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• Watch the trailer for 'Macbeth, Macbeth' by Ewan Fernie and Simon Palfrey
• Former Professor of Poetry Sir Geoffrey Hill dies
• Dr Michael Mayo
• Call for Papers – After Chichele: Intellectual and Cultural Dynamics of the English Church, 1443 to 1517
• Indian Arrivals 1870-1915 wins the ESSE 2016 Book Prize for Literature in English
• Oxford Wells Lecture 2: Shakespeare's Originality – Afoot
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• Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction
• The Long, Long Life of Trees
• Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire
• Professor Laura Ashe
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• Clarendon Lecture 3: Gods and Beggars
• Professor Erica McAlpine
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• English Faculty Open Day for prospective students
• Dr Lynn Robson
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• Dr Daniel Thomas
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• Professor Bart van Es
• Dr Laura Varnam
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• Dr Carly Watson
• Edmund Weiner
• Professor Philip West
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• Professor Abigail Williams
• Professor Mark Williams
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• Professor Henry Woudhuysen
• Dr Daniel Sawyer
• Dr Adam Guy
• Professor Lorna Hutson
• Professor of Poetry Lecture - Professor Simon Armitage: 'Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld'
• Professor of Poetry
• Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill lectures
• Oxford Wells Lecture series
• Clarendon Lectures
• Visiting Professor of Creative Media
• Professor David Bradshaw
• The Holinshed Project Texts
• Professor Jane Stevenson
• Alan Hollinghurst: Writing under the Influence
• Dr Kate Kennedy
• Deprofessionalization
• The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe
• Major grant awarded to Zooniverse
• Clarendon Lecture 4: The Poet and the Knife-grinder
• Clarendon Lecture 2: Proust’s enchantment: the cris de Paris
• Clarendon Lecture 1: The Enrag’d Musician, and other Street Scenes
• Winners of the Marilyn Butler Dissertation Prize announced
• Professor Gareth Lloyd Evans
• O'Donnell Lectures
• New English Faculty Foyer unveiled
• Calling all budding poets – Christopher Tower Poetry Competition
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• The Last of the Light: About Twilight
• Translation: A Very Short Introduction
• 'Grammar is cool, and it's cool to know your grammar'
• Professor of Poetry Lecture – Professor Simon Armitage: 'We Need To Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature'
• Professor of Poetry Lecture – Professor Simon Armitage 'Like, Elizabeth Bishop'
• Boethius
• Old English Coursepack
• Professor Vincent Gillespie
• Professor Lynda Mugglestone
• ‘We used to correspond’ Reading of the letters of Philip Larkin and Barbara Pym
• British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason
• Colin Franklin Book Collecting Prize
• Other Associated Staff
• Dr Helen Appleton
• Staging History exhibition
• Staging History exhibition
• D F McKenzie Lecture 2017: ‘Publish and perish in Japan: why manuscripts continued to circulate in the age of print’
• Resources for current students
• How can we best commemorate war?
• CANCELLED Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture 2017- ‘Title To Be Confirmed: the resonance, challenge and vitality in the titles of literary works’
• Professor Valentine Cunningham appointed OBE
• Professor Ushashi Dasgupta
• Oxford Literary Review issue on the work of Ann Wordsworth
• 'Staging History' podcasts now available
• Dr Annie Sutherland's book wins Beatrice White Prize 2017
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the 19th Century: Pathologies of Solitude
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the 19th Century: Medical Authority, (pseudo)Science and the Explained Supernatural in Late Victorian Female Gothic Fiction
• Dr Freya Johnston article is RES Editor's Choice
• O'Donnell Lecture: Curious Traveller: Britain, Britons and Britishness in Thomas Pennant’s 'Tours'
• Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series 2017-18 - Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
• Graduate Fellowship opportunity
• Visiting Academics
• Graduate applicants: save the date!
