Literature Cambridge

Literature Cambridge

  • Woolf Summer lecture - attendees in Newnham Dining Hall
  • Row of Cambridge students at Crag talk
  • Two ladies at the Botanic Garden tour
  • 2019 Summer Course - whole class
  • Supervisions at Summer Course 2019
  • Tall pot and flowers at Botanic Gardens
  • Example of online study course
  • Group Zoom shot
  • Literature Cambridge Lecture and Audience
  • Lecturer Ann Kennedy Smith in Newnham College

Photos by Jeremy Peters and Seb Peters

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.

Virginia Woolf

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

Vanessa Bell - Children in the sunlit garden

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.

Doris Lessing young typing

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.

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