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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.
Virginia Woolf Season
Woolf and Politics: Join us for unique seasons of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf - Live Online. Find out more here
September 2024 to June 2025
Summer Courses 2025
Literature Cambridge offers intensive, five-day summer courses with leading scholars. In 2025, the theme is Virginia Woolf: Writing Life. The course will run twice: first live online, the second time in person in Cambridge.
Virginia Woolf: Writing Life, live online course, 1—14 July 2025 - Learn more here
Virginia Woolf: Writing Life, in-person course in Cambridge, 20-25 July 2025 - Learn more here
Other courses - Live online
- Close Reading the Poetry of Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, Nov-Dec. 2024. Bookings are open
- Close Reading Irish Poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, 15 and 22 December 2024. Bookings are open
2025
- Passion and Violence in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy, with Fred Parker and Jan Parker. January-February 2025. Bookings are open
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Close Reading Anne Sexton, January 2025. Bookings are open
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Close Reading Sylvia Plath, February 2025. Bookings are open
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Bloomsbury: Art and Politics, February-March 2025. Bookings are open
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Iris Murdoch and Art course, March-May 2025. Bookings are open
- Oscar Wilde course, March-May 2025. Bookings are open
- Comedy and Irony in the Young Jane Austen course, May 2025. Bookings are open
- Katherine Mansfield: Stories of Life and Death, May-June 2025. Bookings are open
- Close Reading Mary Oliver, June 2025. Bookings are open
- Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny course 2025 September-October 2025. Bookings are open
- London in Literature 2: 1950s to the Present, September-November 2025. Bookings are open
- George Orwell: Power, Freedom, Decency, November-December 2025. Bookings are open
- Elizabeth von Arnim: Women, Men and Dogs course, October-December 2025. Bookings are open
Alumni can enjoy the discount student price for all courses.