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- Science, Medicine and Culture in the 19th Century Seminar: 'Ada Lovelace in her Mathematical Context'
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- Dr Colleen Curran
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- Professor Matthew Bevis
- Which Jane Austen?
- Clarendon Lecture 1: Literature and Literariness
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- 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
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- Dr Cosima Gillhammer
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- Dr Kate Bennett and Professor Dame Marina Warner Honoured by the British Academy
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- Welcome to our new Mellon Visiting Professor
- Memoir and Memory: Aminatta Forna in conversation with Elleke Boehmer
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- Inaugural Lecture – Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature
- Dr Ben Higgins
- Is the future covfefe?
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- Designing English at the Bodleian
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings
- Designing English: Early Literature on the Page
- Dr David F Taylor
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- British Literature in Transition: 1960-1980 – Flower Power
- The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity
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- Soul-Health: Therapeutic Reading in Later Medieval England
- Tower Poetry Competition 2019
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- 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
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- 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
- Kathleen Lawton-Trask
- DPhil Students
- 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
- Adam Bridgen
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- Andrew Wynn Owen
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- The Rebellious Royalist Women of the English Revolution
- Talitha Slabbert
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- Olivia Anderson
- Patrick Burley
- 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
- Ann Ang
- Jake Arthur
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- Eleanor Baker
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- Sofie Behluli
- Ellen B. Brewster
- Bhagya Casaba Somashekar
- Camilla Chen
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- Grace Cowtan
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- Angelica De Vido
- Andrew Lanfranco Dickinson
- Chloe Fairbanks
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- Zachary Garber
- Matthew Gillis
- Timothy Glover
- Hannah Greenstreet
- Chelsea Haith
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- Eleanor Hardy
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- Lillian Hingley
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- Matthew Roby
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- Donglai Shi (Flair)
- Alicia Smith
- Audrey L Southgate
- Anirudh Sridhar
- Paul Stephens
- Felix Taylor
- Leah Veronese
- Leonie Wanitzek
- Eleri Anona Watson
- Anouska Wilkinson
- Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull
- Georgina Wilson
- Sian Witherden
- Eirian Yem
- 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
- Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla
- Dr Jack Parlett
- 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 Thomas Constantinesco
- 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
- Dr Rose Sawyer
- 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
- Dr Michael Kalisch
- 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
- Dr Marcello Cattaneo
- Professor Nandini Das on BBC Radio 3's 'Sunday Feature'
- Dr Eleni Philippou
- Professor Peter Davidson wins Barry Bloomfield Award
- Dr Sarah Bennett
- Professor Judith Buchanan
- The Very Reverend Dr John Drury
- Dr William Ghosh
- Dr Katharina Herold
- Dr Amanda Holton
- Dr Charlie Lee-Potter
- Dr Anne Mouron
- Dr Eleanor Parker
- Katherine Rundell
- Dr Hannah Ryley
- Dr Ruth Scobie
- Dr Haig Smith
- Dr Nicola Trott
- Dr Lauren Working
- Andrew Wynn Owen
- 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
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