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Do join me and @callanid.bsky.social to talk buck baskets, feisty wives and small town Tudor life👇
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Santanu Das discusses how archives and texts depicting queer maritime desire are “shaped by fate and ban". Part of OCLW's Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers' Programme. 21 Oct, 17:30, Wolfson College. All welcome! Register: buff.ly/LCrFQ8C
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
THIS MONDAY (6 Oct at 6pm): Join Prof Emma Smith for our next #Shakespeare webinar! This time we'll be exploring the new OWC edition of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR with Dr Callan Davies. All welcome! Free but booking required. shakespeare-webinar-merry-wives.eventbrite.co.uk
01.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One story among many—Vona Groarke, Ireland’s Professor of Poetry, & Kate Kennedy on representing “many Ellens” in Groarke's ‘Hereafter’. 14 Oct, 5:30–7:00pm. buff.ly/Lew9cvR @engfac.bsky.social
01.10.2025 13:04 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to our new home: The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre!
The Schwarzman Centre will bring together Oxford University's Humanities faculties for the first time, alongside a new Bodleian Humanities Library & state-of-the-art teaching & performance facilities.
www.schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk
Congratulations to Siân Grønlie who has been awarded the title of Professor in this year's Recognition of Distinction Awards at the University of Oxford. english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/reco...
24.09.2025 08:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our #Shakespeare webinar series continues! Join us on 6 Oct at 6pm to delve into the new OWC edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social &
@callanjd.bsky.social
All welcome! Register now via Eventbrite & you will be sent a Zoom link before the event. #teamenglish
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!
Register for upcoming webinars via our website: www.english.ox.ac.uk/shakespeare-...
16.09.2025 14:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did you miss our recent #Shakespeare webinar on The Comedy of Errors? Watch the recording to catch up.
And don't forget to register for the next webinar on 6 Oct where Emma Smith will be exploring The Merry Wives of Windsor with Callan Davies. All welcome! youtu.be/l5OTG2OL2Hc
How true is memoir? Join @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social & Kate Kennedy as they probe truth, memory, and invention in life-writing. 13 Oct, 5:30–7:00pm, Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College. Free, all welcome. buff.ly/WLdDnBr
#LifeWriting #Oxford @engfac.bsky.social
Are you attending the Oxford Uni Open Day on Friday, 19 Sept? Join us at the English Faculty for taster lectures on 'Science and Victorian Fiction' and 'Was J. R. R. #Tolkien writing Fantasy?' plus info sessions & Q&As with our student ambassadors.
All welcome! #OxOpenDays
We'll be opening the doors to the English Faculty on 19 September for our last Open Day in the St Cross Building before we move the Schwarzman Centre!
Join us for:
- Taster lectures
- Information sessions
- Student Q&As
#UniOpenDay #OxfordUniOpenDay
Full programme available on our website:
Subscribe to get the newsletter in your inbox: english.web.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...
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We're delighted to announce a new issue of A.E Stallings' Echolocations newsletter.
In this issue she explores two poems from the Summer 2025 issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social: Curse the Mediterranean, my Enemy by @jonnyteklit.bsky.social and Eulogy for Dada (Who Loved to Waltz) by M. I. Devine.
It was great to hear another Oxford English Faculty member on Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes series on BBC Radio 4 today!
Prof Marion Turner joined Ian to discuss a crude joke from #Chaucer's Summoner's Tale attacking hypocrisy. You can catch-up on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Photograph of bookcases over entranceway.
Excited to have begun a new role for this year leading the courses in material texts for the Oxford Master’s strands in modern literature. Very much looking forward to this role spanning 1830-present, and incorporating new resources and methods both material and digital. @engfac.bsky.social
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Professor Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social featured on yesterday's episode of Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes on BBC Radio 4 discussing 'Piers Plowman', a 14th-century poem about the state of the nation.
Listen on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
What a brilliant chat! I'm buzzing with ideas...congrats @irburrows.bsky.social! You can see Amber was super intrigued! She had a question about cats in The Comedy of Errors but didn't get a chance to ask! @oldfortunatus.bsky.social 👀🔥🐈⬛
01.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
LAST CHANCE to sign up for today's #Shakespeare webinar on The Comedy of Errors. Join us to delve deeper into one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays and learn how we might approach it differently in the twenty-first century. FREE & all welcome! shakespeare-webinar-comedy-of-errors.eventbrite.co.uk
01.09.2025 10:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This term Oxford's @engfac.bsky.social and Exeter College are hosting a seminar series on 'The Weird and the Wonderful'. Open to the public and free to attend (talks and registration in the link below). Topics range from Arthur Machen to Game of Thrones: english.web.ox.ac.uk/seminar-seri...
01.09.2025 08:38 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1We're going up against Sun, Sea and Selling Houses on Channel 4 this Monday at 6pm, but @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and I have Shakespeare in our [online] corner (and - spoiler alert - The Comedy of Errors features both sea *and* houses). Do come and join us if you're free!
28.08.2025 10:07 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
An opportunity by the University of Oxford’s Intersectional Humanities research hub for recent graduates and ECRs!
Please share widely.
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#CFP
Join us online on 1 September at 6pm to explore #Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors' with Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and Ian Burrows @irburrows.bsky.social. This webinar is free and open to all.
Prepare to learn more about one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays! #TheComedyofErrors
Congratulations to Prof Rachel Burns whose book 'A History of Old English Verse Layout: Poetics on the Page' (ARC, 2024) was awarded the ISSEME Best First Monograph Prize!
Judges said: "Burns' important study has the potential to fundamentally change how we think about Old English verse layout."
Congratulations to Prof Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social who has been elected a Fellow of the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
Prof Ballaster is one of 58 Fellows from UK universities elected this year in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities & social sciences.
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The #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference kicked off with the ECR/PGR Professionalisation Day @engfac.bsky.social - an insightful pedagogy & careers panel, a fun Victorian Parlour Games session, productive peer review workshops & a fantastic séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 📚👻
22.07.2025 21:37 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Arja Salafranca reviews ICE SHOCK by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social for Business Day
www.businesslive.co.za/bd/life/book...
Astronaut William Anders' iconic photo #Earthrise was the starting point for a recent one-day conference at Oxford’s English Faculty, entitled 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550–1968'.
Read a blog on the event: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/befo...
Congratulations to the amazing team at the @engfac.bsky.social Library @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social on their final day before moving to the New Humanities Library in the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Sad to be leaving, but excited to be making history in the new library!
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