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Literature Cambridge
Alumni can enjoy a discount price for all courses
Literature Cambridge provides top-quality literature courses in Cambridge taught by University academics.
Most courses are currently live online via Zoom and you can join in from anywhere in the world.
Virginia Woolf's Rooms
Virginia Woolf's Rooms: Join us for a unique season of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf. Live online. Find out more.
September 2025 to June 2026
Summer Courses 2026
Literature Cambridge offers intensive, five-day summer courses with leading scholars. In 2026, the theme is Virginia Woolf and the Natural World. The course will run twice: first live online, 9-13 July, the second time in person in Cambridge, 2-7 August.
- For further information on the live online summer course - https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw2026
- For further information on the summer course in Cambridge - https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-2026
Other courses - Live online
2026
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Virginia Woolf Season, September 2025 to June 2026
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Close Reading Walt Whitman, February 2026
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Lecture for Peace: Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet? with Alison Hennegan, 7 March 2026
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Iris Murdoch and the Natural World Course, March–May 2026
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Katherine Mansfield Course: Stories of Love, March-April 2026
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Close Reading Terrance Hayes, April 2026
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Jane Austen’s Families Course, April-May 2026
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Odysseus the Storyteller: Trials and Return with Jan Parker, May 2026
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Iris Murdoch: Poems from an Attic lecture with Miles Leeson, 31 May 2026
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Toni Morrison Course, May-June 2026
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Close Reading Seamus Heaney, June 2026
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Lecture for Peace: HD, Bid Me to Live and the First World War with Trudi Tate, 7 June 2026
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Close Reading Shelley Course 2, September 2026
- Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny Course, September-October 2026
- Visions of Venice Course with Miles Leeson, September-November 2026
- Introduction to Milton’s Paradise Lost with Fred Parker, 10 and 17 October 2026
- Lecture for Peace: Poetry of the Irish Peace Process with Mariah Whelan, 11 October 2026
- Four Queens of Detective Fiction Course with Alison Hennegan, October-December 2026
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Anton Chekhov Course: Stories and Plays, 5-26 November 2026
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Close Reading Emily Dickinson Course 2, 8 and 15 November 2026
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Close Reading Poems about Birds, 29 November and 6 December 2026
Alumni can enjoy a discount for all courses
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