Faculty of English

Laura Kilbride, Orla Polten and Alex Wong organise an international conference to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s seminal collection, the Poems and Ballads of 1866.  The  conference takes place at St John’s College, Cambridge, 29-30 July 2016. By focusing on Swinburne’s most notorious work, the aim of the conference […]

Jessica Lim co-ordinates a one-day conference on children’s literature, to be held on 16 September 2016 at Lucy Cavendish College. It has an interdisciplinary focus and its theme is ‘Discovering the Child’s Voice’, with an aim to understand different methodologies that can be used in the study of children’s literature. A continuing concern within children’s […]

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Steven Connor has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. We extend our warmest congratulations to Professor Connor.

Jessica Lim is awarded a Bursary by BSECS to attend its Postgraduate and Early-Career Conference in Barcelona in late June/early July 2016 at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS)  annual postgraduate and early-career scholars’ conference provides a forum for researchers working on all aspects of the history, literature and culture […]

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2016-2017. The British Academy intends, through this scheme of Mid-Career Fellowships, both to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and social sciences.

Jessica Lim’s article ‘Appropriate(d) nursery reading; or, (implied) child readers, Charles Lamb, and the Godwins’ Juvenile Library’ is published in The Charles Lamb Bulletin, 163 (Spring 2016), 55-64.

Dr Alison Knight is awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for 2017-2020, to work on a project entitled “Stranger Churches: Hate Speech and Religious Refugees in Early Modern England.” For this project, Dr Knight explores the heated public discourse surrounding risks and responsibilities toward migrant European Protestant populations in sixteenth century England, primarily Dutch and French […]

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is at the Ways with Words Literary Festival at Dartington Hall on 13 July to talk about The Bard in Africa. Shakespeare’s plays were carried into the lake regions of Africa by Burton and Stanley; performed in Mombasa by travelling Indian troupes; read by boy soldiers in the Sudanese civil wars. Dr […]

The Faculty is sad to note the death of Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill on 30th June.  Geoffrey Hill came from a lectureship at Leeds to a teaching Fellowship in English at Emmanuel from 1981 until 1988, during which time he lectured in the Faculty.  He was elected an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel in 1990, and […]