Faculty of English, University of Oxford
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- Our Shakespeare webinar series with Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social continues on 2 June when we will be exploring 'Julius Caesar' with Brandi K. Adams. When: 2 June at 6pm Where: Online via Zoom #Shakespeare #JuliusCaesar #Theatre Please join us! Get your free ticket >>
- Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968 This one-day interdisciplinary symposium will explore the theme of global imagining in literature and visual culture of the “modern age,” from the Copernican revolution up to the “earthrise” photographs of the 1960s.
- Congratulations to the winners of the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition! Faculty member Dr Anna Nickerson, who was one of the judges, commented: "It was a pleasure to read so much accomplished new verse-writing"
- Special guest John Guillory will be giving a lecture at Merton College on 21 May on ‘Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby’ Register for your free ticket via Eventbrite. #greatgatsby #booksky
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- To mark the 80th anniversary of #VEDay, Their Finest Hour project is sharing a collection of newly unearthed stories & artefacts – gathered not from official archives, but from kitchen drawers, family photo albums & attic boxes across the UK and beyond. Browse the collection on their website >>
- We're counting down the days until our next Professor of #Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social 'Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry' 9 May at 5.30pm Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford ALL WELCOME! No booking required; just turn up! #Poetrysky
- THIS EVENING (5 May at 6pm) - Join #Shakespeare experts Emma Smith and Harry R. McCarthy for this month's English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare webinar. They will discuss the new OWC edition of Titus Andronicus. All welcome! #TheatreSky #TitusAndronicus #BookSky
- One week to go until the next Professor of #poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings. 'Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry' 9 May, 5.30pm Examination Schools, High St, Oxford ALL WELCOME! No booking required. @aestallings.bsky.social #poetrysky #oxfordevents
- Congratulations to Renée Orleans-Lindsay, who has been awarded this year’s Shelley-Mills prize for her essay ‘No-place, no roots, no mother: Subversive maps and family trees in The Tempest and Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother’.
- Don't miss tomorrow's public lecture on 'The Morrigan Revisited' by Professor Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol). The #Morrigan is the best-known goddess figure in medieval Irish literature next to Bridget, and in many ways epitomizes the dark aspects of Celtic female divinity. All welcome!
- Congratulations to Professor Lloyd Pratt who has been awarded a three-year @leverhulme.ac.uk Major Research Fellowship to complete a book project titled ‘Other People’s Emersons’. #Leverhulme #Emerson #RalphWaldoEmerson
- Are you planning on seeing a production of Titus Andronicus this spring / summer? Why not swot up on the play with our OWC #Shakespeare webinar on Monday, 5 May with experts Emma Smith & Harry R. McCarthy. 5 May at 6pm Online via Zoom FREE and all welcome! #TitusAndronicus #TheatreSky
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- THIS FRIDAY 2 May at 5pm - Join us for a free lecture on 'The Morrigan Revisited' by Professor Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol). The #Morrigan is the best-known goddess figure in #medieval Irish literature next to Bridget, representing sorcery, sexuality, shapeshifting and war. All welcome!
- We're excited to see that @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social & @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social's research on 'more-than-human stories of Antarctica' is one of the exhibits at the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase. Visitors will be able to craft their own 'more-than-human' story via a story cube.
- We're delighted to announce the programme for our 2025 Summer Showcase! Taking place on 20-21 June, this year's free festival of ideas returns with interactive exhibits and workshops, inspiring performances and screenings, and fascinating talks. Book now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...
- SAVE THE DATE for the next Professor of #poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings. 'Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry' 📆9 May 2025 at 5.30pm 📍Examination Schools, Oxford No booking required. This is a public lecture and all are welcome! #poetrycommunity #poetrysky
- Join us on 2 May for the 2025 O'Donnell Lecture by Prof Ronald Hutton to learn more about the #Morrigan - a goddess figure in medieval Irish literature who in many ways epitomizes the dark aspects of Celtic female divinity, representing sorcery, sexuality, shapeshifting & war. All welcome!
- Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968 A one-day symposium on 24 June 2025 which aims to investigate how and why artists, writers, and other thinkers imagined the earth as a whole before the age of space travel and neoliberal globalisation. Find out more >>
- We're delighted to share a recording of Stephen Fry's talk as Visiting Professor of Creative Media at the English Faculty. In his talk, Sir Stephen shares how he was 'bitten by language' & encourages us all to play with words & 'succumb to their beauty'. #StephenFry #words #language
- Call for papers now open for the Oxford English Graduate Conference 2025 on the theme of 'Artifice'. Submissions due by 25 April (deadline extended). More details 👇 #AcademicSky #Artifice #EnglishLiterature #Cfp
- Time's running out to book your free ticket for this evening's English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar. Delve into The #Tempest with Emma Smith and Lauren Working. 7 April at 6pm - 7.15pm Online via Zoom All welcome! #TeamEnglish #Cpd #BookSky
- Congratulations to English undergraduate Elizabeth Histed @hmcoxford.bsky.social who has been awarded a Keith Fletcher Memorial Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement. The awards celebrate the perseverance, commitment, and academic excellence of Access to HE students.
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- Professor Erica McAlpine's poem 'Digging the Well' has been chosen as #poem of the week in the Guardian. It's described as as 'A breezy but ambiguous allegory [which] arranges its symbols with appealing wit' #PoetrySky
- Are you teaching or studying The #Tempest? Or are you just interested in finding out more about the play? Join us for our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar on 7 April at 6pm with Emma Smith and Lauren Working. #TeamEnglish #CPD #BookSky #TheatreSky
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- It's great to see the English Faculty well represented at this year's Oxford Literary Festival! Our Faculty members and alumni will be speaking at the festival on a wide variety of topics, from C.S. Lewis and Jane Austen to murder mysteries, ghosts, poetry, life writing, Tolkien & more!
