Welcome

We're absolutely delighted to welcome Stephen Fry to the English Faculty as this year's Visiting Professor of Creative Media!

Prof Teju Cole will be giving four lectures on the subject of UNDERSTATEMENT from 29 October to 7 November for this year's Clarendon Lecture series. All welcome.

Professor Kathryn Schwarz is delivering this year's Oxford Wells Lectures on the subject of 'Mortal Shakespeare: Death, Debt, Love, Plague' on 12, 14, 19 & 21 November. All welcome!

This year's Black History Month, we'll be sharing research from our young scholars, as well as more book recommendations from our staff and students.

Join us for the next Professor of Poetry lecture by A.E Stallings on 'Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes'. All welcome!

Congratulations to Professor Nandini Das whose book 'Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire' has been shortlisted for the prestigious Wolfson History Prize 2024. 

We’re delighted to see that the University of Oxford has taken the top spot for English in the Guardian University Guide 2025. 

We asked our English undergrads some very important quickfire questions, including what their favourite book is, which author they'd like to have dinner with, and their best (and worst!) book to film adaptations. Find out how they answered!