English Faculty Library
Sorting books and knowing things. Library supporting the teaching and research for the @cam-english-fac.bsky.social.
Working under @theul.bsky.social.
See more at: linktr.ee/eflcam
Term Hours:
Mon-Fri: 9.15am to 7pm
Sat: 11am-5pm
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryDominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga's filmmaking [caption id="attachment_10217" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Nyerai Films 2002[/caption] Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has...
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- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryJoin our lunchtime Research Practice Seminars ✏️ Thursdays from 12 - 2pm in the CRASSH meeting room Lead by a member of CRASSH, they allow us to explore some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice All welcome! bit.ly/3LYjCFL
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryCongratulations to Karen Solie on winning the TS Eliot Prize for her most recent collection Wellwater, published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social Karen Solie teaches for half the year at St Andrews University and lives the rest of her time in Canada. Karen is part of @northseapoets.bsky.social group.
- Did you know that the EFL subscribes to the LRB and you can read the most recent copies in the library? Find it (along with other literary acronyms) on the new books stand every week!
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- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryMini-article out now Open Access in Notes & Queries – take a look for my theory of what Wulfstan II means by ‘injustice in the north’ (spoiler: Vikings and weird legal stuff in the Danelaw) doi.org/10.1093/note... #Medievalsky #Medievalists
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryComing soon! "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd ANNNNND it will be open access!
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an award winning poet, translator and professor @tcddublin.bsky.social, who served as the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019. Find her works in @theul.bsky.social libraries across Cambridge via idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. What is her advice for young poets? 🧵⬇️
- We are delighted that the first Southword Poetry Podcast of 2026 is out now with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and is available to listen to on our website - southword.buzzsprout.com/share #podcast
- 'Read and keep reading, from every period; read in translation, translate yourself if you can, keep asking yourself ‘what does poetry do’? And never say more than you mean. And definitely never live with anyone who thinks it is your hobby.[..] 🧵⬇️
- Spend time with real poets, though you will find that some of them too are obsessed by prizes and reputations – their presence is the only thing that will remind you that what you are doing is real.[...] 🧵⬇️
- At the core of every poet is an immense arrogance and ego: this is a beast you have to feed even if your character is quite retiring and polite, because the poems won’t come if you starve him.' Read more of her interview with the Forward Arts Foundation: forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversat...
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryHello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! Sharing again for morning Bluesky!
- Reposted by English Faculty Library📝 The Research Skills Training Programme from University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives is open for bookings! 👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students. 🔎Learn more and book: loom.ly/RjU6dj4
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- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryToday (12th January) marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Dame Agatha Christie; mystery writer, playwright, plotting genius, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple AND THE BESTSELLING NOVELIST OF ALL TIME. If you've never read her, the time is now. #ReadChristie2026
- Edward George's 'Black Atlas' exhibit is open at the Warburg Institute (London) until 31 January!
- ⏯️GOOD NEWS! New linguistics mnemonic just dropped. 🎤✒️👂🕶️
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- Reposted by English Faculty Library'Our Ukrainian Robert Burns' Tues 27 Jan. 6.30pm FREE Hanna Dyka talks about translating Robert Burns into Ukrainian and latest bilingual publication of Ukrainian translations of Burns’ poems. Also features recitals of Burns' poetry in Ukrainian and Scots. www.ticketsource.co.uk/edinburgh-ce...
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryIn advance of this year's T. S. Eliot Prize readings on 18 January I was invited to write a short piece about my experience when A Change in the Air @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social was shortlisted for the 2023 prize.
- The EFL awoke from our long winter nap to a new year, and new #SlowShakespeare from Cam English's own brilliant Hester Lees-Jeffries! Follow along daily with #MoodMad as @starcrossed2018.bsky.social critically interprets Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and scenes through the years. 🌕🧚🥀🎭
- Theseus: we're getting married! soon but not soon enough! Hippolyta: *thrilled* #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... The (London transfer) poster for the great 1970 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Peter Brook. It changed theatre; my parents saw it & we had the poster...
