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Professor Simon Gikandi, Princeton, will give the Clarendon Lectures at 5:30 pm on the 28 October, 30 October, 4 November and 6 November on the topic of 'English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline'. All are welcome; no booking is required.

The next Professor of Poetry lecture will take place on 26 November at 5.30pm at Examination Schools, Oxford. The title of the talk is: 'Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy'. This is a public lecture and everyone is welcome.

Join the author of “Bridget Jones’s Diary” for a live podcast recording with Always Take Notes. All welcome! 

Michael J Sullivan features in a video introducing the Recovery of Literary Manuscripts project, which is developing new digital techniques to recover lost lines of literature.

The Schwarzman Centre will bring together Oxford University's Humanities faculties for the first time, alongside a new Bodleian Humanities Library & state-of-the-art teaching & performance facilities. 

We're delighted to see Oxford University take the top spot for English in the Guardian University Guide 2026.

In this free webinar series, Shakespeare expert Professor Emma Smith will be discussing a different Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare title each month. 

Professor Devyani Sharma has been appointed to the Professorship of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, a post endowed by News UK. She will take up this post on 1 October 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!