https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog The home of academic content Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:08:08 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/15/elements-in-victorian-literature-science-and-the-environment/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/15/elements-in-victorian-literature-science-and-the-environment/#respond <![CDATA[Dennis Denisoff and Pamela K. Gilbert]]> Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:09:25 +0000 <![CDATA[Humanities]]> <![CDATA[Literature]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=64722 <![CDATA[Many eco-scholars today have lamented our current tendency to soft denial. We acknowledge major environmental concerns such as climate change while continuing to go about our lives as if they don’t exist.…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/15/elements-in-victorian-literature-science-and-the-environment/feed/ 0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/13/revisiting-the-cinema-special-topic/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/13/revisiting-the-cinema-special-topic/#respond <![CDATA[Richard T. Rodríguez]]> Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Humanities]]> <![CDATA[Literature]]> <![CDATA[Modern Language Association]]> <![CDATA[PMLA]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=64557 <![CDATA[In the May 1991 issue of PMLA, then editor John W. Kronik begins his “Editor’s Note” by announcing that the current volume of the journal “has elicited strong responses, praise as well as reproof, even before the year is out” (393).…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/13/revisiting-the-cinema-special-topic/feed/ 0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/08/18/elements-in-race-in-american-literature-and-culture/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/08/18/elements-in-race-in-american-literature-and-culture/#respond <![CDATA[Stephanie Li]]> Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:26:09 +0000 <![CDATA[Literature]]> <![CDATA[Cambridge Elements]]> <![CDATA[Elements]]> <![CDATA[Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture]]> <![CDATA[ERAL]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=63889 <![CDATA[Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture aims to extend our understanding of the critical role race has played in shaping US literary history.…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/08/18/elements-in-race-in-american-literature-and-culture/feed/ 0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/02/03/pmla-articles-in-the-college-classroom/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/02/03/pmla-articles-in-the-college-classroom/#respond <![CDATA[Sara Kippur]]> Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Humanities]]> <![CDATA[Literature]]> <![CDATA[Modern Language Association]]> <![CDATA[PMLA]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=61652 <![CDATA[Many years ago, while still in graduate school, I was helping a group of undergraduates understand a scholarly essay about translation, when one student asked me (with all good intentions): “Why do we need to know this?”…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/02/03/pmla-articles-in-the-college-classroom/feed/ 0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/10/21/fredric-jameson-in-pmla-or-metacommentary-and-more/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/10/21/fredric-jameson-in-pmla-or-metacommentary-and-more/#respond <![CDATA[Andrew Cole]]> Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:18:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Humanities]]> <![CDATA[Literature]]> <![CDATA[MLA]]> <![CDATA[Modern Language Association]]> <![CDATA[PMLA]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=60766 <![CDATA[Our greatest thinker, Fredric Jameson, died on 22 September 2024 at the age of ninety. His example of socially meaningful interpretation—indeed, his commitment to Marxism—is fundamental, now more than ever.…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/10/21/fredric-jameson-in-pmla-or-metacommentary-and-more/feed/ 0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/03/28/sleep-no-more-and-the-discourses-of-shakespeare-performance/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/03/28/sleep-no-more-and-the-discourses-of-shakespeare-performance/#respond <![CDATA[D.J. Hopkins]]> Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:07:23 +0000 <![CDATA[Humanities]]> <![CDATA[Literature]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=57979 <![CDATA[I had already seen Sleep No More eleven times before I saw the beginning of Sleep No More. That’s not the sort of admission you’d expect from a theatre scholar who has actually written a book about a particular performance.…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/03/28/sleep-no-more-and-the-discourses-of-shakespeare-performance/feed/ 0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/03/07/visualizing-race-virtually-with-dr-david-sterling-brown/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/03/07/visualizing-race-virtually-with-dr-david-sterling-brown/#respond <![CDATA[Holly Pascoe]]> Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:45:42 +0000 <![CDATA[History]]> <![CDATA[Literature]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Theatre]]> <![CDATA[The Cambridge Festival]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=58407 <![CDATA[Dr. David Sterling Brown is an award-winning author and a tenured Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, Connecticut. His book, Shakespeare’s White Others, published by Cambridge University Press, examines the racially white ‘others’ whom Shakespeare portrays in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite ‘white enough’.…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/03/07/visualizing-race-virtually-with-dr-david-sterling-brown/feed/ 0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/03/06/unlocking-literacy-on-world-book-day/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/03/06/unlocking-literacy-on-world-book-day/#respond <![CDATA[Ankhi Mukherjee, Ato Quayson, Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, Amy Laurent, Victoria Willingale, Emma Goff-Leggett and Kristian Turner]]> Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Humanities]]> <![CDATA[Literature]]> <![CDATA[Social Sciences]]> <![CDATA[Social Studies]]> <![CDATA[social studies]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=58382 <![CDATA[Frederick Douglass said: “Once you learn to read you will be free.” On this World Book Day (7 March, 2024) Cambridge hopes to help spark that enquiry.…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/03/06/unlocking-literacy-on-world-book-day/feed/ 0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/01/03/mariama-bas-memories-of-lagos/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/01/03/mariama-bas-memories-of-lagos/#respond <![CDATA[Tobias Warner]]> Wed, 03 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Humanities]]> <![CDATA[Literature]]> <![CDATA[MLA]]> <![CDATA[Modern Language Association]]> <![CDATA[PMLA]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=57232 <![CDATA[The appearance of a new text by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ is cause for celebration. And appropriately enough, “Festac .…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/01/03/mariama-bas-memories-of-lagos/feed/ 0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2023/12/20/importance-of-open-access-publishing-arts-humanities/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2023/12/20/importance-of-open-access-publishing-arts-humanities/#comments <![CDATA[Claire Brock]]> Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:31:32 +0000 <![CDATA[Archaeology]]> <![CDATA[Area Studies]]> <![CDATA[Classics]]> <![CDATA[Discover Cambridge]]> <![CDATA[History]]> <![CDATA[Humanities]]> <![CDATA[Literature]]> <![CDATA[Music & Drama]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Open Research]]> <![CDATA[Philosophy]]> <![CDATA[Religious Studies]]> <![CDATA[Theatre]]> <![CDATA[Open Access]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/?p=57283 <![CDATA[Between 2012 and 2014, I held a two-year Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (WT096499AIA) for a project on women surgeons in Britain, 1860-1918.…]]> https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2023/12/20/importance-of-open-access-publishing-arts-humanities/feed/ 1