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- Professor Matthew Bevis
- Which Jane Austen?
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- Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
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- Dr Catherine Gilbert
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- Clarendon Lecture 1: Literature and Literariness
- CANCELLED: Clarendon Lecture: Hobbes and Maker's Knowledge
- Clarendon Lecture 2: Milton and the Problem of Belief
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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
- The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
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- 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
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- 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 Diana Leca
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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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- Postdoctoral Research Assistant – A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
- Inaugural Lecture of the Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature
- Designing English at the Bodleian
- Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships – applications welcome
- 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
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- Dr Noël Sugimura
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- Remembering Douglas Gray, FBA
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- Katherine Rundell wins Costa Children's Book Award
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- 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
- 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
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- 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 J. Pascual
- Dr Kate Highman
- 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
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- Baroque between the Wars
- Associate Professorship in Literature in English 1660-1830
- 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
- Dr Joe Moshenska
- The First World War and the Senses
- 'Margery Kempe Studies in the 21st Century' conference at University College
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- Associate Professorship in Global Medieval Literature at St Edmund Hall
- Departmental Lecturer in English Literature 1800-present (two posts)
- Dr Foteini Dimirouli
- Merve Emre and Nicholas Gaskill appointed as Associate Professors of American Literature
- Departmental Lecturer in English Language and Literature
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- Oxford's first Annual Admissions statistics report released today
- Democratisting the Classics - winning awards
- Stipendiary Lectureship in English
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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
- Stipendiary Lecturer in English Language and Literature (Magdalen College)
- Daryl Green
- The English Faculty welcomes applications for BA Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Part-time Research Assistant – Shakespeare’s Scotland
- 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
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant – A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
- Part-time Research Support Officer (Oxford Centre for Textual and Editorial Theory)
- Student-nominated teaching prizes awarded to Faculty members
- New British Academy Fellows announced
- Announcing the Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize 2019
- Fitzjames Research Fellowship in Medieval English Literature
- 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
- Part-time Research Co-ordinator – Lest We Forget
- Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 2: Shakespeare's Timeline
- Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 3: Sorting Shakespeare's Archive
- Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 4: Shakespeare's Dateless Sonnets
- Clarendon Lectures: Messing About in Boats – Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Eugenio Montale, and Karen Solie
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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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- 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
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