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, […]

Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.  Books may be nominated by publishers, by members of BARS, or by authors themselves. Link to further information and to nominate a book: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?  

Professor Ross Wilson has been appointed to the Editorial Board of ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’, a series of original critical studies devoted to literature in English from the early 1780s to the early 1830s, published by Cambridge University Press. Link to the ‘Cambridge Studies in Romanticism’ webpage: https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-studies-in-romanticism/6485F1785BF8BB2BB360791BDE050CCC

Dr Beryl Pong (UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer) and her team at the Centre for Drones and Culture will be at the Imperial War Museum (IWM North) to show a VR version of their immersive film about the psychology of drone warfare, Beware Blue Skies (from 30 October – 2 November 2025). This is […]

The title of Professor Pettitt‘s lecture is ‘Groundless Empire and Grounded Resistance’ and it takes place on Friday 24 October, at 6pm Indian Standard Time / 1.30pm UK time.  It is part of UNESCO’s series of lectures on ‘The Literature of Sustainability: Reading, Writing and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals’.  Professor Pettitt’s lecture relates […]

Christ’s College’s new and improved Darkness Visible Milton study site (relaunching December 2026) seeks blog posts of c.1500-2000 words relating to the works, life, times, contemporaries and afterlives of John Milton. The site is primarily a resource for studying Paradise Lost aimed at schools, university applicants, undergraduates, and anyone else interested in getting to know the poem better. The new blog […]

Humanities Exploration Day 2025 – Bradford Tue 9 Dec 2025 9:30 AM – 10:30 PM New College, Bradford, BD5 0DX The School of Arts and Humanities is hosting a Humanities Exploration Day on the 9th December 2025 at New College, Bradford. The aim is to give students the opportunity to experience university-level teaching in a […]