Dr Sarah Dillon’s new book, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film is published this month with Edinburgh University Press. The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film explores the interconnections between these three fields through detailed filmic and philosophical close […]
Continue Reading‘Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond’, 2–4 July 2018, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond 2–4 July 2018 Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Law and Literature has come of age, evolving from the vexations of the early 1990s into a thriving field across periods, with the English Renaissance still a major locus. With the authority and intellectual security this progress gives […]
Continue ReadingDr David Winters co-edits ‘Conversations with Gordon Lish’, published June 2018
David Winters has co-edited the collected interviews of writer, editor and teacher Gordon Lish. The book, titled Conversations with Gordon Lish, is published by Mississippi University Press: http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2114
Continue ReadingOriginal artwork from ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes on display in the Faculty of English, May 2018
Ted Hughes and George Adamson Ted Hughes was one of the great writers for children, and his first three children’s books, Meet My Folks!, The Iron Man and How the Whale Became all benefited from a collaboration with the illustrator George Worsley Adamson (1913-2005). Thanks to the generosity of his son John, Pembroke’s collection includes […]
Continue ReadingDr John Regan publishes new book: ‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–90’ (Anthem Press, 2018)
Dr John Regan’s new book, ‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–90’, is published by Anthem Press: http://www.anthempress.com/poetry-and-the-idea-of-progress-1760-90
Continue ReadingCUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards
We are pleased to learn that several of our academics have won awards or been commended in the CUSU Student Led-Teaching Awards. Congratulations to Priya, Ruth, Louise, Sarah, Jane, Hester, and Chris and all of the other amazing teaching staff who won, were commended or shortlisted for this award. Well done! https://www.cusu.co.uk/articles/winners-student-led-teaching-awards English Faculty Members […]
Continue ReadingA new book edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson asks, what is blood? (May 2018)
“A powerful and coherent collection of essays that illuminates the various facets of a fascinating subject. It greatly enriches our sense of the meanings of blood and will have a major impact in medieval and Renaissance studies.”—Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan A new book edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson asks, what is blood? In late […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Kennedy publishes new book: ‘T.S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination’ (CUP, 2018)
Downing College is hosting a book launch for T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination by Dr Sarah Kennedy, Fellow in English, on Wednesday 16 May, 5.00-7.00pm in the Howard Building Drawing Room. Described in readers’ reports as ‘enticing and surprising’; ‘clear, perceptive, and, in many respects, definitive’, T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination is a study of metaphor and the […]
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