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- Winners of the Marilyn Butler Dissertation Prize announced
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- The James Ford Lectures 2017 - History in English Criticism, 1919-1961
- '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'
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- 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
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- Dr Ushashi Dasgupta
- Dr Benjamin Westwood
- 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
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- 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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- 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
- Dr Colleen Curran
- Humanities Innovation Challenge finalists
- Alumni Event: 'Postcolonial Conversations'
- Faculty prizewinners announced
- Dr Freya Johnston featured on BBC Radio 4
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- 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
- Dr Tom White
- 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 Diana Leca
- 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
- 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
- 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
- LitHits
- Oxford's first Annual Admissions statistics report released today
- Democratisting the Classics - winning awards
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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
- Professor Carolyne Larrington awarded Order of the Falcon
- Dr Nicholas Gaskill
- Dr Merve Emre
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- Prize for the Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
- Dr Oliver Clarkson
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- Dr Nikolas Gunn
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- 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
- Dr Elsa Hammond
- 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
- What is it like?
- 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 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
- Adam Bridgen
- Andrew Wynn Owen
- Anne Kelly
- Antje Chan
- Ben Norbury
- Bond West
- Chloe Nahum
- Claire Landis
- Cristóbal Pérez Barra
- Emma-Jane Hampsheir-Gill
- Felicity Brown
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- Harry Daniels
- Helen Brown
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- James Parkhouse
- Jemima Hubberstey
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- Joanna Perks
- Joel Casey
- Kate Allan
- Lakshmi Priya Balakrishnan
- Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston
- Lucy Brookes
- Yasser Khan
- Tom McLean
- The Rebellious Royalist Women of the English Revolution
- Talitha Slabbert
- Sarah Waltcher
- Samuel Wood
- Samira Lindstedt
- Ruth Ramsden-Karelse
- Richard Phillips
- Richard Graham
- Rathika Muthukumaran
- Peter Buchanan
- Mariachiara Leteo
- Megan Bushnell
- Melissa Alexander
- Mimi Lu
- Minjie Su
- Molly Clark
- Edwina Watson
- Niall Summers
- Olivia Anderson
- 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
- Eleanor Baker
- Sofie Behluli
- Ellen B. Brewster
- Bhagya Casaba Somashekar
- Grace Cowtan
- Lauren Ianthe Cullen
- Angelica De Vido
- Andrew Lanfranco Dickinson
- Chloe Fairbanks
- Robert Hlathi Freeman
- Zachary Garber
- Matthew Gillis
- Timothy Glover
- Hannah Greenstreet
- Chelsea Haith
- Joseph Hankinson
- Jack L Hart
- Jack Threlfall Hartley
- Lillian Hingley
- Rachael Hodge
- Sean Ketteringham
- Robert Laurella
- Tara Lee
- George Manning
- Annika Ester Maresia
- Fergus McGhee
- Gabriela Minden
- James Misson
- Andrew J. Newell
- Luisa Ostacchini
- Kathryn Peak
- Yousif M Qasmiyeh
- Raphaela Rohrhofer
- Donglai Shi (Flair)
- Alicia Smith
- Audrey L Southgate
- Paul Stephens
- Felix Taylor
- Leah Veronese
- Leonie Wanitzek
- Eleri Anona Watson
- Anouska Wilkinson
- Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull
- 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
- 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?
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