• The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes
• Oxford student wins national essay prize
• Redesigning the Medieval Book - workshops
• Germs Revisited
• New Daphne du Maurier documentary premieres in Paris
• Weaving Words and Binding Bodies: The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature
• The Psalms and Medieval English Literature: From the Conversion to the Reformation
• The Making of England: A New History of the Anglo-Saxon World
• Oxford tops the rankings for the second year
• BBC New Generation Thinkers announced
• The Love of Strangers: Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle
• After Chichele: Intellectual and Cultural Dynamics of the English Church 1443 to 1517
• Astor Lecture: ‘Coastal Literature and the Twentieth Century: Ireland and the Atlantic World’
• Astor Lecture: 'Disaster Drawn: Comics and Picturing Violence'
• Visiting Professor of Creative Media lectures - No Filter: Power and Pictures in a Post Truth World
• Visiting Professor of Creative Media lectures - No Filter: Power and Pictures in a Post Truth World
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the 19th Century Seminar: 'Ada Lovelace in her Mathematical Context'
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the 19th Century Seminar: 'On the Stratification of Language'
• Science, Medicine and Culture in the 19th Century Seminar: 'Time Tribes: How the Railways Made Communities (1840-1900)'
• Booking now open for 'Postcolonial Conversations' alumni event
• Humanities Innovation Challenge finalists
• Alumni Event: 'Postcolonial Conversations'
• Faculty prizewinners announced
• Dr Freya Johnston featured on BBC Radio 4
• Prof Daniel Wakelin featured on the BBC World Service
• Prof Kathryn Sutherland featured on BBC Radio 4
• Dr Sophie Ratcliffe wins University Public Engagement Award for Unsilencing the Library
• Professor Matthew Bevis
• Which Jane Austen?
• Clarendon Lecture 1: Literature and Literariness
• CANCELLED: Clarendon Lecture: Hobbes and Maker's Knowledge
• Clarendon Lecture 2: Milton and the Problem of Belief
• Clarendon Lecture 3: Literariness in Kant, Kierkegaard and Coetzee
• Professor of Poetry Lecture: The Hawks and the Doves – raptors and rapture in the poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes.
• Learical Tennysons website launched
• The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
• Dr Cosima Gillhammer
• Dorothy Richardson in Abingdon Exhibition
• The Oxford English Literary History vol. 1: 1000-1350. Conquest and Transformation
• 'Disorder's Avatar'? Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Disability Representation
• Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize 2018
• Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages
• Dr Kate Bennett and Professor Dame Marina Warner Honoured by the British Academy
• Professor Karen O'Brien Featured on BBC Radio 4
• Dr Michael J Sullivan
• Welcome to our new Mellon Visiting Professor
• Memoir and Memory: Aminatta Forna in conversation with Elleke Boehmer
• Professor Ros Ballaster featured on BBC Radio 4
• Inaugural Lecture – Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature
• Dr Ben Higgins
• Is the future covfefe?
• Inaugural Lecture of the Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature
• Designing English at the Bodleian
• Professor of Poetry Hilary Term lecture – 'Like, Elizabeth Bishop'
• Professor of Poetry Lecture Trinity Term: "Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres"
• McKenzie Lecture – The idea of ‘the reading public’: literary history or cultural criticism?
