Faculty of English

Dr Sarah Kennedy (Research Fellow in English, Downing College) gives plenary lecture, “‘Blood for the Ghosts’: T.S. Eliot in the Underworld”, at this year’s T.S. Eliot International Summer School, which takes place at the Institute of English Studies, University of London from 8-16 July 2017. The lecture is at 9.30am on Wednesday 12 July at the Senate House, University of London. […]

The 2017 Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence conference will be held 19-20 July 2017 at the Huntington Library in California. The first joint venture of the Katherine Mansfield Society and the International Elizabeth von Arnim Society (current president, Dr Isobel Maddison), the conference seeks to explore the literary connections, friendships and influences that […]

Trudi Tate has organised two intensive summer courses in July 2017. Woolf’s Rooms runs from 17-21 July, and Reading Bloomsbury runs from 24-28 July. The courses offer a week’s immersion in their subject, with lectures, supervisions, excursions and communal meals. Participants come from all over the world and share a student experience in Homerton College. […]

Cambridge researchers and alumni Michael J. Sullivan, Lucy Barnes, James Harriman-Smith and Bysshe Inigo Coffey are among the co-authors of the most recent Year’s Work in English Studies, published by Oxford University Press.  The Year’s Work in English Studies is published annually, and seeks to review all scholarly work published in the previous year. The Eighteenth Century:  […]

Dr Robert Macfarlane has written the script for Mountain, a film which explores the powerful force that mountains hold over the imagination of so many.  Mountain is directed by Jennifer Peedom.  Voiced by Willem Dafoe, it features a score performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra.   The World Premiere takes place at the Sydney Opera […]

Currently on display in the Cambridge English Faculty exhibition space is a selection of some of the most fascinating, rare, important, and often forgotten avant-garde magazines from the early twentieth century all the way up to the present day. ‘A Century of Avant-Garde Little Magazines’ celebrates the crucial and multifarious contributions magazines have made not […]

Dr Leo Mellor has been invited to give a paper on June 17th at (Un)Civil War?, a two-day colloquium at the University of  St Andrews. (Un)Civil War? will examine conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries in order to question perceptions of civility, violence, commemoration and human rights during war and ‘peace’. https://uncivilwarcolloquium.wordpress.com/ https://uncivilwarcolloquium.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/doctor-leo-mellor/  

Hosted by Sophie Seita Readers: Caspar Heinemann, Luke McMullan, and Wendy Lotterman Caspar Heinemann is an artist, writer and poet based in Berlin. They are interested in queer mysticism, critical eco-poetics, and countercultural aesthetics. Recent events include readings at the Serpentine Miracle Marathon, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, and Basis voor Aktuele Kunst, Utrecht. They have […]

A rediscovered revision copy of The Golden Treasury reveals the enduring influence of Alfred, Lord Tennyson on the English literary canon. Michael Sullivan, a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of English, has discovered a revision copy of Britain’s best-known poetry anthology, The Golden Treasury, which sheds new light on the development of the English literary […]