QS World University Rankings

Cambridge’s Faculty of English has been judged the best English department in the world in the 2015 QS World University Rankings, above Oxford, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford and Yale. The QS World University Rankings are based on indicators of academic reputation, reputation among employers, Faculty-student ratio, research citations and impact and the international diversity of staff […]

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Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon

Mark McGurl, Stanford University, Author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon Thursday 4th June at 5.30pm Room G06/7, English Faculty, 9 West Road, Cambridge. Organised by the Contemporary Research Group.  See poster for more information

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Congratulations to Dr Ross Wilson

Dr Ross Wilson has been awarded the Crausaz Wordsworth Fellowship at CRASSH for Michaelmas term 2015. The Fellowship is awarded to academic staff in Cambridge who are not members of the Faculty of Philosophy to work on a philosophical topic. His project is entitled ‘The Hidden Seed of Survival: The Lives of Artworks in Benjamin […]

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Dr Gavin Alexander: ‘Greville’s legacies’

On Monday 11th May Dr Gavin Alexander delivered a public talk: ‘Greville’s legacies’ at Warwickshire County Record Office‘s event ‘Fulke Greville: a Warwickshire man at the court of Elizabeth I and James I’, as part of the team of editors working on the new Oxford edition of the complete works of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke […]

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CUSU Teaching Awards

Congratulations to Dr Ruth Abbott, Dr Helen Thavinthiran, Dr Louise Joy and Faculty Librarian Libby Tilley, who have all won CUSU Student-Led Teaching awards. More details can be found here.        

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