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• 'Have ye ever seen a child clemmed to death?': Elizabeth Gaskell and the Physiology of Starvation
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• The James Ford Lectures 2017 - History in English Criticism, 1919-1961
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• Professor of Poetry Lecture – Professor Simon Armitage: 'We Need To Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature'
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• 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
• Dr Ushashi Dasgupta
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• 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'
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• The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes
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• Oxford tops the rankings for the second year
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• 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)'
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• Faculty prizewinners announced
• Dr Freya Johnston featured on BBC Radio 4
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• 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
• Dr 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
• New Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
• Got gout? Grab an owl
• Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Dr Robert Stagg
• 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
• Dr Nicholas Gaskill
• Dr Merve Emre
• 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 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
• Dr David F 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
• Colloquium: 'Imagining Madness'
• 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
• Medieval Studies Group perform Medieval Mystery Plays
• 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
• Dr George Potts
• 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
• Dr Harriet Soper
• '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'
• Dr Namratha Rao
• Year 12 Humanities BAME Study Day 2020
• The Dynastic Drama of 'Beowulf'
• Professor Dirk Van Hulle
• Dr Rachel Bryan
• 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
• Dr 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
• Advice for taking the English Literature Admissions Test (ELAT)
• 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
• Professor Marion Turner's book on Chaucer wins the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
• 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
• Dr Charlotte Terrell
• 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
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