Faculty of English

‘Past Mirth, Present Laughter?: Forms of Comedy 1300-1900: This event will be taking place on the 4th May, 9:30-18:00 English Faculty,  GR06/07 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP ‘Past Mirth, Present Laughter?’ is a postgraduate Conference which seeks to bring the comic works of the past back into the critical spotlight of the present-day academy. ‘[One] […]

As Visiting Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, Professor Hurley will offer lectures and seminars across a broad curriculum. The Professorship is also an opportunity to engage with the University’s postgraduate research community, and to collaborate with academic staff in the Faculté des Lettres, notably Professor Alexis Tadié, with whom Professor Hurley shares cross-disciplinary interests […]

Tuesday 2nd May, 5.00-7.00 (launch), and then at selected times until 10th May: REFORMATIONS, an exhibition of wearable artwork about bodies, memory, text and transformation. The pieces in this show have been made by Jane Partner, Fellow in English at Trinity Hall and are exhibited in the college’s stunning Elizabethan Old Library, where they are presented […]

Bhanu Kapil | Incubation: A Space For Monsters Tuesday, April 25th 2023 7pm-10pm For the launch of Bhanu Kapil’s Incubation: a space for monsters, Prototype presents readings and performances from Bhanu Kapil & Blue Pieta (featuring musicians/performers Yasmin Rai & Nina Harries), Sarona Abuaker, Sandeep Parmar, Azad Ashim Sharma and Stephanie Sy-Quia. Link to further […]

Bonnie Lander Johnson chaired a discussion with Booker-Prize winner Eleanor Catton at the Cambridge Literary Festival. They discussed Catton’s most recent eco-thriller, Birnam Wood and the politics of land ownership, conservation and big tech.

300 school children aged 11-18 came to Cambridge for a day of writing with YA author, Manjeet Mann and Downing Fellow in English, Bonnie Lander Johnson. Students were given a college tour, an introduction to English at Cambridge, and an opportunity to read their work from the big stage. Quentin Blake (English and Downing alum) […]

Ted Tregear’s first book, Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593–1603, is published by Oxford University Press in April 2023. Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare’s works. Some featured whole poems, while others chose short passages from his poems and plays, gathered alongside lines on similar topics by his […]

Philip Knox has been shortlisted for a Cambridge SU Student-Led Teaching Award in the category ‘Postgraduate Research Supervisor of the Year’. Link to further information about the Student-Led Teaching Awards: https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/ourpriorities/education/student-ledteachingawards/

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation’, edited by James Gabrillo and Nathaniel Zetter, with one of the chapters written by Caroline Bassett. Nathaniel Zetter is a College Teaching Associate in English at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Caroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities in the […]

The Fitzwilliam Museum’s new exhibition ‘Islanders: the making of the Mediterranean’ has received critical acclaim, thanks in part to the resources funded by Cambridge Digital Humanities. CDH provided a Digitisation Award to bring archival material –  notebooks, plans, and photographs that document archaeology at Knossos from the 1930s to the 1950s – from the British School at […]