• Visiting Professor of Creative Media lecture – The End of Journalism? (1)
• Visiting Professor of Creative Media lecture – The End of Journalism? (2)
• Tower Poetry Competition 2018 – now open for entries
• Professor Noël Sugimura
• Here Be Dragons: the Oxford Fantasy Literature Summer School
• Medical Humanities Summer School
• Dr Stephen Bernard to receive MLA Prize
• Remembering Douglas Gray, FBA
• Academics on the air over the holiday
• Katherine Rundell wins Costa Children's Book Award
• Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prizegiving 2018
• Nicholas of Lyra (c. 1270–1349) and the Late Medieval Bible
• Dr David Barnes
• New Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
• Got gout? Grab an owl
• Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• World Literature: For and Against (Part 2)
• Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing
• Reading Bass Culture: Linton Kwesi Johnson in conversation with Paul Gilroy
• Our Migration Story wins prize
• New Leverhulme Doctoral Centre announced
• Wycliffism and Hussitism: Contexts, Methods, Perspectives
• Dr Rafael Pascual
• Robert Louis Stevenson: A Life in Stories
• Personal tales from Oxford English academics
• O'Donnell Lecture 2018 - Cheapside in Wales: Textiles and Commodities in Medieval Welsh Poetry
• Book Launch: Xu Bing 徐冰 in Conversation with Professor Peter D McDonald
• New doctoral awards with the English Faculty
• Baroque between the Wars
• New Generation Thinkers 2018 - Dr Lisa J Mullen
• Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize winners announced
• Dr Stephen Bernard awarded Bibliographical Society Research Fellowship
• Music and Memory: composer Jonathan Dove in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy
• Professor Joe Moshenska
• The First World War and the Senses
• 'Margery Kempe Studies in the 21st Century' conference at University College
• Dr Foteini Dimirouli
• Merve Emre and Nicholas Gaskill appointed as Associate Professors of American Literature
• Oxford's first Annual Admissions statistics report released today
• Democratisting the Classics - winning awards
• Kristin Grogan wins Oxford Poetry Society Martin Starkie Prize
• Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture - Towards a Vegan Theory
• Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern
• War Graves Commission announces funding for Lest We Forget
• The English Faculty welcomes applications for BA Postdoctoral Fellowships
• England’s Insular Imaginings – Inaugural Lecture of Professor Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor of English Literature
• Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 1: Shakespeare Without a Life
• Professor Eric Stanley 1923-2018
• Student-nominated teaching prizes awarded to Faculty members
• New British Academy Fellows announced
• Announcing the Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize 2019
• Professor of Poetry Lecture: 'Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' – Simon Armitage
• Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 2: Shakespeare's Timeline
• Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 3: The Archive and its Discontents
• Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 4: Shakespeare's Dateless Sonnets
• Clarendon Lecture 1: Messing About in Boats – Rilke's 'Auswanderer-Schiff' or 'Emigrant Ship'
• Making Oscar Wilde
• Professor Carolyne Larrington awarded Order of the Falcon
• Professor Nicholas Gaskill
• UNIQ Summer Schools
• A day in the life of an English student at Oxford
• For Teachers and Advisors
• Prize for the Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
• Dr Oliver Clarkson
• Professor Rachel A. Burns
• Sign up to the English Faculty's mailing list for teachers
• Oxford launches new MSt in Comparative Literature
• A Middle English Translation from Petrarch's Secretum
• The Saint and the Saga Hero: Hagiography and Early Icelandic Literature
• Material Texts in Early Modern England
• If Not Critical
• Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors
• Veteran Poetics British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015
• Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings
• Designing English: Early Literature on the Page
• Professor David Francis Taylor
• Liberty, Equality and Humbug: Orwell's Political Ideals
• English Faculty Teachers' Conference
• British Literature in Transition: 1960-1980 – Flower Power
• The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity
• Medical Humanities Summer School 2019
• Soul-Health: Therapeutic Reading in Later Medieval England
• Tower Poetry Competition 2019
• Decadence and Translation network launch
• Literature and Transnational Citizenship workshops and events
• Literature for life
• A day of Shakespeare
• Meet a student!
