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 […]

The Faculty of English is delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Chris Tilmouth has been awarded one of the 2025 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching. You can find out more about this year’s winners and the history of the prize here: https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/pilkington-prize/2025

Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson will be discussing her new book Vanishing Landscapes at Heffers, Cambridge on April 10th 6-7pm. Link to further information about the event and to get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanishing-landscapes-bonnie-lander-johnson-at-heffers-bookshop-tickets-1291155935159 Vanishing Landscapes combines nature writing and social history to tell the story of how we became modern people, alienated from the landscape. The book […]

Read a review of two new books by members of the English faculty, Edward Wilson-Lee and Michael D. Hurley, in the latest issue of @TheCriticMag here.  

On Friday 14th March, Professor Sarah Dillon joins presenter Matthew Sweet and other guests on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking programme, to discuss our shifting relationship to evidence. Sarah will appear alongside Uncanny television presenter Danny Robins, the former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption, and philosophers Dr Jonathan Egid (SOAS) and Dr Anthony Milligan (KCL). […]

Dronotope: The politics of timelines and data visualisation Alison Richard Building  24th March – 11th April Cambridge Festival Event Using interactive timelines of recent developments in drone technology, the public is invited to explore the politics of how data visualisations narrate emerging technology. Link to further information about the event: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45869/ This exhibition draws from the research […]

Dr. Hannah Lucas, Newby Trust Research Fellow at Newnham College, will deliver a public lecture on Julian of Norwich as part of a short course on ‘Women Mystics: Female Theologians through Church History’, run by Sarum College in association with the Church Times. The event will be held online at 7.30-9PM on Monday 10 March, […]

Bhanu Kapil performs at the National Gallery on March 17th, as part of the Dark Readings Group convened by Katrina Palmer, artist-in-residence at the National Gallery and Professor of Fine Art (sculpture) at Slade School of Fine Art. Link to further information about this event, which is fully booked: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/performance-the-dark-readings-group-pitch-dark-and-live-at-the-national-gallery-17-03-2025

Founded in 1844, Hillsdale College is a small, Christian, classical liberal arts college in southern Michigan. In honour of the 2019 completion of “Christ Chapel” on the College quad, the Drummond Lecture Series was endowed to offer lectures that touch in significant ways on matters of faith and learning, or issues of the day related […]

Dr. Hannah Lucas, Newby Trust Research Fellow at Newnham College, was recently interviewed for the Hermitix podcast about her new book, Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being (Columbia University Press, 2025). You can listen to the episode on Spotify or via YouTube.