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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”
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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!
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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
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🔒 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...
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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."
Reposted by Faculty of English, University of Oxford
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
This evening (6 November): Don't miss the fourth and final 2025 Clarendon Lecture by Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton).
Decolonizing English: An Incomplete Project
6 Nov at 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
Followed by wine reception. All welcome!
Decolonizing English: An Incomplete Project
6 Nov at 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
Followed by wine reception. All welcome!
Decolonizing English: An Incomplete Project (Clarendon Lecture 4 by Professor Simon Gikandi)
english.web.ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This evening (6 November): Don't miss the fourth and final 2025 Clarendon Lecture by Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton).
Decolonizing English: An Incomplete Project
6 Nov at 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
Followed by wine reception. All welcome!
Decolonizing English: An Incomplete Project
6 Nov at 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
Followed by wine reception. All welcome!
To add to our list of wonderful public lectures this term, we're delighted to announce our next Professor of #Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social
Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy
26 Nov, 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy
26 Nov, 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
To add to our list of wonderful public lectures this term, we're delighted to announce our next Professor of #Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social
Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy
26 Nov, 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy
26 Nov, 5.30pm
Examination Schools, Oxford
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
Prof Simon Gikandi will give the 3rd Clarendon Lecture this evening (4 Nov) at 5.30pm on 'The Other Victorians: What If Jane Eyre was a Missionary?'.
#JaneEyre #ClarendonLectures
The 4th and final lecture of the 2025 Clarendon Lecture series will be on Thursday, 6 Nov.
All welcome!
#JaneEyre #ClarendonLectures
The 4th and final lecture of the 2025 Clarendon Lecture series will be on Thursday, 6 Nov.
All welcome!
The Other Victorians: What If Jane Eyre was a Missionary? (Clarendon Lecture 3 by Professor Simon Gikandi)
english.web.ox.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Prof Simon Gikandi will give the 3rd Clarendon Lecture this evening (4 Nov) at 5.30pm on 'The Other Victorians: What If Jane Eyre was a Missionary?'.
#JaneEyre #ClarendonLectures
The 4th and final lecture of the 2025 Clarendon Lecture series will be on Thursday, 6 Nov.
All welcome!
#JaneEyre #ClarendonLectures
The 4th and final lecture of the 2025 Clarendon Lecture series will be on Thursday, 6 Nov.
All welcome!
There's still time to register for this evening's Shakespeare webinar on Henry VIII with Prof Emma Smith and Dr Laura Jayne Wright.
We look forward to welcoming back our webinar regulars along with any newcomers!
ALL WELCOME! Free, but booking required.
#Shakespeare #HenryVIII
We look forward to welcoming back our webinar regulars along with any newcomers!
ALL WELCOME! Free, but booking required.
#Shakespeare #HenryVIII
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
There's still time to register for this evening's Shakespeare webinar on Henry VIII with Prof Emma Smith and Dr Laura Jayne Wright.
We look forward to welcoming back our webinar regulars along with any newcomers!
ALL WELCOME! Free, but booking required.
#Shakespeare #HenryVIII
We look forward to welcoming back our webinar regulars along with any newcomers!
ALL WELCOME! Free, but booking required.
#Shakespeare #HenryVIII
Join the Always Take Notes team for a live podcast recording with Helen Fielding, author of “Bridget Jones’s Diary”.
17 November at 5.30pm
Sheldonian Theatre
All welcome. Book your ticket via Eventbrite.
helen-fielding-always-take-notes.eventbrite.co.uk
17 November at 5.30pm
Sheldonian Theatre
All welcome. Book your ticket via Eventbrite.
helen-fielding-always-take-notes.eventbrite.co.uk
Helen Fielding in conversation with the Always Take Notes podcast
Join the author of “Bridget Jones’s Diary” for a live podcast recording.
helen-fielding-always-take-notes.eventbrite.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Join the Always Take Notes team for a live podcast recording with Helen Fielding, author of “Bridget Jones’s Diary”.
17 November at 5.30pm
Sheldonian Theatre
All welcome. Book your ticket via Eventbrite.
helen-fielding-always-take-notes.eventbrite.co.uk
17 November at 5.30pm
Sheldonian Theatre
All welcome. Book your ticket via Eventbrite.
helen-fielding-always-take-notes.eventbrite.co.uk
Don't miss the opportunity to hear Prof Emma Smith discuss King Henry VIII in our next #Shakespeare webinar.
She'll be joined by Dr Laura Jayne Wright to explore the new Oxford World's Classics' edition of the play followed by a Q&A.
ALL WELCOME! #HenryVIII
She'll be joined by Dr Laura Jayne Wright to explore the new Oxford World's Classics' edition of the play followed by a Q&A.
