Claire Watt has been awarded the William St Clair Fellowship at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. This Early Career Fellowship honours the life and work of William St Clair by helping to support the research and professional development of early career researchers in languages, literatures and cultures. As the William St Clair […]
Continue ReadingThe Medieval Ideas Creative Lab hosts ‘Telling Stories from Medieval England and Ireland, Thursday 16 October
The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab hosts two innovative spoken word performances using medieval sources: Debbie Cannon, ‘Green Knight’ and Lara McClure, ‘Oral Tradition: Iron Age Ulster in the 11th-Century imagination’. October 16th at Judith E Wilson Drama Studio. Places are free but very limited so booking is essential. Further details and tickets here.
Continue ReadingAnthony Bale in conversation with Getty manuscripts curator Larisa Grollemond
On 4 September Anthony Bale will be in conversation (online) with Larisa Grollemond at the Getty, Los Angeles, as part of their ‘Art Break’ series, talking about ‘Pilgrimage, War, Trade: Travel in the Middle Ages’. Link to further details: https://www.getty.edu/calendar/art-break-middle-ages-travel/
Continue ReadingLeverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2026
The Faculty of English and Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic welcome applications from potential applicants for the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Scheme 2026. The Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (ECF) is a highly prestigious and competitive, post-doctoral award for researchers who are near the start of their career. The Leverhulme Trust awards approximately 100 three-year fellowships nationally, for early career researchers […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives the keynote lecture at the University of Prague Centre for Medieval Studies summer school
Professor Anthony Bale gives the keynote lecture, entitled ‘Inside the archive of medieval travel: pilgrims’ libraries, itineraries, ephemera’, at the Univerzita Karlova/Charles University of Prague Centre for Medieval Studies summer school at Sázava monastery, Czechia, on September 5th 2025. On September 4th 2025, Professor Bale is at the Božská Lahvice bookshop in central Prague to […]
Continue ReadingThe Medieval Ideas Creative Lab offers Digital Artists’ Bursaries
The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab is offering Digital Artists’ Bursaries, a unique opportunity for playful experimentation and the space to create. The Creative Lab Digital Bursaries are conceived as transformative artistic grants, for digital artists to explore new approaches and ways of thinking through engaging with the Middle Ages and medieval collections in Cambridge. The […]
Continue ReadingNew research on Jordan Peele’s horror films by Dominic O’Key
Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a chapter on Jordan Peele in Animality and Horror Cinema: Creaturely Fear on Film. The essay, titled ‘Jordan Peele’s Animals: Zoological Horror, Afropessimist Allegory and the Alien Superstar’, explores the representation of deer, rabbits, horses, chimps and aliens in Peele’s cinematic works. Animality and Horror Cinema […]
Continue ReadingDr Helen Charman wins the Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Scholarship 2025
The Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Scholarship is intended to support research into Dame Ivy’s life and work and to increase awareness of the brilliance of her writing. Dr Charman will be working on the theme of governesses in Dame Ivy’s novels and will produce both an essay and a series of podcasts. Link to further information: https://www.ivycompton-burnett.com/post/scholarship-winner-2025
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on the mixed blessings of AI — broadcast this morning on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’
Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lt2b34 Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FXSnGBAndb6ox8c7Wb3eJ?si=027798b6973c4f01 Catch up on other recent episodes too: on time and language.
Continue ReadingDr Rebecca Barr publishes an article in The Conversation on Cold War Steve’s reimagining of ‘A Rake’s Progress’
Dr Rebecca Barr has published an article in The Conversation on a reimagining of William Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress by British satirist, Cold War Steve, which features Donald Trump in the starring role. The contemporary satirist takes Hogarth as both visual and moral precedent, suggesting a bad end lies in store for the president. The article shows how […]
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