• Professor of Poetry lecture: ‘Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments’ – Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness
• Clarendon Lecture 2: Messing About in Boats – Rimbaud's 'Bateau Ivre' or 'Drunken Ship'
• Clarendon Lecture 3: Messing about in Boats – Montale's 'Barche sulla Marna' or 'Boats on the Marne'
• Clarendon Lecture 4: Messing About in Boats – Solie's 'The World'
• OCLW and the Oxford English Faculty - Life-writing day
• Dirk Van Hulle, Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp, appointed Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History
• Spotlight - May 2018
• ‘of making manye bokis is noon ende’: Editing the Wycliffite Bible
• Ruskin, Science and the Environment Conference
• Ruskin's Trees
• Outreach on the road: Lincolnshire and North East school visits
• Mindboggling Medical History
• Fantasy, Medievalism and Oxford English
• Spotlight on Students: Daniel Abdalla
• Spotlight on Students: Hannah Simpson
• Spotlight on Staff: Professor Lorna Hutson
• Spotlight on Staff: Dr Stuart Lee
• Spotlight on the Faculty - May 2018
• Spotlight on Alumni: Frances Hardinge (BA, 1992)
• Spotlight on Alumni: Duncan Baxter (BA, 1972)
• Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
• 'Ungainefull Arte': Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era
• Laura Ashe and Simon Armitage on 'In Our Time'
• Simon Armitage wins Queen's gold medal for poetry 2018
• DPhil Students and Post-Award Members
• The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
• Bart van Es wins 2018 Costa Biography Award for his book 'The Cut Out Girl'
• Hannah Sullivan wins T. S. Eliot Prize for her first collection Three Poems
• Meet a student!
• ACS English Study Day
• The Rebellious Royalist Women of the English Revolution
• Oxford Colleges: How do I choose?
• An Evening of Poetry Reading
• 'Into Silence' project receives PER seed funding
• £20 million research hub could help African teens achieve their full potential
• Dr Alexandra Paddock
• The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es wins Costa Book of the Year
• Translation Theory and Practice in the Later Middle Ages: the Bible and Beyond
• Professor Santanu Das
• Digital Knowledge and the Death of Certainty: Shakespeare, Joyce, and the OED
• Writing the Stuart successions
• Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations
• Truth, Lies and Videotape – drawing the line between acceptable artifice and unacceptable deception.
• Mercury’s Perihelion and The Donald
• Spotlight - December 2018
• Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic
• Chaucer: A European Life
• The Cut Out Girl: A Story or War and Family, Lost and Found
• Spotlight on Students: Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston, Hertford College
• Spotlight on Students: Laura Wright, University College
• Spotlight on Staff: Professor Peter McDonald
• Spotlight on Staff: Professor Helen Small
• Meet a student!
• Save the date! Simon Armitage valedictory lecture as Professor of Poetry - 15 May 2019
• Dr Ayoush Lazikani
• Diseases of Modern Life Resources
• Professor of Poetry valedictory lecture: ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer’
• O'Donnell Lecture: 'When is Variation a Dialect? The Case of Old Irish'
• Chaucer: A European Life
• Brexit: "And Now What?"
• The Orrmulum: Bodleian MS Junius 1
• What happens in an English tutorial?
