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Literature Cambridge
Alumni can enjoy the discount student price for all courses
Most courses are currently live online via Zoom and you can join in from anywhere in the world.
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Virginia Woolf Season
Woolf and Politics: Join us for unique seasons of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf. Find out more here
September 2024 to June 2025
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Summer Courses 2024
Literature Cambridge offers intensive, five-day summer courses with leading scholars. In 2024, the theme is Virginia Woolf and Childhood. The course will run twice: first live online, the second time in person in Cambridge.
Virginia Woolf and Childhood, live online course, 8-12 July 2024. Learn more.
Virginia Woolf and Childhood, in-person course in Cambridge, 4-9 August 2024. Bookings are open.
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Other courses
- Close Reading the Poetry of Mary Oliver, with Mariah Whelan. August 2024. Bookings are open
- Live online lecture: Jane Eyre, with Clare Walker Gore, 7 Sept. 2024. Bookings are open
- London in Literature, with Angela Harris, September-October 2024. Bookings are open
- The Contemporary Novel, with Joseph Steinberg, October-December 2024. Bookings are open
- Close Reading the Poetry of William Wordsworth, with Mariah Whelan, October 2024. Bookings are open
- Close Reading the Poetry of Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, Nov-Dec. 2024. Bookings are open
- Passion and Violence in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy, with Fred Parker and Jan Parker. January-February 2025. Bookings are ope
- Iris Murdoch and Art course, March-May 2025. Bookings are open
- Oscar Wilde course, March-May 2025. Bookings are open
Alumni can enjoy the discount student price for all courses.