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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ruth Abbott gives a keynote lecture at the British Association of Romantic Studies International Conference 2026

The keynote lecture, ‘Shared Composition: Writing and Editing in the Wordsworths’ Notebooks’, launches two editions of Wordsworth family notebooks: Ruth Abbott, A Wordsworth Family Notebook: Dove …

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CFP Marianne Moore 2027, an international conference @cam-english-fac.bsky.social. Deadline for proposals 1 Sept 2026. #modernism #poetry

Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · 6d ago

Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · 6d ago

Symposium: For Lancelot Andrewes, 1626 – 1926 – 2026

Symposium: For Lancelot Andrewes, 1626 – 1926 – 2026 23-24 September, English Faculty (9 West Road) and Pembroke College A two-day gathering to discuss the work of Lancelot Andrewes on…

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@christscollegecam.bsky.social · last wk.

Dr Trudi Tate organises ‘Woolf and the Natural World’, 2-7 August 2026

Dr Trudi Tate (Emeritus Fellow, Clare Hall), is organising the annual Virginia Woolf Summer Course for Literature Cambridge. The theme is Woolf and the Natural World, with lectures, classes, talks…

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What is the so-called 'Milton controversy'? Find out in the latest 'Miltonic Mill' blog by Dr Chris Joyce. darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/journey-thro... 📷 Christ's College Cambridge #ChristsCollegeCambridge #DarknessVisible #Milton350 #JohnMilton @cam-english-fac.bsky.social 6d

Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · 2w ago

Professor Sarah Dillon publishes study of Alan Turing’s autofictional short story ‘Pryce’s Buoy’

‘Pryce’s Buoy’, a six-page, scruffily hand-written fragment of a short story cared for by archivists at King’s College Cambridge has been transcribed and fully studied for the first time. Professo…

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 2w ago

Puck: it's FAIRY TIME! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Puck (Ajay Kumar) in the 2006 DASH Arts / @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Tim Supple. (Very slightly later in the action...)

A photograph of a play in performance. A large group of people wearing very brightly coloured clothes are sitting on a stand coloured with sand. In front of them is a smiling man, wearing a bright orange very brief loincloth; his arms and chest are wrapped with black ropes. He has a mohawk hairstyle and is smiling broadly.

What was Alan Turing really like? The ‘father of modern computing’ has an isolated mathematician image. But a racy short story he wrote, newly studied, reveals a 'cheeky' man who loved sex and literature. Read more: https://bit.ly/4fQ3ZfD 📸 National Portrait Gallery & @kingscollege.bsky.social

A split image with a header reading "New Cambridge research." It features a photograph of Alan Turing in a suit and tie on the left. On the right, there is a handwritten manuscript. The text above reads: "Alan Turing’s short story reveals a fun side to the ‘isolated’ mathematician."

Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oberon: fairies, prepare to dance & sing a blessing! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... A favourite image from the 2005 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Greg Doran: Oberon (Joe Dixon) & Titania (Amanda Harris) with the (beautiful, puppet) changeling boy & the fairies with their lanterns.

A photograph of a play in performance: two people are standing facing front, holding between them a puppet in the shape of a toddler. The man on the left is wearing a sparkly pale coat over a bare chest; the woman on the right is wearing a sparkly top with bare arms. Behind them there are shadowy figures holding poles with lanterns on them. It looks magical.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Marianne Moore: An International Conference’, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 15-17 April 2027

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 2w ago

Theseus: BEDTIME! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Theseus/Oberon and Hippolyta/Titania weren't doubled in the 2016 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream: here's Hippolyta (Laura Harding) and Theseus (Sam Redford), dir. Erica Whyman.

A photograph of a play in performance. At the rear of the stage, a woman in a white wedding dress and a man in a black suit are embracing. There are strings of fairy lights and in the foreground the stage is covered with red petals.

🎲 Scenes of play in German literature from 1750 10-12 Sept 2026, CB3 9DP Register at https://bit.ly/3TwubDn With speakers from nine countries and fields ranging from architecture to toy history, we’re excited to kickstart Play Studies in the UK and rethink how we play today

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 3w ago

Puck: it's the WITCHING HOUR! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Three Pucks, almost a century apart: Lucy Ellinson @the-rsc.bsky.social 2016 dir. Erica Whyman, Rosie Sheehy @the-rsc.bsky.social 2024 dir. Eleanor Rhode, & a promotional image: Leslie French in Regent's Park in 1935.

A photograph of a play in performance: a woman wearing a black top hat and black trouser suit with big white cuffs and red powder on the shoulders is standing in the foreground. She's got a broom in her right hand and there are red petals on the floor in front of her. There are other people sitting and standing behind, some of them sweeping the stage, and strings of fairy lights.

A person standing on a dimly lit stage. They're wearing baggy purple shorts and a pale shirt, with long socks and lace-up shoes. Their collar-length hair is green, and they're leaning on a large broom, clasping the handle in both hands.

A sepia photograph. A young man is emerging from foliage, standing on what looks like ivy. He's wearing a skimpy one-shouldered tunic and looking to his left, his right arm raised.

Bottom: what have we here? oh NO!! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Molly Hewitt-Richards as Snug as the Lion and Emmanuel Akwafo as Bottom as Pyramus and Hilson Agbangbe as Starveling as Moonshine @bridgetheatre.bsky.social 2025

A photograph of a character in a play. A woman wearing black trousers and a baggy purple sweatshirt; she's making roaring gestures and wearing a furry hat shaped like a lion

A photograph of a play in performance. A man wearing a purple sweatshirt and beanie is sitting on the stage, with his back to the camera. Another similarly dressed young man is shining a torch in his face. Off to one side there's a small animatronic dog and a mini Christmas tree.

Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 3w ago

Summer nights at Vauxhall Gardens: the scene of many a debauched Regency romance! Which brings us neatly to this month's Really Popular Book Club choice: Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer. 📅28 July ⏰7-8pm 📍Online 🎟️ https://loom.ly/v5CD4a0 🎨The Microcosm of London, 1808 (Harley-Mason.a.3-5)

A book illustration from the early nineteenth century depicting Vauxhall Gardens. We see a decorated, multi-tiered stage with musicians. Many people in evening wear mill around the stage, dancing and chatting.

Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dr Zoë Svendsen wins the dramaturgs’ network’s Established Dramaturg Award 2026

Dr Zoë Svendsen was selected as winner for the d’n (dramaturgs’ network’s) Established Dramaturg Award 2026 by a panel comprised of Robert Awosusi, Sudha Bhuchar, Frey Kwa-Hawking and …

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Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · last mo.

Dr Zoë Svendsen talks to Exeunt Magazine about making theatre in the context of climate crisis

How do we make theatre in a climate crisis? Dr Zoë Svendsen talks to Maddy Costa of Exeunt Magazine about developing a climate dramaturgy: a holistic approach to theatre-making that centres artis…

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Juliette Bretan receives a Visiting Fellowship from the University of East Anglia – Norwich

Juliette Bretan (Newnham) has been awarded an Archives and Collections Visiting Fellowship by the University of East Anglia. She will be looking at depictions of Eastern Europe in letters and med…

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Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · last mo.

Theseus: it'll be FINE! Philostrate: PROLOGUE time!😬 #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Bottom (Mathew Baynton) can't WAIT to get the show started, in the 2024 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Eleanor Rhode

A photograph of a character in a play. A man wearing a sharp double-breasted dark pinstripe suit, with yellow shirt and tie and socks, with a mod-style haircut, is smiling and looking excited, fists clenched, taking a big step. There's a flight case labelled PROPS beside him.

Clare Pettitt gives a Keynote Lecture at ‘Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment’, 14-17 July 2026

Professor Pettitt will deliver her lecture on ‘Tennyson’s Garden: Idylls of the King and the Technologization of Nature’ on Thursday 16 July at 11.15am. ‘Tennyson 2026’ is an internati…

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Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · last mo.

Theseus: I'm used to nervous speeches, goes with the territory #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Slightly later, obviously, but here's an example of how to solve a perennial 'problem' both here & in Hamlet: where do you put the onstage audience? Harley Granville Barker at the Savoy 1914

A sepia postcard, landscape format, of a play in performance. Across the front of the stage in a shallow curve, 4 rectangular couches with lattice sides, classical style, with people sitting or reclining on them; there are other people sitting on the floor in front. At the rear of the stage there is a view of tall classical pillars; at the top of a short flight of steps in front of them, there's a play being performed.

Dr Gabriel Rolfe awarded 2026 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize

Dr Gabriel Rolfe has won the 2026 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for his proposal for a book-length essay, Interior Station, described as ‘a genre-bending account of colonial violence and…

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Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · last mo.

Philostrate: but it's a TERRIBLE play! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Two current Quinces, hopefully not hearing Philostrate being so rude about their work: Scout Worsley @the-rsc.bsky.social family show; Victoria Moseley in front of the mini tent Globe at the Globe (mise en abyme ❤️)

A photograph of a character in a play: half length, a young woman wearing a green shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a green furry gilet, and a green knitted hat; she also has round green-framed glasses, and is holding a green notebook in her right hand and gesturing with a green pencil in her left hand.

A photograph of a play in performance. A woman wearing an elaborate fur coat over trousers, checked shirt and red tie, with a hat and glasses, is standing looking a bit uncertain. Behind her is a little pop-up tent theatre made to look like Shakespeare's Globe, with a painted thatched roof and pillars; it's standing on the stage of the actual Globe.

‘Andy Burnham is about to prove the true worth of a Cambridge English degree’

Lord Chris Smith, the Chancellor of the University, writes forcefully in the Telegraph that studying English equips graduates with the human insight, empathy and critical thinking vital to facing …

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Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · last mo.

Theseus: people get confused in the dark! Hippolyta: ALL of them at once? #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Pippa Nixon as Hippolyta & Titania @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream 2011 (Jo Stone-Fewings as Theseus/Oberon; dir. Nancy Meckler). Currently a touching, live-wire Beatrice at the Globe❤️

A photograph of a play in performance. A woman wearing all black, with bare legs, sitting on a white leather sofa looking quite grumpy. A man is standing behind her in the shadows.

The same woman in the same play. She's wearing purple draperies and has flowers in her hair; she's standing next to a vertical garland of flowers, holding a bundle that might be a baby.

@christscollegecam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Professor Orietta Da Rold who was presented with her 2026 Pilkington Prize at a special event hosted by St Catharine’s College on 16 June

Links to news items which include further information about the Pilkington Prize and this year’s winners: University news item Cambridge Centre for teaching and Learning news item

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What does alumnus John Milton's Paradise have in common with Disney's Zootopia? Read the latest 'Miltonic Mill' blog by English teacher and Milton scholar Dr Anthony Bromley to find out darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton-and-u... @cam-english-fac.bsky.social

An angel appearing to two people in a wooded landscape

Cambridge English Faculty @cam-english-fac.bsky.social · 2mo ago