Lewis Roberts, supervisor and PhD candidate in the department, gives the guest lecture at Monasterevin Hopkins Festival on Saturday 29th July. The festival celebrates Gerard Manley Hopkins and his time spent in Dublin and Monasterevin, and is timed to coincide with his birthday. Lewis, who is taking up the Procter Fellowship at Princeton University from […]
Continue ReadingEva Dema awarded the Paroissien Prize by the Dickens Society
Eva Dema has been awarded the David Paroissien Prize by the Dickens Society for her article ”’Wind, Wind, Wind, Always Winding Am I’: Dickens’s Metafictional Clockwork”. The prize is awarded each year to the best peer-reviewed essay on Dickens published in a journal or edited collection. You can find the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgab094.
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson had lunch with the Queen as part of a reception for the First Story charity, July 2023
Queen Camilla is Patron of First Story, a charity Dr Lander Johnson partners with to bring 400 secondary school students to Cambridge for an annual festival of writing. You can read more about this year’s festival here: https://firststory.org.uk/festival/ The event took place at Clarence House, to celebrate the 15th birthday of First Story. Guests had lunch and […]
Continue ReadingOut now: Into That World Inverted, a new six-part podcast exploring LGBTQ places past and present
Taking its title from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, the podcast follows hosts Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) and renowned ‘dandy’ drag king Holly James Johnston, as they tour the south-east coast of England from Margate to Hastings. Along the way, they visit the homes of iconic figures such as Derek Jarman, Vita Sackville-West, and Henry […]
Continue ReadingNicolette Zeeman is awarded The Anne Middleton Book Prize 2019-20 by the International Piers Plowman Society
Nicolette Zeeman has been awarded the 2019-20 Anne Middleton Book Prize of the International Piers Plowman Society, for her Arts of Disruption. Allegory and Piers Plowman (Oxford University Press, 2020). See: https://piersplowman.org/2019-2020-anne-middleton-book-prize/
Continue ReadingFrançois·e Charmaille appears on The Multicultural Middle Ages podcast
The Multicultural Middle Ages podcast is launching a new series, Speculum Spotlight, in collaboration with Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. Each episode of the series showcases the work of a writer from the latest issue of the journal. The inaugural episode is an interview with François·e Charmaille (PhD candidate at Christ’s college) about their […]
Continue ReadingTheology and Literature study evening | Faculty of Divinity Tuesday 27th June
Theology and Literature study evening | Faculty of Divinity theology_literature_2023.png Holy Women & Heretics The Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity are holding a joint online study evening on Tuesday 27th June 2023. www.divinity.cam.ac.uk
Continue ReadingBooking is now open for Cambridge Open Days/Undergraduate Study
Cambridge Open Days | Undergraduate Study Cambridge Open Days, July and September 2023 Our next undergraduate Open Days will take place on Thursday 6 July and Friday 7 July. www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk
Continue ReadingDr Siddharth Soni wins the Ideas Prize for ‘paradigm-shifting’ book
Dr Siddharth Soni wins the £25,000 Ideas Prize for ‘paradigm-shifting’ book, to be published by Profile The Ideas Prize this year has been awarded to Dr Siddharth Soni for his book proposal Monstrous Archives. The Ideas Prize, one of UK’s largest and most prestigious prizes for a first book proposal, constitutes £25,000 and a contract […]
Continue ReadingClaudia Tobin speaks at Parham House
Garden Sanctuaries Ahead of her exhibition on garden sanctuaries to be held at the Garden Museum in 2024, Claudia Tobin has been invited to speak at the 2023 Garden Museum Literary Festival held at Parham House, West Sussex. The festival is Britain’s only travelling Literary Festival, with previous hosts including Chatsworth House (2022), Helmingham Hall (2021), […]
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