English Faculty News

The Faculty of English at Cambridge has a diverse and lively research
culture. 
In these pages, amongst other Faculty news, you can find information about the Faculty’s research activities, including: book publications (academic, creative and trade books); keynote and public lectures; media appearances; prizes and funding awarded; organisation of major conferences, symposia and exhibitions; public engagement events, and more.

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Dr Rebecca Anne Barr publishes ‘Revisiting Richardson’, Bucknell University Press, April 2025

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/

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Prof. Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam has been made an International Visiting Fellow at Australian Catholic University @ACUmedia

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 […]

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Jade Cuttle presents her current research on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Essay’

Jade Cuttle (University of Cambridge PhD student and BBC New Generation Thinker) has turned her current English Literature research into a BBC Radio 3 Essay titled ‘Digging for Words’.  ‘The Essay’, written and presented by Jade, airs on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 9.45pm or is available online now on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298fx ‘Digging for […]

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Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory Event: ‘Why Medieval Women’s Lives Are Still Relevant’, Thursday 8 May

Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory: forthcoming event Thursday 8 May 2025, 5.30pm Seminar room GR.04, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge ‘Why Medieval Women’s Lives Are Still Relevant’ Diane Watt (Professor of English Literature, University of Surrey) and Pragya Agarwal (Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge) In advance of this informal discussion session, please read the following […]

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Dr John Colley publishes ‘Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430–1560’ (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Dr John Colley’s first monograph, Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560 (Oxford University Press) is scheduled for online publication in April 2025. The book traces the influence of the Quattrocento rebirth of Greek scholarship on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literature, and argues that attending to the period’s ideas about Greek translation fundamentally […]

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Registration open (until Friday 6 June) for ‘Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance’, 3-4 July 2025, St John’s College, Cambridge

Registration has now opened (until Friday 6 June) for ‘Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance’, a two-day conference at St John’s College, Cambridge, 3-4 July 2025. Speakers include Barbara Ravelhofer, Julie Stone Peters, and Elisabeth Dutton. Further details about the event, including a programme and how to register, are available at https://stagingsilence.wordpress.com. Space is […]

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