Faculty of English

Orlando: A Pornobiography – Research Events, Theatre-Making Masterclasses, and a New Performance from piss / CARNATION (52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals and Ugly Sisters) With the support of the Judith E Wilson Fund, the multi-award-winning trans theatre collective piss/CARNATION (52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals and Ugly Sisters) are returning to Cambridge to develop their new […]

Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson publishes Vanishing Landscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them (Hodder Press, 2025).  

Juliette Bretan traces tango’s musical journey eastwards to Poland and beyond. A frenzied, interwar explosion of creativity that still echoes today with some unexpected revivals. Tango Goes East will be broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday 27 April at 7.15pm.  

Ross Wilson has edited Percy Shelley in Context, which is published by Cambridge University Press on 24th April.  With 40 contributors from seven countries, this volume draws together leading experts and emerging voices on the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822).  The volume shows Shelley to have been a writer in the broadest […]

Professor Sarah Dillon contributes expert insight to the BBC ’s Changing Climates series which runs Monday 21st April to Friday 25th April on Radio 4 Extra.  Presented by the meteorologist John Hammond, with contributions by another Cambridge academic – Professor Mike Hulme in Geography – the series explores how science fiction has long served as […]

Dr Rebecca Anne Barr has just published Revisiting Richardson (Bucknell University Press). Co-edited with Prof. Bonnie Latimer (University of Southampton), this collection of essays updates critical debate on the writings of Samuel Richardson and reconsiders his literary legacies. For more information see https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/revisiting-richardson/9781684485659/

Prof. Hurley will join Australian Catholic University (ACU) at its North Sydney campus in September, contributing to teaching across the curriculum of its Western Civilisation Program, delivering the Aletheia Lecture, and conducting a Masterclass at the Ramsay Centre. He will also give a keynote address to the ACU community. Professor Peter Anstey, Director of the Western […]

The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab now has an embryonic website where future events will sit: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/micl/ The Lab is a new initiative to explore how the creative arts and creative industries might engage with medieval sources.  The Principal Investigator on this project is Professor Anthony Bale.