We're delighted to announce that two members of the English Faculty have received the title of full Professor in the Recognition of Distinction Awards at Oxford University: David Taylor (Professor of English) and Stuart Lee (Professor of English Literature).
Professor David Taylor joined the Faculty, and St. Hugh's College, in 2018, having previously taught at the University of Toronto and University of Warwick. He read English at St. Andrews before completing his masters and PhD at Cambridge. He's published two monographs – Theatre of Opposition (2012) and The Politics of Parody (2018) – as well as co-editing The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre (2014). His edition of the Dramatic Works of Joseph Addison is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Professor Stuart Lee joined Oxford in 1991 working in the field of digital humanities as it began to emerge as a discipline. His PhD was in Old English which he has published on, and he created the first OE course for Continuing Education in the University through the 1990s and then lectured and tutored on it for the Faculty. Meanwhile his work in digital humanities grew and he led a series of computer-based projects based around the poetry of the World War One culminating in the First World War Poetry Digital Archive. This led to an interest in crowd-sourcing of potential research material. He was made the University’s Reader in eLearning and Digital Libraries in 2008. Over the past 20 years he has lectured and published also on Tolkien and Fantasy Literature. He has worked closely with Professor Carolyne Larrington on building up the network around Fantasy Lit running a series of summer schools. He is currently working on Tolkien’s manuscripts, looking at the response by fantasy writers to their experiences in WW1, and a crowd-sourcing project around WW2 (‘Their Finest Hour’).