Our first session will be on Thurs 16th October in room GR03 (Faculty of English). We’re kicking off with Anne Southwell’s commonplace book: please do spread the word and come along!
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Stay tuned for the chain of lateral - even anarchic! - connections we make as we traverse the period
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Each session of our reading group is led by one of our graduate students, who suggests material - textual or otherwise - for that week. As part of the discussion, we aim to find a ‘common-place’ between the current week’s material and that from the previous week
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Painting of several sheets of paper held together by a band. Caption reads: Commonplace Cambridge. A reading group and research workshop for early modern graduate students at the University of Cambridge
We are excited to announce the launch of Commonplace Cambridge, a reading group and research space for early modern graduate students at the University of Cambridge, based primarily in the English Faculty!
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AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in early-modern Europe
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
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Celebrating the arts, sciences, and ideas that shape our world 🌍✨
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Early modern literature professor, University of Cambridge; climate activist. Coordinator of http://royalsocietyletter.uk and https://gmcletter.wordpress.com/
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare; editing (2GV for Arden), introducing (R&J for Cambridge), writing (Textile Shakespeare, forthcoming from Oxford UP Nov 2025!) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
Sorting books and knowing things. Library supporting the teaching and research for the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge. Working under @theul.bsky.social.
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Term Hours:
Mon-Fri: 9.30am to 7pm
Sat: 11am-5pm
WEMP | postgrad workshop supported by the Faculty of History, Cambridge | forum for research on every aspect of early modern history
PhD student at the University of Cambridge, researching the four natural elements, poetics, and early modern proto-scientific writing
