- Source: Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
The Faculty of English is a constituent part of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1914 as a Tripos within the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. It could be studied only as a 'Part I' of a degree course, alongside a 'Part II' either in medieval languages or from another Tripos. In 1926, the course became a distinct Faculty.
The undergraduate degree course of 'Cambridge English', as well as the Faculty as a whole, is known for its distinctive focus on close reading (called Practical criticism), first championed by I. A. Richards and then later by William Empson and F. R. Leavis. Since the course was founded in 1926, Practical Criticism, Tragedy and Shakespeare have been mandatory parts of the course; the English Moralists paper (now renamed the Ethical Imagination) has also remained as an optional paper.
In the present day, its research focus is wide ranging: from Old English literature through to contemporary, and also associated themes such as digital humanities and the history of the book. One of its sub-divisions is the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, the only department in the world dedicated to the Early Middle Ages.
Notable staff
The faculty's senior teaching posts include a number of named professorships:
Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon (currently Rosalind Love)
King Edward VII Professor of English Literature (currently Clair Wills)
Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English (Cambridge) (1954) (currently Nicolette Zeeman)
English (2001) Professor (currently Jennifer Richards)
Grace 2 Professor (currently Claire Pettitt)
Other notable current academics:
Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies
John Kerrigan, Professor of English
Robert Macfarlane, Reader in Literature and the Geohumanities
People associated with the Faculty
= Academics and public intellectuals
=Marshall McLuhan
Arthur Quiller-Couch, the first holder of the King Edward VII Professorship
F. R. Leavis
C. S. Lewis
M. C. Bradbrook
Raymond Williams
E. M. W. Tillyard
Terry Eagleton
Germaine Greer
Eric Griffiths (critic)
= Writers
=J. B. Priestley
J. H. Prynne
Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Sylvia Plath
Ted Hughes
Zadie Smith
Peter Ackroyd
Douglas Adams
Howard Brenton
Martin Crimp
Emma Donoghue
Margaret Drabble
Sebastian Faulks
Julian Fellowes
Jez Butterworth
= Actors
=Sophie Winkleman
Ian McKellen
Miriam Margolyes
= Politicians
=Richard Burgon
Andy Burnham
References
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Monsters University (2013)
Blade (1998)
The Count of Monte-Cristo (2024)
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