🕯️ 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

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."

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

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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!

Don't miss the opportunity to hear Helen Fielding in conversation with the Always Take Notes podcast on 17 Nov at the beautiful Sheldonian Theatre. Helen is the author of Bridget Jones’s Diary which has sold more than 15m copies worldwide. Book now >>

"Ellmann’s 'Joyce' fixed the image of a generation.” Join Zachary Leader & Hermione Lee to discuss the power of literary biography. 🗓 11/11/2025, 17:30, Wolfson College 🔗 shorturl.at/jskOQ @engfac.bsky.social

Dr Michael Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social introduces the Recovery of Literary Manuscripts project, which is developing new digital techniques to recover lost lines of literature. youtube.com/watch?v=IvIq... #MultispectralImaging #Literature #Tennyson #Shelley

"Listen. Time Passes": Literature and Radio, a conversation with Geoff Bird Exploring the relationship between written & spoken language, how to turn academic research into radio, & how to forge a career in audio 29 October at 5.15pm Levine Lecture Theatre, Trinity College All welcome! Register 👇

One week today on 28 October, we will welcome Professor Simon Gikandi to give the 2025 Clarendon Lectures on 'English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline'. When: 28 Oct, 30 Oct, 4 Nov & 6 Nov Where: Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford All welcome! No booking required. #TeamEnglish

Tonight: Is there a specifically ‘maritime closet’? Join Santanu Das as he explores the history and writing of queer lives at sea. 21 Oct, 17:30. All welcome! Registration: buff.ly/LCrFQ8C @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

Our OWC/English Faculty #Shakespeare webinar series continues! Next up, Henry VIII on 3 Nov at 6pm. Join @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @laurajaynewright.bsky.social to explore the play & how we might approach it differently in the twenty-first century. All welcome! FREE but registration required

Congratulations to Shelley Williams who has been awarded the Swapna Dev Memorial Book Prize for her thesis on 'Chaucer Pictures the Cosmos: Materiality, Science, and Astral Poetics'. The prize is awarded for the best doctoral thesis in English literature at the University of Oxford. #Chaucer

We're delighted to support the Always Take Notes podcast with this exciting event! Join hosts Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd on 17 November at the Sheldonian Theatre at 5.30pm for a live podcast recording with Helen Fielding, author of 'Bridget Jones’s Diary'. Book tickets via Eventbrite >>

We're delighted to welcome Prof Simon Gikandi (Princeton) to give the Clarendon Lectures for 2025 on 'English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline'. Join us for the first lecture on 28 Oct on 'English in the (post) Colonial Archive'. All welcome! See details on our website >>

Are you interested in a career in audio? Do you want to find out more about turning academic research into radio? Don't miss this event with #radio & #podcast producer Geoff Bird. When: 29 October at 5.15pm Where: Trinity College, Oxford All welcome! Free but booking required.

The Fantasy Literature Seminar Series 'The Weird and the Wonderful' kicks off next Thursday (16 October) with Stuart Lee's talk on ‘H. P. Lovecraft: The Madness and the Horror’. All welcome! Book your free place via Eventbrite. #HPLovecraft #fantasylit www.english.ox.ac.uk/seminar-seri...

NEW: We’re honoured to be ranked number one in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the tenth consecutive year. 👏

Do join me and @callanid.bsky.social to talk buck baskets, feisty wives and small town Tudor life👇

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

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

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...

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