Faculty of English, University of Oxford
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Save the date! Join us on 29 January at the Schwarzman Centre for our next Professor of #Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social. The title of the lecture is 'People Poems: Portraits in Verse'.
ALL WELCOME! Booking details will be confirmed in the new year.
ALL WELCOME! Booking details will be confirmed in the new year.
December 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Save the date! Join us on 29 January at the Schwarzman Centre for our next Professor of #Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social. The title of the lecture is 'People Poems: Portraits in Verse'.
ALL WELCOME! Booking details will be confirmed in the new year.
ALL WELCOME! Booking details will be confirmed in the new year.
Our wonderful #Shakespeare webinars are continuing in 2026!
Join us on 5 Jan to explore 'Measure for Measure'. Emma Smith will be joined by Emma Whipday to discuss the play & how we might approach it differently in the twenty-first century.
shakespeare-webinar-measure-for-measure.eventbrite.co.uk
Join us on 5 Jan to explore 'Measure for Measure'. Emma Smith will be joined by Emma Whipday to discuss the play & how we might approach it differently in the twenty-first century.
shakespeare-webinar-measure-for-measure.eventbrite.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Our wonderful #Shakespeare webinars are continuing in 2026!
Join us on 5 Jan to explore 'Measure for Measure'. Emma Smith will be joined by Emma Whipday to discuss the play & how we might approach it differently in the twenty-first century.
shakespeare-webinar-measure-for-measure.eventbrite.co.uk
Join us on 5 Jan to explore 'Measure for Measure'. Emma Smith will be joined by Emma Whipday to discuss the play & how we might approach it differently in the twenty-first century.
shakespeare-webinar-measure-for-measure.eventbrite.co.uk
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The English Faculty mourns the death of John Carey, Merton Professor from 1975 to 2002, undoubtedly the man with whom the title of Merton Professor of English Literature will remain indelibly associated in the public mind.
Read a tribute to Professor Carey on our website:
Read a tribute to Professor Carey on our website:
A Tribute to John Carey (1934-2025), Merton Professor of English Literature, 1975-2002
english.web.ox.ac.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The English Faculty mourns the death of John Carey, Merton Professor from 1975 to 2002, undoubtedly the man with whom the title of Merton Professor of English Literature will remain indelibly associated in the public mind.
Read a tribute to Professor Carey on our website:
Read a tribute to Professor Carey on our website:
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We're hiring!
Come work with us @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bkhistoxford.bsky.social !!!
Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History
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Come work with us @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bkhistoxford.bsky.social !!!
Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History
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Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We're hiring!
Come work with us @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bkhistoxford.bsky.social !!!
Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP968/p...
Come work with us @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bkhistoxford.bsky.social !!!
Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP968/p...
What can #Victorian writers teach us about navigating misinformation today?
In this @britishacademy.bsky.social 10-Minute Talk, Professor Pablo Mukherjee explores 'Fake News and the Victorians: Literature in the First Information Age'
youtu.be/AMx73t-iDws
In this @britishacademy.bsky.social 10-Minute Talk, Professor Pablo Mukherjee explores 'Fake News and the Victorians: Literature in the First Information Age'
youtu.be/AMx73t-iDws
Fake News and the Victorians: Literature in the First Information Age
YouTube video by The British Academy
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December 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
What can #Victorian writers teach us about navigating misinformation today?
In this @britishacademy.bsky.social 10-Minute Talk, Professor Pablo Mukherjee explores 'Fake News and the Victorians: Literature in the First Information Age'
youtu.be/AMx73t-iDws
In this @britishacademy.bsky.social 10-Minute Talk, Professor Pablo Mukherjee explores 'Fake News and the Victorians: Literature in the First Information Age'
youtu.be/AMx73t-iDws
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📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers
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December 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
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First UK outing for Ice Shock in its exquisite Valley Press livery: an ice-sparkling and wide-ranging discussion with Lara Feigel at Blackwells, Oxford, tonight. Shout out to the fantastic audience for your questions! @karavanpress.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
First UK outing for Ice Shock in its exquisite Valley Press livery: an ice-sparkling and wide-ranging discussion with Lara Feigel at Blackwells, Oxford, tonight. Shout out to the fantastic audience for your questions! @karavanpress.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Professor Devyani Sharma takes a deep dive into the #accents of Britain.
