Puck: I enchanted the ordinary working man (with thespian aspirations)! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Puck (Sergo Vares, particularly sinister) with Titania (Hedydd Dylan) asleep in her 'bower' (on top of the piano) in Headlong's wintry production in the Wanamaker, winter 2025-6.

In the latest Miltonic Mill blog, Pasquale Toscano reflects on disability in Sonnet 19 by alumnus #JohnMilton darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton-blog #Milton350 #UniversityOfCambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Disability @cam-english-fac.bsky.social

Bottom: are they making an ASS of me?🫏🤔 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Brilliant, adorable Hammed Animashaun as Bottom in the 2019 @bridgetheatre.bsky.social Dream, dir. Nick Hytner. This production swapped Oberon & Titania, so that it was Oberon who fell for Bottom❤️

Would you like to run your own Research Network at CRASSH? Applications are now open for Networks in 2026-27 You will receive funding of up to £2,000 per academic year, plus logistical assistance and a platform for events ➡️ The deadline for applications is 5 May 2026 https://bit.ly/3BknsiZ

The spectacular film adaptation of my book Underland is in cinemas as of Friday. More details at: www.underlandfilm.com Working on more screenings in Scotland, Wales & NI.

Our new exhibition, Living Water, invites you to dive into the world of artist Barrie Cooke. Explore his remarkable creative friendship with poets Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes through letters, poetry and art. 🎟️ FREE! 📍The UL & Pembroke College 🔎 Find out more: https://loom.ly/48X86bY

Bottom: 🎶🎶🎶Titania: it's the voice of an ANGEL! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Under that ass's head is the uniquely brilliant Pearce Quigley, with Michelle Terry as Titania at the Globe in 2013. Note hooves; his deadpan clog dance at the end was astonishing.

We're delighted to rank number 1 in the world for Archaeology and English Language & Literature in the 2026 QS World University Subject Rankings! 🎉 Read the full story 👉 https://bit.ly/4d8qk7o @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cam-english-fac.bsky.social #SubjectRankings #QSWUR #UniRankings

Professor Anthony Bale's 'A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages' is translated into Serbian and Hebrew [caption id="attachment_10386" align="alignright" width="195"] Image credit: cover of the Serbian translation of 'A Travel Guide to the Middle...

Dr Louis Klee wins the University English 2025 Book Prize for 'The Constellational Novel' [caption id="attachment_9805" align="alignright" width="199"] Image credit: 'The Constellational Novel, by Dr Louis Klee, Published by Oxford...

Cambridge English Faculty ranked 1st in the world for the study of English We are delighted that the English Faculty has been recognised as world-leading for the study of Anglophone Literature in the latest QS rankings. It is testimony to...

Listen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on the dignity we owe to the dead — broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s 'Thought... Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n88xqj And Spotify:...

Prof. Michael Hurley @TrinCollCam speaking on John Henry Newman in Oxford on 29 March Professor Hurley will give a paper on “Newman’s Sources of the Self” at a panel “drawing new maps of hope” to navigate the current challenges of our...

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge: Fully-funded 4-year AHRC PhD studentship [caption id="attachment_10336" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit:...

Congratulations to Professor Orietta Da Rold who has won a prestigious @cam.ac.uk Pilkington Prize for outstanding teaching [caption id="attachment_10328" align="alignright" width="180"] Image credit: photograph of Professor Orietta Da...

Congratulations, Matt! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/b...

Support the development of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest through this extraordinary PhD placement opportunity. Available to students currently registered at a UK HEI, three full-time, six-month placements. Applications open until Monday 6 April. Find out more: link.bl.uk/dnv

Last lecture/seminar for 'Material Renaissance' paper today; lecture feat. (inter alia) Sidney's funeral, Webster's 'Monumental Columne', rosemary, my PhD hood, & 'An Arundel Tomb'; in the seminar, passed around these notes of 'my wife's buriall' Jan. 1650, which was when, I guess, he pinned them...

VERY EXCITING news about new film based on 'Underland' by Prof @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social from @cam-english-fac.bsky.social !!! 🎬🎞️🍿

What does Milton's paradise smell like? Sophie Read follows the scent of a soothing substance "somewhere between medicine and magic" through the universe of 'Paradise Lost' in a new blog on the #DarknessVisible website darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/balmy-milton @cam-english-fac.bsky.social

Discover Faculty of English events at the Cambridge Festival, 16 March-2 April 2026 Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English, served as gender-diversity consultant to the Cambridge Festival this...

