American Literature Graduate Symposium: “American Stuff” Saturday 14 May, 2016 GR06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge Keynotes: David Brauner (Reading), Pamela Thurschwell (Sussex) Defending his unadorned, realist style, William Dean Howells remarked in a 1903 letter to Charles Norton: ‘I am not sorry for having wrought in common, crude material so much; that […]
Continue ReadingDr Joe Moshenska’s ‘A Stain in the Blood’ Published on May 4 2016 by Heinemann
Dr Joe Moshenska’s new book ‘A Stain in the Blood – The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby‘ is the story of an extraordinary life and of a journey that helped to shape a nation. Digby, one of the most remarkable Englishmen who ever lived, was a trusted advisor to the King, a pioneering philosopher […]
Continue Reading‘The Other Side: An Audiophonic Séance’ at the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, 12 May 2016
Bad Timing and The Alchemical Landscape present ‘The Other Side: An Audiophonic Séance’ at 7.30pm on Thursday 12 May in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. Leading Cambridge promoter of experimental music, Bad Timing, and members of the ongoing Alchemical Landscape research project invite you to an evening of […]
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold: Keynote Lecture at University of Alicante, 3 May 2016
Dr Orietta Da Rold is at the University of Alicante on 3 May to give a Keynote Lecture entitled ‘Middle English Texts in their Material Context’.
Continue ReadingDr Rob MacFarlane Praises Choice of Nan Shepherd as Face of Scottish £5 Note
The new Scottish £5 note featuring the author Nan Shepherd will enter circulation later this year. As well as an image of Shepherd, the £5 note includes a quote from her first novel, The Quarry Wood – “It’s a grand thing to get leave to live” – and one from The Living Mountain: “But the […]
Continue ReadingJ H Prynne Gives Judith E Wilson Poetry Lecture, 2016
Mr J H Prynne gives the Judith E Wilson Poetry Lecture, 2016, at 5pm on Thursday 5 May. The title of the lecture is ‘Reading Kazoo’. The venue is Little Hall, Sidgwick Site. All are welcome. Enquiries: Drew Milne – agm33@cam.ac.uk
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee Awarded Leverhulme Fellowship for 2016/17
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for 2016/2017 to work on his next project: The Life and Library of Columbus’ Bastard Son. Hernando Colón, son of Columbus the explorer, was the collector of the first great library of the print age, the core of which survives today as the Biblioteca Colombina within […]
Continue ReadingDr Ross Wilson on Byron at Trinity (and Other Things) on BBC Radio 4
In ‘Lords and Sizars’, Episode 5 of Scenes from Student Life, Dr Wilson talks to recent graduate Ellie Cawthorne about Byron’s time at Trinity College and the class divide between student privilege and poor sizars in Byron’s time and today.
Continue ReadingPoetry Reading on Saturday April 30, 2016
Poetry Reading on Saturday 30 April, 2016. 8pm to 9.30pm in the Faculty of English Judith E Wilson Drama Studio. Featuring: Geoff Gilbert & Alex Houen, Chris Nealon and Sophie Mayer
Continue ReadingCMT Exhibition Space: Something New: Shakespeare in Eastern Africa
“Something New: Shakespeare in Eastern Africa” is an exhibition with just a few tantalizing samples of the extraordinary Shakespearean stories, texts, and events that have formed part of East African history over the past century and a half. Shakespearean works accompanied Victorian expeditions into the interior as their only reading, were among the first printed […]
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