June is Pride month – a wonderful opportunity to share research and resources on LGBTQIA+ writers and cultures. As a Faculty, we want to be a place where all our members feel included, and where we both support and celebrate the diversity of the people who work and study here.
This page examines how Kay's poetry engages with issues of racial and sexual identity, secrecy and love. Photo credit: Jackie Kay, 2016 (Photo: First Minister of Scotland, CC BY-NC 2.0)
Explore this ‘Great Writers Inspire’ page to find a plethora of resources on the influential literary figure and Magdalen College alumnus, Oscar Wilde, including a lecture by Dr Sos Eltis on his sexuality.
Adapting Andromeda: A pre-show roundtable discussion
Watch this talk on the recent queer adaptation of Euripides’ Andromeda by Dr Hannah Greenstreet – awarded her DPhil from Oxford in 2021 – which was workshopped with Oxford’s Classics and English faculties.
Looking to the realm of queer theory, this article by DPhil candidate Rowena Gutsell explores how close reading might be used to approach questions of identity, relationality and feeling—three domains traditionally excluded from ‘formalist’ approaches to literary criticism.
In this post, Harriet Smith-Hughes looks at two moments in which Eve Sedgwick's mid-career 'I' appears to performatively write a queer collective into being, thereby gathering a collective critical authority around her 'powerful' first person singular.
Reflections on Queer Modernism(s) III: Queer Networks Conference
Read Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz’s reflections on Oxford’s ‘Queer Modernism(s) III Conference’ in 2019: an event that pluralised modernism through a ‘queer prism’ and tackled issues of identity and aesthetics.
From Athena on the Parthenon Marbles to contemporary Drag Kings, Emma Smith explores the long history of cross-dressing in the arts - both male-to-female and female-to-male.
