Professor James Raven has received the prestigious 2025 Wenjin Book Award, for his edited book ‘The Illustrated History of the Book’. The annual prize, awarded by the National Library of China, is considered one of the country’s highest literary honours. Titles selected for the award combine in-depth research with writing aimed at the general public. […]

Professor Subha Mukherji joins Natalya Din-Kariuki, Issam Kourbaj and Rowan Williams for a panel at HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2025, on 25 May, to talk about Migrant Forms. Link to further information: https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/journeys-into-the-unknown-19156

Professor Subha Mukherji gives the key-note lecture at Waters: Fluidity and Crossing in Shakespeare and Early Modern Texts, the 15th conference of IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies), which takes place in Lecce from 16-17 May 2025. The title of Professor Mukherji’s paper is: ‘”Weary of solid firmness”: early modern crossings and […]

Orlando: A Pornobiography – Research Events, Theatre-Making Masterclasses, and a New Performance from piss / CARNATION (52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals and Ugly Sisters) With the support of the Judith E Wilson Fund, the multi-award-winning trans theatre collective piss/CARNATION (52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals and Ugly Sisters) are returning to Cambridge to develop their new […]

Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson publishes Vanishing Landscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them (Hodder Press, 2025).  

Juliette Bretan traces tango’s musical journey eastwards to Poland and beyond. A frenzied, interwar explosion of creativity that still echoes today with some unexpected revivals. Tango Goes East will be broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday 27 April at 7.15pm.  

Ross Wilson has edited Percy Shelley in Context, which is published by Cambridge University Press on 24th April.  With 40 contributors from seven countries, this volume draws together leading experts and emerging voices on the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822).  The volume shows Shelley to have been a writer in the broadest […]

Professor Sarah Dillon contributes expert insight to the BBC ’s Changing Climates series which runs Monday 21st April to Friday 25th April on Radio 4 Extra.  Presented by the meteorologist John Hammond, with contributions by another Cambridge academic – Professor Mike Hulme in Geography – the series explores how science fiction has long served as […]

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/