Faculty of English

Look out for Faculty of English events at the Cambridge Festival:

From 2pm Friday 23 February to 2pm Saturday 24 February 2024 The Antechapel, Trinity College This is a non-stop, 24-hour, livestreamed event open to the public. Trinity alumnus Pip Torrens – known for his roles in The Crown, Succession and most recently Mr Bates vs the Post Office – will open the Byrothon, the inaugural […]

Thank you for your interest in our A Level Coursework Days, unfortunately they are now all fully booked. If you are interested in bringing your English class to visit the Faculty please get in touch via outreach@english.cam.ac.uk and our Outreach Co-ordinator will be in touch.

Byron Now Trinity College Cambridge will host a two-day event to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death on 19 April 1824, in Missolonghi, Greece. Byron was a student at Trinity College and is one of its most celebrated alumni. While enrolled as an undergraduate, Byron published his collection of poetry, Hours of […]

After running a couple of pilot days last year, we have decided that the Faculty will run A Level coursework days as our standard offer to schools requesting a visit. These will take place during the weeks that Cambridge terms have finished but schools are still in, and priority will be given to schools that […]

Sarah Dillon joins presenter Matthew Sweet, fellow academic David Hering, and filmmaker Daniel Bird on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking (1st February 2024) to discuss the film that some have called the best science fiction film ever made: Andrej Zulawski’s epic On the Silver Globe. Zulawski (1940-2016) studied cinema in France and became known for […]

The title of the article is ‘T.S. Eliot, Post-War Geopolitics and “Eastern Europe”’ and it is available to read here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/criq.12766

Poetry Reading at Churchill College Sandeep Parmar and Anthony Anaxagorou: 5.15pm on Saturday, January 27th  Lauryn Anderson and Jigisha Bhattacharya will be introducing the poets. Please arrive at 5.15pm for a 5.30pm start in the Bevin Room. The event will last an hour. Wine/soft drinks/nibbles to follow! Sandeep Parmar is Professor of English Literature at […]

Dr Leo Mellor gives a lecture on ‘A claustrophobic (or claustrophiliac) literary history of the long-1930s’ at LMU Munich on 17 January 2024.