Faculty of English

Steven Connor discusses his book Living by Numbers at the Words By The Water Festival of Literature and Ideas, Keswick, on 3rd March 2017.

Literature Cambridge presents Literature Study Days at Stapleford Granary. Lectures by Cambridge academics, open to the public. Booking essential. Saturday 25 February – Alice in Space. Gillian Beer and Zoe Jaques Bookings: https://staplefordgranary.org.uk/whats-on/lcaas17-alice-in-space.aspx Saturday 18 March – Tragedy: Past and Present. Jennifer Wallace, Adrian Poole, Alison Hennegan Bookings: https://staplefordgranary.org.uk/whats-on/lctd16-tragedy,-past-and-present.aspx Saturday 29 April – Reading Pride […]

Dr Sophie Seita is invited to present her work at the University of Southampton, as part of a new poetry and performance series called Entropics, curated by Dr Sarah Hayden: https://entropicsblog.wordpress.com/ Monday 27 February 2017

What possibilities and challenges does the digital age pose for the cultural archive? How do the portals through which we approach the text (tags, hyperlinks, indexes) change the nature of what we access? How can computational technologies not merely represent, but also remediate, large corpora or datasets. How might current and prospective projects distinguish themselves […]

Dr Mina Gorji joins Melvyn Bragg on ‘In Our Time‘ to discuss the poet, John Clare.  Listen to the repeat on BBC Radio 4 at 9.30pm, Thursday 9 February.

The Emergence of Standard English in Multilingual Britain, c.1300-1800 A Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS) Workshop Thursday 20 April 2017 (08:30am – 6:30pm) and Friday 21 April 2017 (9:00am – 2:30pm) Venue: Room GR06/07 Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP Organiser: Dr Laura Wright, Reader in English Language at […]

Edward Ragg (Selwyn ’99) reads from his new collection Holding Unfailing (Cinnamon Press, 2017): Date: 11th February 2017 Time: 6.45 p.m. Venue: Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP Drinks: Wine and soft drinks will be available RSVP: If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Edward Ragg on edward.ragg@cantab.net […]

Professor David Trotter gives the Churchill Lecture at the University of Bristol on 9 February 2017, 5pm-6.45pm, LT2 (11 Woodland Road).  The title of the lecture is ‘Literary Lightning: Modernism and Media Theory’. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2017/february/churchill-lecture.html This lecture will propose lightning as a figure for modernism’s understanding of the electromagnetic frequency domain disclosed by contemporary advances in […]

4th February 2017   18.30-19.30 Rod Mengham and Ian Patterson will be reading their poetry at the Anna Mendelssohn Symposium University of Sussex

Dr Laura Wright is mentioned in a article in The Guardian (Society, Saturday 22 October): ‘If it had a lovely, posh name, it might have been different’: do street names matter? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/22/street-names-matter-property-values