Faculty of English

Dr Jane Hughes, Fellow in English and Pepys Librarian at Magdalene,  has headed up a project to digitise the letters between George and Ruth Mallory; and is co-curating, with archivist Katy Green, an exhibition starting on 20th June in the Gallery, Magdalene New Library Building. George Mallory died attempting an ascent of Everest on 8th or 9th June […]

We are delighted to announce that the latest edition of The Mays anthology, edited by Lemn Sissay and Denise Riley, has been published! This 32nd edition contains new pieces of writing and artwork by students at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, and is entirely made by students. Copies can be purchased via the […]

Neo-Latin has often been perceived as a profoundly ‘secondary’ medium: temporally secondary, relative to classical Latin, and in terms of language acquisition; inventively and emotionally secondary, in its supposed reliance on allusion and received ideas; even qualitatively secondary, compared to both classical and vernacular creativity. Participants will address neo-Latin’s supposed secondariness from a range of […]

The title of Dr Mellor’s lecture is ‘The Cambridge Festival Theatre 1926-35: modernist plays and rusty megaphones’.  

On 22 May, Dr Laura Davies will lead two online workshops as part of a programme of events organised by the Collaborative Futures Academy (CFA). This is an international online programme for researchers to deepen their engagement practice and learn from diverse perspectives. This year the focus will be on Emotions in Engagement. Dr Davies […]

Audrey Chan has been awarded the Blake Emerging Scholar Award and Jim and Nancy Hinkle Student Travel Grant by the Hemingway Society to support her conference presentation and her research on the author’s relationship with the visual arts. St. John’s College has offered her the Noonan Award and Frank Hollick Fund for her research trips […]

Ellen van Neerven and Jazz Money, two leading contemporary First Nations poets from Australia, will read alongside Mary Jean Chan, the Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow, organised by Louis Klee. 7pm June 4, 2024 The Leslie Stephen Room, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TJ Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist based on Gadigal land, […]

‘The hand of Milton: Identifying the author’s annotated copy of Holinshed’s Chronicles’, an essay by researchers Claire M L Bourne, Aaron T Pratt and Jason Scott-Warren, was published in Issue 6320 of The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) on 17 May 2024.  Their identification of John Milton’s handwriting in two volumes of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587) belonging […]

The Workshop will combine conference-style papers, a keynote by Professor Marion Thain (KCL), and a group discussion session responding to pre-circulated reading, led by our keynote. The event will be followed by a drinks reception where we encourage attendees to keep the conversations going! Our topic this year is Literary Form, with a particular focus […]