- Huge congratulations to English Faculty alumna @nussaibah.bsky.social whose book Fundamentally has been longlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social 2025. You can read about Nussaibah's 'circuitous route' between the Oxford English Faculty & her first book deal on our website.
- Our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare webinar is on 7 April at 6pm. This month we will be exploring The #Tempest with Dr Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social & Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social. The webinars are free and open to all! Book now >>
- It is with great sadness that we report the news that Professor Vincent Gillespie died at home on 13 March. Read more about Professor Gillespie's life as an inspiring scholar, a warm and caring tutor, and a much-loved colleague.
- Are you an aspiring novelist, playwright or screenwriter? There's still time to enter the Oxford/42 New Writing Prize. We're looking for talented new voices in fiction & welcome experimental writing as well as work that would appeal to a broad audience. Closing date=30 April. #BookSky #amwriting
- If you've read Percival Everett's 'James' and want to explore the novel further - don't miss our online book discussion with Oxford professors and students. #PercivalEverett #James #BookSky youtu.be/JQ0YkyWaTYw?...
- Another exciting DANSOX event is taking place THIS THURSDAY (20 March). Join Thomas Page Dances in the studio as they embark on an exciting new project exploring queer love and choreographic practice Free but booking required: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-process...
- We're delighted to see Oxford University holding the joint top spot for English Language and Literature in the QS World University Rankings 2025! Oxford has been at the top of the QS University rankings for English Language and Literature since 2016. #QSrankings
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- If you missed our March #Shakespeare webinar on the new Oxford World's Classics edition of Henry IV, Part 1 you can catch up now on our website. Browse upcoming webinars and scroll down to see recordings of past events. #HenryIV #TeamEnglish #EduSky
- An exciting new project led by Dr Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social has recovered never before seen text by Alfred #Tennyson using a combination of imaging techniques to remove crossings out, marks and ink blots. #poetry #AcademicBluesky #PoetrySky
- Our #Shakespeare webinar series continues on 7 April at 6pm. Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Dr Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social to discuss the new Oxford World's Classics edition of The #Tempest. All welcome! Register via Eventbrite:
- Congratulations to Professor Elleke Boehmer @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social who has accepted an invitation to become the next Patron of the Katherine Mansfield Society. "Katherine Mansfield has always been a model to me. The appointment is a great honour, and I will strive to do her memory justice."
- There's still time to submit your paper for the British Association for #Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference taking place at the University of Oxford on 23 - 25 July. Papers due by 17 March. #BAVS #VictorianStudies #CfP More details on our website >> www.english.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025
- Our virtual Open Day for state school pupils and teachers is this Saturday, 8 March from 10.30am - 2.30pm. Join us for taster lectures, admissions info, plus a Q&A with our undergraduates. Pls share! #teamenglish #EnglishLit #EduSky Register for your free place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-eng...
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- Final chance to register for this evening's #Shakespeare webinar on Henry IV, Part 1. This is a free event and all are welcome! Emma Smith will be in conversation with Indira Ghose about the new Oxford World's Classics edition of #HenryIV, Part 1. 3 March, 6-7.15pm Online via Zoom Register:
- Find out more about Henry IV, Part 1 in our next #Shakespeare webinar! 🗓️3 March at 6-7.15pm 💻Online via Zoom Emma Smith will be discussing the new Oxford World's Classics edition of Henry IV, Part 1 with Indira Ghose. FREE and all welcome! #HenryIV #EnglishLit
- Are you interested in #journalism? We're delighted to welcome Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social, the Guardian's Chief Sports Writer, to the English Faculty on 3 March. He'll discuss everything from the politics of sport to the changing nature of Britain’s media landscape with Prof David Taylor.
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- Huge congratulations to Professor Malachi McIntosh whose book 'Parables, Fables, Nightmares' won this year's Edge Hill Short Story Prize for Best Debut collection. Prof McIntosh commented: "I’m grateful, stunned, surprised & really thankful to everyone who helped bring the book into being."
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- Are you studying, teaching or simply interested in learning more about #Shakespeare? Our monthly Shakespeare webinar series in collaboration with Oxford World's Classics continues on Monday, 3 March at 6pm. This month we'll be exploring #HenryIV, Part 1 with Indira Ghose. All welcome! #TeamEnglish
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- TOMORROW (21 Feb) - please join us for the next Professor of Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social. This is a public lecture and all are welcome! No booking required. When? 5.30pm on 21 Feb Where? Examination Schools, Oxford #Cavafy #poetrylovers #Oxfordevents #PoetrySky
- We're excited to announce the Oxford-Bloomsbury Fantasy Summer School 2025. 3 days of talks on fantasy literature at Oxford. Attendance is free (but limited) so you need to apply for a space When: 23–25 Sept 2025 Where: Exeter College, Oxford #FantasyLiterature #WriteSky #FantasySky Find out more
- This #LGBTHistoryMonth you can explore related research and resources at the English Faculty on our website. www.english.ox.ac.uk/lgbt-history...
- CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July. Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
- Our next English Faculty / OWC #Shakespeare webinar will be on HENRY IV, PART 1 on 3 March at 6pm. Emma Smith will be joined by Indira Ghose to discuss the play and how we might approach it differently in the 21st century. Free and open to all! #HenryIV #CPD #TeamEnglish Register now!
