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The English Faculty

The Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, is an international centre of excellence for the study, teaching and research in literature and literary criticism. The Faculty was founded in 1919 and has since been home to some of the most eminent critics, scholars, teachers and writers of English literature in the world.

You can find out about current Faculty activity via the latest news feed (at right), or browse the news archive. In-depth features on some of our research projects, publications and impact can be found on the Faculty’s Research Features page.

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Undergraduate Admissions

What distinguishes the Cambridge English course is its balance between a solid grounding in the essentials of the discipline, and the opportunity to specialize and to innovate.

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Postgraduate Admissions

Here you will find an introduction to the courses we offer, how to apply for postgraduate study, how your application will be processed, immigration and other important information.

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Latest news

Laura Wright (ed), ‘The Multilingual Origins of Standard English’, Mouton de Gruyter, was published on 7 September 2020

This collaboration by nineteen historical linguists shows why […]

For the academic year 20-21 Dr Michael Hrebeniak and Dr Christopher Warnes were awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowships

Michael’s project is: The Cultural History and Documentary […]

Paperback edition of Dr Fred Parker’s book ‘On Declaring Love: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen’ (Routledge) comes out on 30 September 2020

This book explores the act of declaring love […]

Dr Laura Davies writes the fourth article in the University’s ‘Beyond the Pandemic Series’, in which she reflects on the need to talk about death

Dr Laura Davies writes the fourth article in […]

‘The ‘A Good Death?’ project led by Dr Laura Davies, in collaboration with Menagerie Theatre Company, today launch three original audio dramas, which explore death, dying and bereavement: ‘Seven Arguments with Grief’, ‘End of Life Care – A Ghost Story’ and ‘A Look, A Wave’

Seven Arguments with Grief, End of Life Care […]

Louise Joy has published a new monograph called ‘Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections’

Louise Joy has published a new monograph called […]

Dr Edward Allen (Christ’s College and Faculty of English) has had his first monograph published by Cambridge University Press

Modernist Invention: Media Technology and American Poetry attends […]

Athena Swan Bronze Award

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