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...

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!

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:

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/...

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

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 👀🔥🐈‍⬛

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

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...

We'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!

An opportunity by the University of Oxford’s Intersectional Humanities research hub for recent graduates and ECRs! Please share widely. @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social #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. 👏👏👏

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 📚👻

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!

Congratulations to Corinne Clark @somervillecollege.bsky.social who has been awarded this year’s Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize for her poem ‘1929-’. Sam Collier and Isabella Cho were runners-up for their poems ‘On a couple good concerts’ and ‘Aphid Monody’. Find out more >>

There's still time to register for the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference on 23-25 July at the University of Oxford. See the full programme and register on our website: www.english.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025 #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC @bavs-uk.bsky.social

You can now register to attend the Oxford Bloomsbury #Fantasy Literature Summer School ONLINE this September. Register now to learn more about the past, present & future of the fantasy genre from leading scholars, writers & publishers. Find out more and see the full programme of speakers >

Today! 'Achilles at Lincoln', in which Simon Whedbee and I discuss a @lincoln.ox.ac.uk manuscript inc. a heavily glossed copy of Statius' Achilleid. From Lincoln's good-looking founder (really!) to his dashing humanist nephew, to some intense medieval glosses. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...

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!

NEW VIDEO ALERT! You can now watch our recent English Faculty / OWC Shakespeare webinars on 'The Tempest' & 'Titus Andronicus' on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/playlist?lis... The webinar series will now have a break for summer but will return on 1 Sept to explore 'The Comedy of Errors'

Don't miss @oxfordcct.bsky.social Translation Day on 14 June. So many wonderful events taking place, incl. a creative workshop with English DPhil student Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili, a discussion on Starting Out in Translation Studies with Dr Minna Jeffery & an In Conversation with Polly Barton!

Congratulations to Professor Siân Grønlie who was highly commended at the 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards in the Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion category for their work on developing a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion at St Anne’s College and the English Faculty.

We're delighted to announce the shortlist for the Oxford/42 New Writing Prize: Edelle Dwyer - Ascension Keelan Gallagher – Billy Balaclava Ed Hancox – Outraged Steve Mellen – Ask The Ghosts Abir Mohammad – Bhaijaan Megan Shandley – Roar, Bellona The winner will be announced on 16 June.

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

We're delighted to announce that Professor Devyani Sharma has been appointed to the Professorship of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, a post endowed by News UK.

Last chance to book tickets for this evening's talk by John Guillory on ‘Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby’. 21 May at 5.15pm T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College special-lecture-john-guillory.eventbrite.co.uk

THIS WEDNESDAY (21 May) Don't miss the opportunity to hear John Guillory talk at Merton College on ‘Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby’. #JohnGuillory #GreatGatsby #Booksky All welcome. Booking required via Eventbrite.

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

Elleke Boehmer has just arrived in the country - she and her latest novel, ICE SHOCK, proudly published by Karavan Press, are making their debut at the FLF this weekend! @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social

Book at Lunchtime: Sally Bayley. Performance and Conversation. Wednesday 14 May, 12.30pm Lunch, 12.45pm - 1.45pm performance and discussion Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford @oxhumanities.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social torch.ox.ac.uk/event/book-a...

For our final Ertegun Futures talk this year we welcome Professor Bart Van Es on May 20, 5.15 pm @torchoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @engfac.bsky.social All welcome! Tickets are free but must be booked torch.ox.ac.uk/event/true-f... We apologise that our seminar space has no disabled access

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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!