• Woodland Words Launch Event
• Oxford seeks new Professor of Poetry to succeed Simon Armitage
• Notre Dame: writers and the shock of destruction through History
• Making History: Christian Cole, Alain Locke and Oscar Wilde at Oxford
• ACS English Study Day
• Newly discovered Du Maurier poems shed light on a talented writer honing her craft
• This Is Shakespeare
• State school teachers win Oxford award after being nominated by English students
• Simon Armitage to be next Poet Laureate
• English Faculty Teachers' Conference
• Architectures of the Novel: A NOVEL Colloquium
• Special Issue of Victorian Poetry - Edited by Dr Michael J. Sullivan
• Prismatic Jane Eyre
• The Lost Properties of Love
• Wordsworth's Fun
• Toni Morrison: American literary giant made it her life’s work to ensure that black lives (and voices) matter
• Diseases of Modern Life: 19th Century Perspectives database launch
• Toni Morrison: Oxford Expert Discusses Author's Life and Work on Radio 4
• Recognition of Distinction Awards 2019
• "What about Oxford?" Studying English here as a mature student
• The Art of Erosion
• Professor Simon Armitage - Professor of Poetry Lectures
• Stress caused sleeplessness for the Victorians too – but they thought it only afflicted ‘brain-workers’
• Evening Talk: Orwell and Journalism
• Symposium: Nineteen Eighty-Four Now
• Exhibition: Room 103
• Professor Marina Mackay wins prestigious Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
• The Sous-Oeuvre and Digital Scholarly Editing: Voltaire in Beckett’s Books
• Professor Nandini Das
• The Pardoner's Tale
• Regional School Visits
• Oxford for Oxford
• ‘Every man a liar’: truth, text, rhetoric Day conference Saturday 2 November 2019 Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• Booker Prize 2019
• 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners
• 'It's never too late'
• English Faculty Teachers' Conference 2020
• Jane Eyre translated: 57 languages show how different cultures interpret Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel
• Five common words we're all using incorrectly
• Request Form for use of Faculty Allowance
• Examining the OED
• Chaucer: A European Life by Dr Marion Turner
• Alumna publishes dissertation in leading journal
• Medical Humanities Summer School, 12-18 July 2020
• Joint Honours: Not just for when you can’t make your mind up!
• Writers Make Worlds - Patience Agbabi
• Dr Daniele Nunziata
• Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Anxious Times: one of the FT's Best Business Reads of the Year
• The Lost Properties of Love by Dr Sophie Ratcliffe
• Clarendon Lecture 1: Pilgrims and Cold Earth Wanderers
• Clarendon Lecture 2: The Lost Traveller's Dream: Angels, Spectres, Shadows
• Clarendon Lecture 3: A Fearful Journey: Lions and Tygers
• Clarendon Lecture 4: Spiraling through Eternity in Nets and Trees
• Departmental Privacy Notice
• Ben Grant
• Animate Ivory: Animality, Materiality, and Pygmalion’s Statue
• Enlightenment, Information, and the Copernican Delay: A Venture into the History of Knowledge
• The Poet’s Essay – Denise Levertov
• “Trap doors in private houses" : Drama and Theatricality in the Work of Maria Edgeworth
• Woman much missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy and Poetry
• McKenzie 25 Years On: Anniversaries, Legacies, Reflection
• Reading Traces: On Book History’s Digital Future
• The Hebrew-Latin Manuscripts of the Library of Corpus Christi College
• The Hebrew-Latin Manuscripts of the Library of Corpus Christi College
• The Hebrew-Latin Manuscripts of the Library of Corpus Christi College
• African Classics: Translating texts, translated contexts
• Thinking Poetry: Alice Oswald and Denise Riley — A Reading and A Conversation
• Writers Make Worlds: POSTPONED
• Antjie Krog in conversation
• Oxford Poets - Celebrating Fifty Years of Carcanet Press
• Tribute to Terry Jones by Dr Marion Turner
• Research Seminars
• The Korrigan Consort presents 'The Gentlewomen'
• Dr Joe Moshenska on BBC Radio 4's 'Equal As We Are'
• Year 12 Humanities BAME Study Day 2020
• The Dynastic Drama of 'Beowulf'
• Professor Dirk Van Hulle
• Professor Nandini Das on BBC Radio 3's 'Sunday Feature'
• Professor Peter Davidson wins Barry Bloomfield Award
• Professor Judith Buchanan
• The Very Reverend Dr John Drury
• Professor William Ghosh
• Dr Katharina Herold
• Dr Amanda Holton
• Dr Anne Mouron
• Dr Eleanor Parker
• Katherine Rundell
• Dr Hannah Ryley
• Dr Nicola Trott
• Pandemics from Homer to Stephen King
• The Death of Professor Christopher Butler
• Poets at Keble
• The Poet's Essay
• Professor of Poetry Lecture Trinity 2020
• Shelley-Mills Prize Winner 2020
• Professor Santanu Das wins the Hindu Non-Fiction prize and the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize
• Invalids on the Move
• This is Shakespeare
• The Social Life of Books
• Russomania
• James Joyce and the Jesuits
• How to read Shakespeare for pleasure
• The Making of an Imperial Polity
• World Literature in Motion
• Making History Oxford shortlisted for award
• New War and Representation podcast series
• Chaucer biography shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
• New 'Out of Silence' podcast series available now!