Demetrius: go AWAY! I HATE you this is STUPID where is HERMIA? #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Lou Jackson as a particularly sulky, sinister Demetrius in the Headlong Dream, dir. Holly Race Roughan, which played in the Wanamaker winter 2025-6

There are worse ways to spend an afternoon than in object handing sessions in the Fitzwilliam Museum with third year @cam-english-fac.bsky.social students taking the 'Material Renaissance' paper. They asked me which was my favourite and, well, the Hilliards (!) are special but the rapier is COOL.

Dr Zoë Svendsen - keynote speaker at Theatre Conference JAMU 2026, Czech Republic [caption id="attachment_10311" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: https://www.theatreconferencejamu.cz/en[/caption] Zoë Svendsen and Roman Senkl...

'Catastrophe Inventions, Endless Abandon', 7pm, Wednesday 11th March, Cambridge (Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio) This improvised evening session will be centred on the idea of “catastrophe”. Open to the public, featuring readings of both...

Lloyd Meadhbh Houston performs at 'Front & Centre: International Women's Day Playwriting Festival', Derry, 6-8 March [caption id="attachment_10284" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Front & Centre: International Women's Day...

Prof Sarah Dillon on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week On Monday 2nd March, Professor Sarah Dillon will join presenter Tom Sutcliffe on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week to discuss “why we should read”. She joins alongside fellow...

Dr Amy Gaeta and Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston speak at the Neurodivergent Humanities Network's symposium, March 2026 [caption id="attachment_10272" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: 'Neurodiversity is More Than...', a symposium...

Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston and Dr Amy Gaeta co-author a piece in the latest 'Lip Service' [caption id="attachment_10262" align="alignright" width="212"] Image credit: 'Disability & Sex', Lip Service - Issue 4, Vagina Museum, January...

Jade Cuttle explores Vaughan Williams’ fenland legacy on BBC Radio 3 Jade Cuttle, a PhD student at the Faculty, recently appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Feature. In the programme, she retraced the fenland journeys of composer Ralph...

Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston publishes a chapter in 'The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature' (LUP, 2026) [caption id="attachment_10253" align="alignright" width="198"] Image credit: 'The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature', Edited by Christopher...

Did Valentine's Day pass and you still aren't sure if you are doing this romance thing right?🤔 Yeah, we don't know either. But every day is a good day to find an ebook you love. Click the link below to explore some of the things random items we ❤️love❤️ in our collection. tinyurl.com/3ft9t2am

Titania: everything is damp, damp to the very bones🌧️ #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Titania (Michelle Terry) & Oberon (John Light) in a particularly beautiful Globe Dream in 2013, dir. Dominic Dromgoole. (Feat. brilliant Pearce Quigley as Bottom. More of that anon.)

Listen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on what Aldous Huxley can teach us about Mind Control — broadcast on BBC Radio... Listen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on what Aldous Huxley can teach us about Mind Control — broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s...

Prof Sarah Dillon speaker at LSE Narratives in Policy-making event On Tuesday 17th February, Sarah Dillon will join other panelists for a discussion of narratives in policy-making, at the London School of Economics. The event marks the...

Oberon: COW! Titania: BASTARD! CHEATING BASTARD! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Oberon (Nicholas Jones) and Titania (Josette Simon) meet - clash - in the 1999 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Michael Boyd des. Tom Piper

Puck: I am NAUGHTY, I say BUM! look out fairy, here comes Oberon #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Richard McCabe as a punky Puck (school tie, tutu, pointy ears, fairy wings) in the 1989 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. John Caird

Ekaterina Zadirko talks with @drallylouks.bsky.social about diaries revealing love, heartbreak, and everyday life under Stalin – hopes and anxieties that may feel surprisingly familiar. Watch the full video via the link below👇 https://youtu.be/vTwsuBC1mCw #Cambridge #History #ValentinesDay #Learn

Amateur dramatics in the forest! time to learn lines... #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... In the 2016 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream dir. Erica Whyman the 'mechanicals' were played by amateur groups from around the UK. David Mears, here as Bottom, was from The Bear Pit in Stratford.

Bottom: but what BEARD for Pyramus? 🧔🧔‍♂️Quince: ??!! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Part of the joke is that, if Will Kempe (R) is playing Bottom, he already has a beard... This is still often the case: here's Kevin Kline in the 1999 film.

Ross Wilson gives a public lecture at Concordia University, Montreal, 17th February [caption id="attachment_10224" align="alignright" width="275"] Image credit: Paul Klee, Affected Place (1922). Zentrum Paul Klee,...

Dominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga's filmmaking [caption id="attachment_10217" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Nyerai Films 2002[/caption] Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has...

Snug can ROAR extempore! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Snug (Laurie Jamieson) & Quince (Helen Monks) 2024 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream dir. Eleanor Rhode 📸Pamela Raith & the Brook Dream 1972, actors uncredited (not sure if casting had changed?): Bottom (L) teaches Snug how to ROAR.