ALL WELCOME! #HenryVIII
English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: King Henry VIII
In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of King Henry VIII from Oxford World's Classics.
shakespeare-webinar-king-henry-viii.eventbrite.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Don't miss the opportunity to hear Prof Emma Smith discuss King Henry VIII in our next #Shakespeare webinar.
She'll be joined by Dr Laura Jayne Wright to explore the new Oxford World's Classics' edition of the play followed by a Q&A.
ALL WELCOME! #HenryVIII
She'll be joined by Dr Laura Jayne Wright to explore the new Oxford World's Classics' edition of the play followed by a Q&A.
ALL WELCOME! #HenryVIII
THIS EVENING (30 October) at 5.30pm, Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton) will be giving the 2nd Clarendon Lecture:
Translating English: On #Shakespeare and #Bunyan in Africa
5.30pm
Examination Schools
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
Translating English: On #Shakespeare and #Bunyan in Africa
5.30pm
Examination Schools
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
Translating English: On Shakespeare and Bunyan in Africa (Clarendon Lecture 2 by Professor Simon Gikandi)
english.web.ox.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
THIS EVENING (30 October) at 5.30pm, Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton) will be giving the 2nd Clarendon Lecture:
Translating English: On #Shakespeare and #Bunyan in Africa
5.30pm
Examination Schools
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
Translating English: On #Shakespeare and #Bunyan in Africa
5.30pm
Examination Schools
ALL WELCOME! No booking required.
We have so many exciting events in the next few weeks!
As well as the #Clarendon Lectures with Prof Simon Gikandi, we have a #Shakespeare webinar on King Henry VIII, this term's Professor of #Poetry talk and events with Helen Fielding & Geoff Bird.
More details at:
english.web.ox.ac.uk/events
As well as the #Clarendon Lectures with Prof Simon Gikandi, we have a #Shakespeare webinar on King Henry VIII, this term's Professor of #Poetry talk and events with Helen Fielding & Geoff Bird.
More details at:
english.web.ox.ac.uk/events
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
We have so many exciting events in the next few weeks!
As well as the #Clarendon Lectures with Prof Simon Gikandi, we have a #Shakespeare webinar on King Henry VIII, this term's Professor of #Poetry talk and events with Helen Fielding & Geoff Bird.
More details at:
english.web.ox.ac.uk/events
As well as the #Clarendon Lectures with Prof Simon Gikandi, we have a #Shakespeare webinar on King Henry VIII, this term's Professor of #Poetry talk and events with Helen Fielding & Geoff Bird.
More details at:
english.web.ox.ac.uk/events
Don't miss the opportunity to see Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton) give the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2025 on 'English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline'.
The first lecture is THIS EVENING (28 Oct) at 5.30pm at Examination Schools, Oxford.
All welcome!
The first lecture is THIS EVENING (28 Oct) at 5.30pm at Examination Schools, Oxford.
All welcome!
English in the (post) Colonial Archive (Clarendon Lecture 1 by Professor Simon Gikandi)
english.web.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Don't miss the opportunity to see Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton) give the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2025 on 'English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline'.
The first lecture is THIS EVENING (28 Oct) at 5.30pm at Examination Schools, Oxford.
All welcome!
The first lecture is THIS EVENING (28 Oct) at 5.30pm at Examination Schools, Oxford.
All welcome!
To mark #BlackHistoryMonth 2025, members of the English Faculty @ox.ac.uk got together to discuss Diana Evans's 'I Want to Talk to You: And Other Conversations', a collection of essays & journalism.
#BHM #DianaEvans
Watch the discussion now >>
youtu.be/sTifWRqTi64
#BHM #DianaEvans
Watch the discussion now >>
youtu.be/sTifWRqTi64
Book discussion on Diana Evans's 'I Want to Talk to You: And Other Conversations'
YouTube video by Faculty of English, University of Oxford
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October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
To mark #BlackHistoryMonth 2025, members of the English Faculty @ox.ac.uk got together to discuss Diana Evans's 'I Want to Talk to You: And Other Conversations', a collection of essays & journalism.
#BHM #DianaEvans
Watch the discussion now >>
youtu.be/sTifWRqTi64
#BHM #DianaEvans
Watch the discussion now >>
youtu.be/sTifWRqTi64
There's still time to get your free tickets for this event on Wednesday with #radio & #podcast producer Geoff Bird:
"Listen. Time Passes": Literature and Radio, a conversation with Geoff Bird
29 October at 5.15
Trinity College, Oxford
All welcome!
"Listen. Time Passes": Literature and Radio, a conversation with Geoff Bird
29 October at 5.15
Trinity College, Oxford
All welcome!
"Listen. Time Passes": Literature and Radio, a conversation with Geoff Bird
Exploring the relationship between written and spoken language, how to turn academic research into radio, and how to forge a career in audio
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM