The online version of  of  9 West Road , Volume 16/Winter 2016  is now available https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/alumni/ Print copies will be distributed shortly. If you have any comments or suggestions, or if you know of anyone who might like to receive this newsletter and is not on the Faculty’s mailing list, please contact: Newsletter Editor Faculty […]

Dr Sophie Seita, a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, will perform her short play “Les Bijoux Indiscrets”, the second in a series of keenly unfaithful ‘translations’ of Enlightenment tragedies and pseudo-scientific texts of the period, at Issue Project Room in New York. Props and set by Emmy Catedral. Performed by an all-female cast: Corina […]

Professor Dame Gillian Beer’s new book Alice in Space: the sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll is published by The University of Chicago Press in the States on 12 December 2016, and in the UK on 9 January 2017. Nature commissioned Gillian Beer to write an article about this book for their November 17 issue: […]

Molly G Yarn, PhD candidate in the Faculty of English, speaks at the Charles Lamb Society’s annual study day on 10 December. The day’s theme is ‘The Lamb Circle and Shakespeare’. The study day takes place at Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury.

Dr Jenny Bavidge gives a talk on the origins of Sleeping Beauty as part of the Royal Ballet’s ‘Insights’ series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl-zGm4UWEs