Francesca Gardner’s short film, based on her research into light, commonplacing, and the literary essay, will be shown for the first time at the launch of this year’s Cambridge Festival at West Hub on 13th March. The film, titled ‘Making Light of Essays | Making Essays of Light’, was made in collaboration with creative professional […]

Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston is interviewed for an episode of Archive on 4 marking the 60th anniversary of the death of the Irish playwright, creative non-fiction writer, and bon viveur, Brendan Behan. It will air on the 16th of March at 8pm on Radio 4, and will be available online afterwards via this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xfd0

Dr Jennifer Wallace speaks about Byron and Greece alongside Professors Roderick Beaton, David Ricks and Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri at a special event in London to commemorate the bicentenary of the poet’s death at Missolonghi. Two hundred years on from his death in Greece on 19 April 1824, Byron remains one of the most important […]

Well Beings is a cultural history of the 1970s with an emphasis on alternative health, experimental well-being and inner space exploration.  In essence, Well Beings is a secret history of modern wellness that takes the reader on a strange trip from the panoramic vistas of the Esalen Institute to the vast darkness of the flotation tank by way […]

James Raven’s new edited book Global Exchanges of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century: Ideas and Materialities c 1650-1850 was published by Boydell this week. Link to further information: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837650163/global-exchanges-of-knowledge-in-the-long-eighteenth-century/.

On 26 February 2024 Clare Pettitt spoke at the launch of The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form eds. Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling (London: Routledge, 2024).  The book includes a chapter that Pettitt has joint written with Art Historian, Professor Caroline Arscott (The Courtauld Institute of Art) entitled, ‘Multicolour as Disavowal: […]

Third year PhD student Lauryn Anderson has been awarded a prestigious Jane Eliza Procter Fellowship to attend Princeton University for the academic year 2024-25. Procter fellowships, nominated by the trustees of Oxford and Cambridge, are awarded on both the basis of a very high standard of academic achievement, as well as in recognition of fellows’ […]

Look out for Faculty of English events at the Cambridge Festival:

From 2pm Friday 23 February to 2pm Saturday 24 February 2024 The Antechapel, Trinity College This is a non-stop, 24-hour, livestreamed event open to the public. Trinity alumnus Pip Torrens – known for his roles in The Crown, Succession and most recently Mr Bates vs the Post Office – will open the Byrothon, the inaugural […]

Thank you for your interest in our A Level Coursework Days, unfortunately they are now all fully booked. If you are interested in bringing your English class to visit the Faculty please get in touch via outreach@english.cam.ac.uk and our Outreach Co-ordinator will be in touch.