Listen now at:
www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/12/devy...
Listen now at:
www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/12/devy...
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Professor Devyani Sharma takes a deep dive into the #accents of Britain.
Listen now at:
www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/12/devy...
Listen now at:
www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/12/devy...
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If you did not manage to attend the Bloomsbury Publishing / Oxford English Faculty Fantasy Summer School in September - all the podcasts are now available on our fantasy lit series! Enjoy: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/fanta...
If you did not manage to attend the Bloomsbury Publishing / Oxford English Faculty Fantasy Summer School in September - all the podcasts are now available on our fantasy lit series! Enjoy: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/fanta...
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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If you did not manage to attend the Bloomsbury Publishing / Oxford English Faculty Fantasy Summer School in September - all the podcasts are now available on our fantasy lit series! Enjoy: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/fanta...
If you did not manage to attend the Bloomsbury Publishing / Oxford English Faculty Fantasy Summer School in September - all the podcasts are now available on our fantasy lit series! Enjoy: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/fanta...
This year's Dorothy Whitelock Lecture is taking place next Wed, 3 Dec.
Prof Jane Roberts will speak on: #Guthlac: what the early #medieval records tell us
5.15pm at St Peter’s College chapel
@spcoxford.bsky.social
Join us in person or online. Book now >> dorothywhitelock.eventbrite.co.uk
Prof Jane Roberts will speak on: #Guthlac: what the early #medieval records tell us
5.15pm at St Peter’s College chapel
@spcoxford.bsky.social
Join us in person or online. Book now >> dorothywhitelock.eventbrite.co.uk
Dorothy Whitelock Lecture
Prof. Jane Roberts (KCL), “Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us”
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November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This year's Dorothy Whitelock Lecture is taking place next Wed, 3 Dec.
Prof Jane Roberts will speak on: #Guthlac: what the early #medieval records tell us
5.15pm at St Peter’s College chapel
@spcoxford.bsky.social
Join us in person or online. Book now >> dorothywhitelock.eventbrite.co.uk
Prof Jane Roberts will speak on: #Guthlac: what the early #medieval records tell us
5.15pm at St Peter’s College chapel
@spcoxford.bsky.social
Join us in person or online. Book now >> dorothywhitelock.eventbrite.co.uk
Why do you read (or not read)? Take part in this survey about #reading practices, experiences & habits & you can enter a prize draw to win one of six £100 prizes in book tokens. Responses will inform Prof Marion Turner’s research. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/why...
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Why do you read (or not read)? Take part in this survey about #reading practices, experiences & habits & you can enter a prize draw to win one of six £100 prizes in book tokens. Responses will inform Prof Marion Turner’s research. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/why...
We hope to see you at A.E. Stallings' Professor of #Poetry lecture this evening (26 Nov) at 5.30pm!
Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy
26 November at 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
ALL WELCOME! No booking required; just turn up!
#rhyme #poetry #professorofpoetry #oxfordevents
Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy
26 November at 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
ALL WELCOME! No booking required; just turn up!
#rhyme #poetry #professorofpoetry #oxfordevents
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We hope to see you at A.E. Stallings' Professor of #Poetry lecture this evening (26 Nov) at 5.30pm!
Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy
26 November at 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
ALL WELCOME! No booking required; just turn up!
#rhyme #poetry #professorofpoetry #oxfordevents
Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy
26 November at 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
ALL WELCOME! No booking required; just turn up!
#rhyme #poetry #professorofpoetry #oxfordevents
Professor Jane Roberts (University of London) will be giving the next Dorothy Whitelock Lecture on ‘Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us’.
3 December, 5.15pm
St Peter's College chapel, Oxford & online
#guthlac #medieval
All welcome! Register for your free ticket via Eventbrite:
3 December, 5.15pm
St Peter's College chapel, Oxford & online
#guthlac #medieval
All welcome! Register for your free ticket via Eventbrite:
Dorothy Whitelock Lecture
Prof. Jane Roberts (KCL), “Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us”
dorothywhitelock.eventbrite.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Don't miss the opportunity to hear our Professor of #poetry, A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social, talk in Oxford this week.
Rhyme as Experiment/ #Rhyme as Alchemy
26 November 2025, 5.30pm
Examination Schools, High St, Oxford
FREE! No booking required. ALL WELCOME!