- The EFL staff counting the sleeps till #MoonMad....✨😴🕯️🌕 #SlowShakespeare
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryAre you an early career researcher in the arts & humanities with bold ideas? Apply for the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and join a world-class research community. · Develop your vision · Access tailored support · Shape the future of your field Apply: ow.ly/jxqz50XIkpu
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryVacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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- Reposted by English Faculty Library🚨 CfP 🚨 We are delighted to announce our Lent term call for papers, deadline 13 January 2026! This term we are accepting work on any theme - we look very forward to receiving your abstracts!
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryDeadline is just two weeks away! But DM them now if you're looking for a panel.
- The conference is on in Loughborough, on the 1st to 4th of July 2026! Message us ASAP if you’re interested in joining our panel! @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
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- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryPoem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 11 is 'When Nobody Was Watching' from 'What Remains the Same' by Alvy Carragher 💖 @thegallerypress.bsky.social
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWe are thrilled to share our Lent CFP! Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!
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- ❄️☃️The EFL will close our doors at 5pm on Friday 19 December, and reopen at 9.30am on Monday 5 January for staff winter leave. ☃️❄️ Try not to miss us too much while we're gone 😉📖📚✒️🫖
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWrite an essay to win £500 📝 Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize. This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members. Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025 Find out more: loom.ly/xZZOdOc
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryMedieval historian Dr Krisztina Ilko (@queens.cam.ac.uk) challenges major assumptions about the medieval Catholic Church and early Renaissance. Forgotten medieval miracles are brought to light in her new book 'The Sons of St Augustine', published today by Oxford University Press ⬇️⬇️
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- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryPhilosophical Logic has joined the OLH! Read their open letter on mass editorial resignation and the push to make academic research “as accessible as possible to both the academic community and society at large”.
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryCalling all creative writers, both published and unpublished. First prize is £1500, including publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology. Enter your short story of up to 4000 words until 31 Jan 2026, with low income entries available on a limited basis every month.
- We’re open for submissions! Closing date 31st January. Visit our website to read our submission rules, register your entry, and check out our amazing judges: bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/rules/
- Reposted by English Faculty Library📣 #CfP Reminder 📣 Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence? 📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇 ⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025 📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies
- Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern
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- Reposted by English Faculty Library'No, we should not curse the winter - and December least of all.'
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- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWhat will enter the #publicdomain in 2026? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-t… (+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
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- Have weird feelings about the racism in Wuthering Heights, and/or its erasure in adaptations? A 🧵by @romgothsam.bsky.social 👀📖🍿
- When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
- Elizabeth Gaskell diaries, short stories, novels, photographs, critical texts, and more (!) available at E 64 GAS in your friendly, neighbourhood EFL. 📖📚✒️
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- Who LIKES #18thC #BookHistory, they cannot lie? 👀📖 (though pamphlet-lovers might deny...) FREE online book launch of the latest from @universitypress.cambridge.org 'People of Print' series. (➕) Early Career Workshop to practice pitching your own excellent book! A bargain at twice the price.
- Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history! The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
- Reposted by English Faculty Library'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryTake a step back in time to discover the histories of alchemy, death, language, and fantastical beasts in this term’s new exhibition titled “St Hugh’s Library of Curiosities”, on display until Hilary 2026. Image from “The History of Great Britaine”, RBS KK5 (SPE)
- Reposted by English Faculty LibrarySomething for the early modernists!
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWe are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
- 👋Oh hello #OpenAcess. What a delight for #MedievalSky, Cambridge English students, and other medieval mystic enthusiasts.✒️🕯️📖 (Or the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Medieval & Renaissance Women Digitisation Project - currently moving websites!) #EarlyModern #MedievalWomen #EverydayImCodexing
- Really pleased that my latest article is out in New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession. "On Frustration: Reading The Book of Margery Kempe in the Classroom" thinks (with Adam Phillips and others) about readerly frustration and what it might teach us. Avail open access! doi.org/10.5070/NC3....
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWhat happens when AI fails to see hate? Join us at Trinity College, Cambridge on 6 November to find out. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-f...
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