Monstrum, by Lottie Mills, a short story collection published by Oneworld in 2024, has been longlisted for the 2025 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, the world’s largest and most prestigious literary prize for young writers. Lottie Mills is a current English MPhil student at Newnham College, as well as a Newnham graduate. Link to more […]

Want to learn more about Matoaka/Pocahontas and Her story, people & legacy Her captivity, conversion & London trip The archive & its limits Indigenous art & expression? Join us on Tuesday 4 February 5pm UK/12pm NYC/9am PST for an online panel discussion and Q & A about the life and legacy of Matoaka/Pocahontas to celebrate […]

Anthony Bale appears on BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ to talk about the myth of Pope Joan.  The broadcast date is Thursday 30 January, BBC Radio 4, 9am (repeated Sunday, 11pm).  After broadcast, the programme can be listened to on BBC Sounds. The discussion is chaired by Melvyn Bragg.  The panellists for this episode are: […]

‘Medieval Women and Curating Manuscripts in the 21st Century’ Thursday 30 January 5.30pm-7pm Stanley Library, Girton College Julian Harrison (Curator of Medieval Manuscripts at the British Library and Co-curator of the current Medieval Women exhibition at the BL) and Professor Anthony Bale explore the possibilities and challenges of using digital technology to bring medieval authors […]

‘Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum’ is a joint seminar of the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum and the Institute of Classical Studies (School of Advanced Studies, University of London). Wednesday 5 February 2025 4pm to 6.30pm Location: room 264, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E […]

Orlando Reade, “Awake! Arise! Paradise Lost and the Black Radical Tradition.” Thursday, 6 February 2025, 5:30 p.m. Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens’ College Orlando Reade studied at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and then at Princeton, where he received a PhD in 2020. He is now assistant professor of English at Northeastern University, London. His first book, What […]

The Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; Stanford Text Technologies, Stanford University, and The University Library Research Institute are delighted to announce a Call for Papers for the international conference ‘The Craft, Texture, and Aesthetics of Letter Forms from Antiquity to the Present’. Venue:  University of Cambridge, Faculty of English Dates: 2nd to 4th September […]

Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a chapter on Amitav Ghosh in Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture. The chapter, co-written with Akshita Bhardwaj (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad), tracks Ghosh’s shifting representations of endangered cetaceans in his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019). Blue Extinction is edited by Vera […]

Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice edited by Subha Mukherji and Dunstan Roberts is published by Palgrave Macmillan, January 2025. Link to further information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-74093-0 Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice is part of the ‘Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature’ book series.  Subha Mukherji is Editor-in-Chief for the series.  Series Editors […]