#Oxfordevents #PoetrySky
Rhyme as Experiment/ #Rhyme as Alchemy
26 November 2025, 5.30pm
Examination Schools, High St, Oxford
FREE! No booking required. ALL WELCOME!
#Oxfordevents #PoetrySky
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Don't miss the opportunity to hear our Professor of #poetry, A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social, talk in Oxford this week.
Rhyme as Experiment/ #Rhyme as Alchemy
26 November 2025, 5.30pm
Examination Schools, High St, Oxford
FREE! No booking required. ALL WELCOME!
#Oxfordevents #PoetrySky
Rhyme as Experiment/ #Rhyme as Alchemy
26 November 2025, 5.30pm
Examination Schools, High St, Oxford
FREE! No booking required. ALL WELCOME!
#Oxfordevents #PoetrySky
There's still time to register for our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar on ROMEO AND JULIET.
All welcome! Emma Smith & guest Hannah August will discuss the play, followed by a Q&A.
1 Dec at 6pm
Online via Zoom
#romeoandjuliet
Free but booking required:
All welcome! Emma Smith & guest Hannah August will discuss the play, followed by a Q&A.
1 Dec at 6pm
Online via Zoom
#romeoandjuliet
Free but booking required:
English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Romeo and Juliet
In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Romeo and Juliet from Oxford World's Classics.
shakespeare-webinar-romeo-juliet.eventbrite.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
There's still time to register for our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar on ROMEO AND JULIET.
All welcome! Emma Smith & guest Hannah August will discuss the play, followed by a Q&A.
1 Dec at 6pm
Online via Zoom
#romeoandjuliet
Free but booking required:
All welcome! Emma Smith & guest Hannah August will discuss the play, followed by a Q&A.
1 Dec at 6pm
Online via Zoom
#romeoandjuliet
Free but booking required:
Congratulations to Professor Elleke Boehmer who has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy @humanitiesau.bsky.social.
@oxhumanities.bsky.social
@oxhumanities.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Congratulations to Professor Elleke Boehmer who has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy @humanitiesau.bsky.social.
@oxhumanities.bsky.social
@oxhumanities.bsky.social
If you can't wait until our next Professor of Poetry lecture on 26 Nov to hear A.E. Stallings talk about poetry then why not go along to this event tomorrow (21 Nov) with special guest Ernest Hilbert at St Edmund Hall. All welcome!
www.everseradio.com/a-e-stalling...
www.everseradio.com/a-e-stalling...
A. E. Stallings Reads with Ernest Hilbert at Oxford University | E-Verse Radio
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November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If you can't wait until our next Professor of Poetry lecture on 26 Nov to hear A.E. Stallings talk about poetry then why not go along to this event tomorrow (21 Nov) with special guest Ernest Hilbert at St Edmund Hall. All welcome!
www.everseradio.com/a-e-stalling...
www.everseradio.com/a-e-stalling...
Prof Paulina Kewes & Dr Frederick Smith have co-authored an article about how the papacy dealt with the excommunication of Henry VIII which features in the latest issue of History Today.
Did the protracted excommunication process make it easier for Henry to proceed with his Reformation?
#HenryVIII
Did the protracted excommunication process make it easier for Henry to proceed with his Reformation?
#HenryVIII
#HenryVIII’s break with Rome was a watershed moment for England and for Christendom. Did the papacy have itself to blame?
🔒 Paulina Kewes and Frederick Smith’s cover story is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
🔒 Paulina Kewes and Frederick Smith’s cover story is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
The Excommunication of Henry VIII
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November 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Prof Paulina Kewes & Dr Frederick Smith have co-authored an article about how the papacy dealt with the excommunication of Henry VIII which features in the latest issue of History Today.
Did the protracted excommunication process make it easier for Henry to proceed with his Reformation?
#HenryVIII
Did the protracted excommunication process make it easier for Henry to proceed with his Reformation?
#HenryVIII
Prof Santanu Das has recorded a series of videos about his research with EXPeditions as part of their Philip #Leverhulme Prize Collection.
