The Early Career Forum in the Faculty of English is a dedicated space for those early in their careers, including research fellows, fixed-term researchers & departmental lecturers across the faculty and colleges, to meet each other, discuss career steps and goals, and share work-in-progress in a supportive and engaged atmosphere.
Dr. Hannah Ryley co-edited a special issue of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, on 'Big Data and Manuscript Studies'. The issue was co-edited by Dr Hannah Ryley and by Dr JR Mattison, and features two members of the Oxford English Faculty, Prof Daniel Wakelin and Dr Daniel Sawyer.
Dr Felicity Brown has published an article, ‘The Bard Bounded: Miniature Shakespearean Books’, Inscription the Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History, 5 (2025)
Dr Felicity Brown has published a chapter: ‘George Gascoigne’s Proliferative Poetics’, in Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court ed. Emma Rhatigan and Jackie Watson (Palgrave, 2025), 203-218.
Job news
In Autumn 2025, Dr Felicity Brown, Lecturer in English, Balliol College, Somerville College, Wadham College, will begin a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at University of Sheffield: 'Authoring Professions in Early Modern England'.
In Autumn 2025, Dr Chloe Fairbanks, Lecturer in English, 1550-1760, Keble College, will begin a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Coventry University: 'Stranger Companies: Transcultural Encounters in English Writing, 1558-1625'.
Dr Ethan Plaue, Postdoctoral Fellow in American Literature, will begin a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in Autumn 2025.
