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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
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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
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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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
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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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
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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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
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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.
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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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
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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We're delighted to see the English Faculty at the top of two University league tables released this week.

Oxford has been ranked first for English in the Guardian University Guide 2026 and the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026!
September 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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We're delighted to announce the first ever winner of the Oxford / 42 New Writing Prize! Congratulations to Steve Mellen who was awarded the prize this evening in a ceremony at Magdalen College for his novel 'Ask the Ghosts'.

Congratulations to Steve and all those shortlisted!
June 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Don't miss our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar on

JULIUS CAESAR

with Emma Smith and Brandi K. Adams

2 June
6-7.15pm
Online via Zoom

All welcome! Register via Eventbrite: shakespeare-webinar-julius-caesar.eventbrite.co.uk

#juliuscaesar #historyplays
May 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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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
May 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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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
May 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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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!
May 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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!
April 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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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
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April 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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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
How do we distinguish between the artificial and the real? How does literature reshape and reinforce this distinction? From the formal constraints of Shakespeare’s sonnets to the metafiction of Nabokov’s Pale Fire to the magical realism of Garcia Marquez’s 100 Years of Solitude—artifice underpins the literary arts. As the antithesis to the natural or the real, both ‘artifice’ and its cognate ‘artificial’ concern deception, construction, and craftsmanship. Though artificial intelligence has recently permeated the term, the spectrum of artificiality in literature stretches well beyond that of twenty-first-century technological innovations. From mimetic theory to posthuman study, the category of artifice continually reinvents itself. We encourage students to engage with the concept of artifice as both a formal technique and a thematic lens that reveals the interplay between reality, representation, and illusion in literary works across genres and historical periods. We welcome individual proposals for 20-minute papers, sent as a 200-word abstract alongside an additional short bio of 100 words including the contributor's affiliation and research interests. We also encourage three-person panel proposals of 500 words with a short bio for each participant. Submission deadline is April 25th. Email oegcartifice2025@gmail.com.
April 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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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
February 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host this 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. #BAVS

See details: english.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025
February 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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We're delighted to welcome Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social, Chief Sports Writer for The Guardian, to the English Faculty on 3 March. He'll be in conversation w/ Prof David Taylor discussing everything from the politics of sport to the changing nature of Britain’s media landscape. All welcome!
February 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Less than 2 weeks to go until the next Professor of #Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings.

Join us on 21 Feb at 5.30pm in Examination Schools, Oxford to hear @aestallings.bsky.social talk on 'What These Ithakas Mean: #Cavafy, Translation, Influence, and Imitation'

All welcome! No booking required.
February 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Join us at Exams Schools on 21 February at 5.30pm for A.E. Stallings' @aestallings.bsky.social next Professor of #Poetry lecture on: 'What These Ithakas Mean: #Cavafy, Translation, Influence, and Imitation'. All welcome! No booking required.

#Poetrysky #Cavafy

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January 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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24 January at 3pm - Prof Ato Quayson will be giving the Bayley Lecture on 'Ethnography of the Oikos: Space-Making Trauma and Healing in #ToniMorrison'.

The lecture will turn to the concept of oikos drawing from Greek tragedy and apply it to three of Toni Morrison’s female characters.
January 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Let the Oxford English Faculty help with your new year resolutions:
1) Learn about poetry with A.E. Stallings' newsletters
2) Brush up on Shakespeare with monthly webinars with Prof Emma Smith
3) Take on a writing challenge & enter our storytelling competition

#PoetrySky #BookSky
Links below👇
December 20, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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We're delighted to announce that registration to Stephen Fry's lecture in Oxford on 24 January 2025 will open on MONDAY (16 Dec) at 12 noon. Tickets are FREE but likely to sell out very quickly! #stephenfry

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December 13, 2024 at 12:20 PM