Explore his research on:
Rethinking history, war & #empire
Touch & intimacy
Sea literature: from sail to steam
Find out more on the #EXPeditions website:
Explore his research on:
Rethinking history, war & #empire
Touch & intimacy
Sea literature: from sail to steam
Find out more on the #EXPeditions website:
Santanu Das
I am a professor of modern literature and culture at University of Oxford and a senior fellow at All Souls College. My work focuses on early 20th-century literature and culture, and I am especially in...
www.joinexpeditions.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Prof Santanu Das has recorded a series of videos about his research with EXPeditions as part of their Philip #Leverhulme Prize Collection.
Explore his research on:
Rethinking history, war & #empire
Touch & intimacy
Sea literature: from sail to steam
Find out more on the #EXPeditions website:
Explore his research on:
Rethinking history, war & #empire
Touch & intimacy
Sea literature: from sail to steam
Find out more on the #EXPeditions website:
Join us on 26 November for A.E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry lecture on 'Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy'.
26 Nov at 5.30pm
Examination Schools
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
#poetry #TeamEnglish @oxpoetrylibrary.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social
26 Nov at 5.30pm
Examination Schools
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
#poetry #TeamEnglish @oxpoetrylibrary.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Join us on 26 November for A.E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry lecture on 'Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy'.
26 Nov at 5.30pm
Examination Schools
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
#poetry #TeamEnglish @oxpoetrylibrary.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social
26 Nov at 5.30pm
Examination Schools
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
#poetry #TeamEnglish @oxpoetrylibrary.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social
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🕯️ Santanu Das, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at @ox.ac.uk, @engfac.bsky.social, highlights the essential need to acknowledge the millions of men of color who served in WW1, placing their stories back in history.
#PLPEXPeditions
#PLPEXPeditions
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🕯️ Santanu Das, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at @ox.ac.uk, @engfac.bsky.social, highlights the essential need to acknowledge the millions of men of color who served in WW1, placing their stories back in history.
#PLPEXPeditions
#PLPEXPeditions
The latest issue of A.E. Stallings' Echolocations #poetry newsletter is now live!
This issue explores Karen Solie’s “Meadowlark” from Wellwater, "a mostly unrhymed sonnet, that seems to place itself somewhere between Shelley’s ethereal “blithe spirit,” and John Clare’s more grounded skylark."
This issue explores Karen Solie’s “Meadowlark” from Wellwater, "a mostly unrhymed sonnet, that seems to place itself somewhere between Shelley’s ethereal “blithe spirit,” and John Clare’s more grounded skylark."
Echolocations: Reflections on Poems by A.E Stallings (Issue 5)
www.english.ox.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The latest issue of A.E. Stallings' Echolocations #poetry newsletter is now live!
This issue explores Karen Solie’s “Meadowlark” from Wellwater, "a mostly unrhymed sonnet, that seems to place itself somewhere between Shelley’s ethereal “blithe spirit,” and John Clare’s more grounded skylark."
This issue explores Karen Solie’s “Meadowlark” from Wellwater, "a mostly unrhymed sonnet, that seems to place itself somewhere between Shelley’s ethereal “blithe spirit,” and John Clare’s more grounded skylark."
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Talking about ICE SHOCK in Cape Town recently.
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Talking about ICE SHOCK in Cape Town recently.
Join us to explore the new Oxford World's Classics edition of Romeo & Juliet in our next #Shakespeare webinar:
1 December
6 - 7.15pm
Online via Zoom
With Professor Emma Smith & Dr Hannah August.
All welcome! Free but booking required. #TeamEnglish shakespeare-webinar-romeo-juliet.eventbrite.co.uk
1 December
6 - 7.15pm
Online via Zoom
With Professor Emma Smith & Dr Hannah August.
All welcome! Free but booking required. #TeamEnglish shakespeare-webinar-romeo-juliet.eventbrite.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Join us to explore the new Oxford World's Classics edition of Romeo & Juliet in our next #Shakespeare webinar:
1 December
6 - 7.15pm
Online via Zoom
With Professor Emma Smith & Dr Hannah August.
All welcome! Free but booking required. #TeamEnglish shakespeare-webinar-romeo-juliet.eventbrite.co.uk
1 December
6 - 7.15pm
Online via Zoom
With Professor Emma Smith & Dr Hannah August.
All welcome! Free but booking required. #TeamEnglish shakespeare-webinar-romeo-juliet.eventbrite.co.uk