PhD Candidate Liam Coles (Darwin College) has co-edited the latest Issue of the Cambridge Quarterly, which focuses on the poetry and legacy of the British modernist poet, Basil Bunting. The Issue was co-edited by Liam and Dr Alex Niven (editor of Bunting’s letters) and features articles from Dr Rebecca Bradburn (Oxford), Dr Alex Wylie (York […]
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Raphael Lyne and team launch research survey to unlock the secrets of vivid memory
Do you have a memory so vivid you can relive it as if it’s happening all over again, re-experiencing the physical sensations and emotions just as you did in that moment? Researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Durham, including Professor Raphael Lyne (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge), want to understand more about vivid […]
Continue ReadingStudying English at Cambridge: online study evenings on Thursday 6th and Thursday 13th November 2025
The Faculty of English is holding two online study evenings on Thursday 6th and Thursday 13th November 2025. The events are aimed at A Level, IB or Scottish Higher English Literature students who may be considering studying English at university. If you are in Year 11 and thinking about taking English next year you are […]
Continue ReadingMary Newbould publishes ‘Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British Press and Laurence Sterne’ (Cambridge University Press)
Mary Newbould’s book in the Cambridge Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections series, Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British Press and Laurence Sterne, has just been published. There is a two-week period for free access, from 17-31st October, via the following link https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/networks-of-reception-in-the-eighteenthcentury-british-press-and-laurence-sterne/4C81D38B7D38B5EEAA9B3991CFDED2F8.
Continue ReadingLewis Roberts publishes a new video on the subject of Milton’s difficulty
Lewis Roberts, Director of Studies at Trinity, has published a new video on the subject of Milton’s difficulty. Aimed at prospective applicants and those who want to know more about studying English at university level, the film is part of a new series of interviews with academics in the humanities at Trinity. It is available […]
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil and Blue Pieta publish ‘Autobiography of a Performance’ (the87press), October 2025
“a body of work that both stuns and nourishes” – Rosalie Doubal, Senior Curator at Tate Modern “This co-authored work focuses on five performances developed by Blue Pieta, a multidisciplinary artist, director, dramaturg and performer and Bhanu Kapil, a poet, between 2022 and 2025. A public notebook of working scores and performance writing, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF […]
Continue ReadingThe Divinity Faculty @CamDivinity has launched a new MPhil pathway in Theology and Literature, taught jointly by members of the Divinity and English Faculties
Link to further information: https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/theology-and-literature-pathway Professor Michael D. Hurley will co-teach the first term’s module on Theological Literature and Literary Theology, with Dr Giles Waller from the Divinity faculty. The module explores the theological-literary complexities of works by two major theologians (Augustine’s Confessions, and John Henry Newman’s Grammar of Assent), and two theological readings of literary texts, […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Ross Wilson appointed Panel Chair for the British Association of Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2026
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. Books may be nominated by publishers, by members of BARS, or by authors themselves. Link to further information and to nominate a book: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?
Continue ReadingProfessor Ross Wilson appointed to the Editorial Board of ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’
Professor Ross Wilson has been appointed to the Editorial Board of ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’, a series of original critical studies devoted to literature in English from the early 1780s to the early 1830s, published by Cambridge University Press. Link to the ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’ webpage: https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-studies-in-romanticism/6485F1785BF8BB2BB360791BDE050CCC
Continue ReadingPop-up Installation!
In conjunction with his talk for the History of Material Texts seminar, Drew Milne has curated a small exhibition of theatre programmes from his own collection, illustrating aspects of the history of theatre programmes. They are displayed in the two vitrines on the first floor of the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road. His talk […]
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