• Faculty Officers
• When Dame Vera Lynn said ‘we’ll meet again’ to me – the incredible enduring appeal of a British wartime legend
• Lockdown 2020 crowd-sourcing project
• Reading suggestions for undergraduate offer holders
• Oxford Research in English is now online
• Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066
• Professor Laura Ashe features on Simon Armitage's new Radio 4 podcast series
• Faculty of English recognised with Athena Swan Bronze Award
• Reading English Verse in Manuscript c.1350-c.1500
• Professor Marion Turner on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
• Live event: Professor of Poetry lecture
• Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction
• Projects receive Social Sciences award
• Progress and pathology: Medicine and culture in the nineteenth century
• Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Statement on Racism
• Book at Lunchtime: Prismatic Translation
• The Poet's Mistake
• Sir Roger Newdigate prize awarded to Leung Rachel Ka Yin
• New Chaucer podcast with Professor Marion Turner
• The Contagion Cabaret: film release
• The Contagion Cabaret: Post-show Decontamination Discussion
• Forum on race and education
• Shakespeare and the plague
• What can you do with an English degree?
• Coronavirus statement
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Art and Action: Literary Authorship, Politics, and Celebrity Culture
• Masculinities in Old Norse Literature
• Better access to stories can improve adolescent lives in Africa
• Comets, omens and fear: understanding plague in the Middle Ages
• Podcast: A History of Pandemics
• Alice Oswald's Professor of Poetry lecture now online
• Live Event: Imagined Journeys: Pilgrimage, Diplomacy, and Colonialism in Medieval Europe
• Ten-Minute Book Club
• The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
• About Ten-Minute Book Club
• English Faculty ranks 2nd in the Complete University Guide league table
• Live Event: The Arts in Lockdown
• Professor Elleke Boehmer's book longlisted for award
• The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time
• A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre
• The Gifts of Fortune
• Dr Daniele Nunziata interview on Radio Oxford
• Resources
• Aviv Reich wins British Association for Jewish Studies Prize
• Lord Alfred Douglas Prize 2020 awarded
• ‘The Royal Ascetic and the Hind’ by Toru Dutt
• Professor Colin Burrow named as Fellow of the British Academy
• Prof Kirsten Shepherd-Barr highly commended in Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Awards
• Spotlight – July 2020
• Spotlight on Research: Accelerate Hub
• Spotlight on Research: TIDE
• Spotlight on Staff: Dr Ushashi Dasgupta
• Spotlight on Staff: Dr David Taylor
• Spotlight on Students: Bhagya Casaba Somashekar
• Spotlight on Students: Sophie Gwilt
• Spotlight on Students: Sam Spencer
• Spotlight on Alumni: Patience Agbabi
• Funding success for the Digital Edgeworth Network
• The Ten-Minute Book Club has launched!
• On Commemoration: Global Reflections Upon Remembering War
• Making History Oxford website is now live!
