As she prepares to begin work on a new introduction for the New Cambridge Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries is writing about Romeo and Juliet every day in 2018, line by line. So far she’s got to Act 1 Scene 3 – Romeo and Juliet haven’t actually met yet… You can read the […]

Ted Hughes came to Cambridge in 1951, to read English at Pembroke. In 1953 he dreamed a burned fox entered his room one night as he struggled with an essay.  It told him: ‘Stop this — you are destroying us.’ In February 1956 he met Sylvia Plath at a party to launch St Botolph’s Review. […]

Come hear these stellar poets perform at the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio at Cambridge University, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, UK! KATY BOHINC is a poet and data scientist; an avant-garde publisher and a professional marketer; an activist, an astrologer and an innovator. She has three books of poetry: TRINITY STAR TRINITY […]

MATERIALS SEMINAR & READING SERIES Email David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk) for details Saturday, February 24th Sean Bonney Reading and Seminar UK launch of GHOSTS Sean Bonney will give a paper on Amiri Baraka at 16:00 in GR06/07, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, and a reading at 20:00 in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio. This will […]

The 2017-18 issue of the English Faculty Magazine, 9 West Road, is now available on the Faculty website: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter/9westroad17.pdf

How can Universities better serve the public good? Dr Alison Wood (English/CRASSH) has won a British Academy Rising Stars Engagement Award (£14,500) to convene a research network on Critical University Studies (CUS). 20 early career researchers from 13 institutions and 10 disciplines are gathering to consider how Critical University Studies – and so also Universities […]

The Alchemical Landscape Research Seminar continues at CRASSH. This term’s programme includes talks by artists, writers, academics and film-makers: Sarah Turner (University of Kent) Polyphonic Cinema 5pm 30 January 2018, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Karl Bell (Portsmouth) Supernatural Cities: Urban Mindscapes and Academic Liminality 13 February 2018, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building […]

1-6 July 2018. Literature Cambridge presents Virginia Woolf and Politics summer course, Wolfson College. A week’s immersion in Woolf’s writings, with leading scholars. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/2018/. 8-13 July 2018. Literature Cambridge presents Women Writers: Emily Bronte to Elizabeth Bowen summer course, Homerton College. A week’s intensive study of 5 great women writers, with lectures, supervisions, excursions, readings, […]

Laura McCormick Kilbride and Orla Polten have edited a special issue of The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, dedicated to exploring the significance of Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads on the 150th year anniversary of its publication, also containing an article by Faculty PhD candidate Oliver Goldstein. Issue contents: http://jprs.apps01.yorku.ca/journal/volume-26-fall-2017/

Laura McCormick Kilbride delivers a plenary lecture at ‘The Poetics of Faith: Exploring Belief in Modern and Contemporary Poetry’ conference, held at the University of York, 12-14 January 2018. Conference website: https://poetryandfaith.wordpress.com