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
Ali Smith Study Day in Cambridge, 13th December 2026
Join us in person in Cambridge for an intensive study afternoon with two lectures and a seminar over 3 hours, led by Alex Calder, University of Cambridge.
Other courses - Live online
2026
Virginia Woolf Season, September 2025 to June 2026
Odysseus the Storyteller: Trials and Return with Jan Parker, May 2026
Iris Murdoch: Poems from an Attic lecture with Miles Leeson, 31 May 2026
Toni Morrison Course, May-June 2026
Close Reading Seamus Heaney, June 2026
Lecture for Peace: HD, Bid Me to Live and the First World War with Trudi Tate, 7 June 2026
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
Close Reading Emily Dickinson Course 2, 8 and 15 November 2026
Close Reading Poems about Birds, 29 November and 6 December 2026
2027
- Anton Chekhov Course: Stories and Plays, 7-28 January 2027
- Iris Murdoch and Marriage, January-March 2027
Alumni can enjoy a discount for all courses