• The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince
• Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
• Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain
• ‘The Knight’s Tale’ by Geoffrey Chaucer and ‘Emily’ by Patience Agbabi
• Swapna Dev Memorial Book Prize awarded to Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston
• The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano
• ‘The Fly’ by Katherine Mansfield
• English DPhil students' app shortlisted for award
• Inscription: a new journal for the study of material texts
• On Essays
• Professor Laura Ashe presents BBC4 programme on Plague Fiction
• Professor Santanu Das awarded 2020 ESSE Book Prize
• Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley
• The Poems of W.B. Yeats, Volume One: 1882-1889
• The Poems of W. B. Yeats, Volume Two: 1890-1898
• Tom Stoppard
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• DPhil candidate Chelsea Haith launches Narrative Futures podcast
• TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities)
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Live Event: Professor of Poetry Lecture
• GLAM (Oxford University Gardens, Libraries & Museums)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Statement on Medieval English seminar series
• Nobel Prize for Literature 2020: our experts react
• Talking Afropean
• The Modern Irish Sonnet
• After Lacan
• Ankhi Mukherjee is delivering the Lisa Jardine Annual English Lecture at QMUL this year
• Professor Nandini Das features in documentary on Henry VIII
• 'Moon Viewing' – A Postal Poetry Performance
• Recognition of Distinction Awards 2020
• Architectural Space and the Imagination
• The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
• McKenzie Lecture: The magazine and world literature
• The Rhetoric of the Page
• LitHits becomes a spinout company
• Professor Paulina Kewes quoted in the press
• Chaucer biography features in New Statesman's Books of the Year
• V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought
• William Empson: Some Versions of Pastoral
• Art & Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in Conversation
• The Letters of Denis Devlin
• Professor Paulina Kewes awarded Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust
• TIDE project launches an interactive multimedia archive
• Professor Charlotte Brewer has been awarded funding to create a pilot edition of the Murray Papers
• Spotlight on Research: Ten-Minute Book Club
• Spotlight – December 2020
• Spotlight on Research: Prismatic Jane Eyre
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• The Woman of Colour, an Anonymous novel
• Conversation between Chen Chen & Lora Supandi (excerpt from State of Play)
• Conversation between Yanyi and Mary Jean Chan (excerpt from State of Play)
• Imagining Queer Ecologies
• Interviews with ‘State of Play’ poets
• Dr Eleri Anona Watson
• English Faculty members at the Oxford Literary Festival 2024
• Recording of latest Professor of Poetry talk now online
• Storytelling Across Different Media with David Baddiel: recording now available
• Faculty of English: Use of cookies on this website
• How three 18th century ‘deviant mothers’ defied social norms in their novel writing
• Professor of Poetry lecture: Pirates, poets, and "plagiarism"
• Dr Pim Verhulst
• Dr Octavia Cox
• O'Donnell Lecture 2024:"Which name is more fitting for them?" Irish ethnonyms in Late Antiquity
• Ten-Minute Book Club shortlisted for a Vice-Chancellor’s Award
• Reading Group: Literature and Mental Health
• This year’s Shelley-Mills Prize awarded to Daniella Sakota
• Professor Simon Horobin's new book sheds light on the relationship between C.S. Lewis and John Betjeman
• The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
• Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
• Dr Stephanie M. Volder
• Open Day for prospective students - 26 June 2024
• Open Day for prospective students - 27 June 2024
• Open Day for prospective students - 20 September 2024
• Special issue of Textual Practice Journal reflects on Laura Marcus’s contribution to literary criticism
• The Chancellor’s English Essay Prize 2024 awarded to Constance Everett-Pite
• News UK Lecture Trinity Term 2024: The Rise of English
• Oxford Community Collections
• Lockdown2020 and beyond
• Woruldhord
• Interview with Dr Nelson Mlambo, Africa Oxford Initiative Visiting Fellow
• English Creates Careers: What can you do with a degree in English?
