LGBT+ research and resources

‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ was an online symposium which took place in December 2023. In this article, the organisers introduce the principles of queer ecology and explore the ‘wonderfully queer world of lichens’ in a series of drawing games. 

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

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. 

What’s queer about close reading? This article by DPhil candidate Rowena Gutsell explores how close reading might be used to approach questions of identity, relationality & feeling

Read an interview with English alum Chesca Forristal, stage & screen writer and drag king. The interview was conducted as part of Telling Our Stories Better which aims to challenge misconceptions about who studies English & the career paths they take.

Harriet Smith-Hughes' research looks at the function of 'I's & 'we's in late-20th & early-21st century critical nonfiction. In this post, she looks at two moments in which Eve Sedgwick's 'I' appears to performatively write a queer collective into being 

Explore this cross-collections LGBTQ+ museum trail, which includes fragments of Sappho, housed at the Weston Library

Listen to this podcast by Professor Emma Smith on Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s ‘The Roaring Girl’, a Jacobean play with a famously fluid interpretation of sexuality.