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 […]

The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab now has an embryonic website where future events will sit: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/micl/ The Lab is a new initiative to explore how the creative arts and creative industries might engage with medieval sources.  The Principal Investigator on this project is Professor Anthony Bale.

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 […]

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED.  Details will be circulated when the new time for this event is confirmed Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory: 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 […]

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, […]