• This year's Sir Roger Newdigate Prize awarded to Shaw Worth
• Sir Gregory Doran directs Shakespeare play staged and performed by Oxford University students
• How to Read Middle English Poetry
• C. S. Lewis's Oxford
• The Alfredian Boethius Project
• Dr Hannah Schühle-Lewis
• Write Cut Rewrite
• An Evening with Natalka Vorozhbyt
• Patience
• Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr presented with Honorary Doctorate
• English Creates campaign highlights the creative and economic value of English degrees
• English Faculty-led project launches online archive with over 25,000 newly uncovered artefacts from WW2
• Boethius in Early Medieval Europe
• Oxford University awarded top spot for English Language and Literature in QS World University Rankings 2024
• The Age of Alfred: Rethinking English Literary Culture c. 850–950
• Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize awarded to Jordan Maly-Preuss
• Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero
• Professor Ankhi Mukherjee shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards 2024
• Our English undergraduates answer quickfire questions
• Professor Nandini Das's book ‘Courting India’ to be reinterpreted through photography
• Celebrating recent publications by our Faculty members – July 2024
• Writing Pre-Conquest England: A History of Old English Prose
• Professor Peter Boxall elected Fellow of the British Academy
• Spotlight – July 2024
• Spotlight on Staff: Professor Adam Smyth
• Spotlight on Staff: Dr Christy Wensley
• Spotlight on research: Write Cut Rewrite
• Spotlight on Research: Wartime Shakespeare
• Spotlight on Students: Shaw Worth
• Spotlight on Students: Saul Bailey
• Spotlight on Alumni: Carol Atherton
• Translating Europe in Ælfric's Lives of Saints
• Creative writing workshop with David Baddiel
• Dr Nicholas Smart
• Dorothy Whitelock Lectures
• Dorothy Whitelock Lecture: Social History and False Friends
• Joshua Abbey
• Muhammad Hameem Bin Sheik Alaudin
• Harriet Carter
• Han Au Chua
• Corinne Clark
• Ali Emir Daglar
• Ceola Daly
• Ciaran Duncan
• Riley Faulds
• Greta Gard
• Kathryn Hempstead
• Syed Muhammad Khalid
• Abigail Longmate
• Eliza McCarthy
• Oisin McManus
• Lily Middleton-Mansell
• Julia Moore
• Ben Philipps
• Lucie Richter-Mahr
• Joshua Robey
• Pablo Scheffer
• Emma Sibbald
• Clémence Smith
• Ruth Thrush
• James Titterington
• Yishu Wu
• Recognition of Distinction Awards 2024
• Dr Luisa Ostacchini
• Emilie Badoux
• University of Oxford takes top spot for English in Guardian University Guide 2025
• Professor Emma Smith to join the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company
• The Rings of Power: season two is a vast improvement – and a meditation on the dangerous allure of AI
• Prof Lorna Hutson longlisted for Saltire Society Literary Awards
• Prof Nandini Das's 'Courting India' shortlisted for Wolfson History Prize 2024
• Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes (Professor of Poetry lecture, Nov 2024)
• Unlocking the Exeter Book Conference
• Reading the Room: Books, Access and Community in Heritage Spaces
• New research project: Reading the Room
• Professor Ted Tregear
• Professor Tamara Atkin
• Dr Kirsty Bolton
• Dr Stephen Turton
• Dr Sheila Byers
• Death Tricks: Chastity as Killed Vaccine (Oxford Wells Lecture 1)
• Prosopopeia, Or, What Have You Done for Me Lately? (Oxford Wells Lecture 2)
• Dr Ethan A. Plaue
• The Battle of Maldon: A New Critical Edition
• Dr Tom Revell
• Echolocations: Thoughts on Poems
• Almost Emily Dickinson (Clarendon Lecture 1 by Professor Teju Cole)
• Tissue of Echoes: On W.S. Merwin (Clarendon Lecture 2 by Professor Teju Cole)
• Dilation Dark Absorbs: On Kay Ryan (Clarendon Lecture 3 by Professor Teju Cole)
• Layli Long Soldier’s Intermission (Clarendon Lecture 4 by Professor Teju Cole)
• Kaleidoscope Dreams: Falling in Love, with Quarantine (Oxford Wells Lecture 3)
• A Plague of Social Subjects: Timon Takes the Cure (Oxford Wells Lecture 4)