Juliette Bretan has been awarded a one-month Fellowship at the Nordost Institut in Lüneburg, to look at the idea of the study of Eastern Europe in English and European culture. The Nordost Institut is a research institution focusing on the history and culture of Germans in northeastern Europe as well as the history and culture […]

https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call-for-papers-bsls-winter-symposium-january-30th-2026-alternate-histories-of-the-body/ In recent years, diverse fields related to literature and science studies, such as the medical humanities, critical neurodiversity studies, and the study of the haptic, have been re-evaluating the human body, its histories, and the impact of those histories today. At the same time, fields such as feminist theory, critical race theory, trans studies, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. 

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, […]