Faculty of English

A talk delivered at this year’s Hay Festival by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) is now available to stream online through Hay Anytime. Dr Hester was invited to Hay to speak about a queer sense of place and his book, Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories. In celebration of LGBT Pride month, his talk will […]

Ugly Sisters – the surreal rendition of a real-life encounter between Germaine Greer and her transgender superfan which bridges live-art, alt-comedy and speculative fiction. The latest work of award-winning performers piss / CARNATION, co-created in collaboration with François·e Charmaille, with the support of the Judith E. Wilson Practice-Led Research Fund. Free entry. 6pm, 25th and […]

‘Tangaroa ✕ Tagaloa: Pasifika popular music and climate justice’ Speakers: Dr Kirsten Zemke and Luka Leleiga Lim-Cowley Friday 14 June, 1pm-3pm Faculty of English, room SR24 The Pacific region is one of the most severely impacted areas in the world by climate change; the countries comprising the Pacific, however, are amongst many of the lowest […]

Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston’s monograph, Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health (OUP, 2023), was Highly Commended by the judges of the 2024 British Association for Irish Studies Book Prize at a ceremony at the Irish Embassy in London. The judges described the book as a ‘notable and arresting’ study that provides ‘a distinctively new perspective’ on […]

Call for Participation CDH Reactor: Watershed Investigations Data Lab 13 Jun 2024  10:00–17:00  The Old IT Room, 17 Mill Lane 14 Jun 2024  10:00–13:00  Seminar Room E, 17 Mill Lane The CDH Reactor programme is back and Cambridge Digital Humanities is looking for participants from the PhD and ECR community for our next Data Lab […]

Invitation from Mary Jean Chan: You are warmly invited to a Poetry Reading by Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow Mary Jean Chan and two guest poets, Rachael Allen and Sanah Ahsan this Friday (31 May, 6-7pm at the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English). Please reserve your ticket below: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/faculty-reading-mary-jean-chan-sanah-ahsan-and-rachael-allen-tickets-913770641587

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’.