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Literature Cambridge
Alumni can enjoy a discount 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

Women Writers Season 2025
Great women writers from Mary Shelley to Elizabeth Bowen: Join us for unique seasons of lectures and seminars on some brilliant women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries - Live Online. Find out more here.
January to December 2025, with a break over summer.

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
2025
- Oscar Wilde course, March-May 2025
- Close Reading the Poetry of Coleridge, April 2025
- Comedy and Irony in the Young Jane Austen course, May 2025
- Katherine Mansfield: Stories of Life and Death, May-June 2025
- Close Reading Mary Oliver, June 2025
- Close Reading the Poetry of Tennyson, June 2025
- Woolf in August: some popular Woolf lectures repeated, August 2025
- Close Reading the Poetry of Shelley, September 2025
- Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny course 2025 September-October 2025
- London in Literature I: 1778-1948, September-November 2025
- Women and Power in 20thC Fiction: 1950s-1980s with Miles Leeson, September-November 2025
- Close Reading the Poetry of Keats with Mariah Whelan, November 2025
- George Orwell: Power, Freedom, Decency, November-December 2025
- Elizabeth von Arnim: Women, Men and Dogs course, October-December 2025
Alumni can enjoy a discount for all courses