infant development, bringing to light possible inheritances from the medieval mystical […]

Dr Rebecca Barr speaks on Cold War Steve and William Hogarth at the Birmingham launch of Cold War Steve’s 2025 Annual on the 12th of November. Cold War Steve is a British photomontage artist and satirist whose punk-aesthetic photoshop images of dystopian Britain are disseminated on social media. He has provided cover art for The […]

Kirsten Norrie publishes An American Book of the Dead (Broken Sleep Books) on Nov 30th. Launches and readings: Nov 4th, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford: Kirsten Norrie in discussion with Prof. Simon Critchley, chaired by John Mitchinson: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-seance-of-mysticism-with-dr-kirsten-norrie-and-prof-simon-critchley-tickets-988957647947 Nov 24th, The Horse Hospital, London: Kirsten Norrie reading with Camille Ralphs, Gregory Leadbetter and James Byrne: https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/talkingspirits Nov 28th, […]

An exhibition of work by the artist Chloe Steele as part of a collaborative project investigating the use of printed forms. The project brings together visual art and the histories of the book and of information to explore what we do when print cues us up to make additions to a piece of paper by […]

Lottie Mills is in conversation with Eliza Clark and Julia Armfield at the British Library as part of  its ‘Tales of the Weird: An Autumnal Festival’ on 2 November.  Other guests include Daisy Johnson, Andrew Michael Hurley, and Reece Shearsmith. Lottie is an MPhil student at the Faculty of English and Newnham College.  Her collection […]

Medieval Mysticism, modern materiality, and the graphic novel: Gareth Brookes in conversation with Anthony Bale Monday 11 November, 5pm, Old Kitchens, Girton College Join graphic novelist, comics creator and printmaker Gareth Brookes (University of the Arts, London; author of The Dancing Plague) and Professor Anthony Bale (Cambridge) for a discussion of how Brookes has used […]

The Camera is a graduate-run online magazine that publishes long-form essays, reviews, and interviews exploring contemporary arts and culture happenings in the Cambridge area (think exhibitions, talks, book releases, concerts, etc.) from nuanced and fresh angles. We would love to hear from you (via our pitch submission form or our email, thecamerapublication@gmail.com) if you have an idea […]

The Faculty of English and Department of ASNC, along with Classics, Divinity and MMLL, is hosting a Humanities Exploration Day for high-performing Year 12 students on the 9th December 2024. The aim is to give students the opportunity to experience university-level teaching in a range of humanities subjects, to enrich their current studies and to […]

The St Margaret of Scotland Annual Lecture Series commemorates the life and legacy of Margaret of Scotland. The Lecture Series is an annual event, focusing on intersections between Catholicism and theology or the arts. It is attached to an annual choral Mass at St Salvator’s Chapel, which celebrates links between the University’s School of Divinity […]

Cultivating the Caribbean: Ecologies of Land, Text and Vision This symposium explores ecological and environmental ways of thinking about Caribbean spaces from colonisation to the present day. We will focus on agricultural spaces and other forms of cultivation arising from, and in resistance to, slavery’s many infrastructures and cultural imprints. Case studies include work on […]