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JOB OPPORTUNITY: We're recruiting for a Departmental Lecturer with a core focus on literature in #English from 1830-1914.
Closing date: 26th June 2026, 12:00
#AcademicJobs #EnglishLiterature
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Jun 9
Tomorrow, 6pm, Poets at Keble presents a reading by Will Harris
Free entry, no booking required, all welcome:
keble.ox.ac.uk/teaching-rese…
@KebleOxford @EngFac_Outreach @engfac
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Dr Sebastian Egholm Lund has written in @ConversationUK about an unsung hero of science, William Adams, a Bombay bureaucrat whose vision of a solar future was dashed by colonial conservatism. theconversation.com/my-unsun…
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May 29
There's still time to register for our upcoming live #Shakespeare webinar on 1 June. This time Prof Emma Smith be exploring ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM with guest Dr Iman Sheeha.
🗓️1 June 2026 at 6pm
📍Online via Zoom
All welcome! Free but registration required.
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TOMORROW: For many theorists, autobiography assumes a self that can be known. Jackie Kay explores what happens when identity is unknown, uncertain, or multiple in conversation with Hermione Lee. @engfac @TORCHOxford
📅 29 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege
buff.ly/M08llQN
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May 26
Join us for a pre-screening podcast & discussion about Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ with @TheMovieMike and @bunnydarke of @EvolutionPod and Leila Latif, cultural critic & host of @TruthAndMovies.
🗓️Sunday 31 May, 6pm
📍Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
#GetOut
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May 22
Join us for the first film season at the Schwarzman Centre🎥
Dr Christy Wensley has curated a series of film screenings & talks next week from 26 – 31 May on Black Horror in “Post-Racial” America: Fear on Film After Obama through Trump 2.0.
All welcome! schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/th…
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May 22
Featuring Peele’s Get Out and Us, Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You, Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (2021) and Bernard Rose’s Candyman (1992) and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, this week-long series explores the genre’s capacity to thrill audiences, experiment with form & resist power.
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May 22
Poetry at Keble Presents…
A Reading By Will Harris
6pm, Weds 10th June, Pusey Room
Free entry, no tickets or booking required, all welcome.
More info here:
keble.ox.ac.uk/teaching-rese…
@KebleOxford @engfac @EngFac_Outreach
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Faculty of English retweeted
May 20
Some books stay with us for a lifetime. 📚
Honorary Fellow and author @ellekeboehmer shares why Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party has meant so much to her, both as a reader and as a writer.
#NationalYearOfReading2026 #YearOfReading2026 #GoAllIn2026
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May 19
Really pleased to see this is now out. Congratulations to Beppe Pezzini on pulling this collection together. I have a piece in there on Smith and #Tolkien's war poetry! @engfac @ExeterCollegeOx
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May 13
Next up in our #Shakespeare webinar series is the new OWC edition of ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM on 1 June at 6pm.
Prof Emma Smith will be joined by the writer of the intro, Dr Iman Sheeha (Brunel University London).
All welcome! Free but booking required: shakespeare-webinar-arden-of…
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Join @ellekeboehmer in conversation with Professor Dame Hermione Lee for the launch of 'Ice Shock' and 'Southern Imagining'. @engfac @TORCHOxford
📅 26 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege
Free & open to all. Sign up: buff.ly/ZyP6A7x
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We have a few tickets remaining for this evening's O'Donnell Lecture in Celtic Studies. Join us at 5.30pm to hear Dr Aaron Griffith talk on ‘Old #Irish: plenty of variation, but of what kind?’.
This is a public lecture & all are welcome! Register here: schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/sp…
Join us for this year's O'Donnell Lecture in #Celtic Studies:
‘Old #Irish: plenty of variation, but of what kind?’
Dr Aaron Griffith (Utrecht University)
🗓 8 May at 5.30pm
📍 Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford
All are welcome! Register: english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/o…
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Join us for this year's O'Donnell Lecture in #Celtic Studies:
‘Old #Irish: plenty of variation, but of what kind?’
Dr Aaron Griffith (Utrecht University)
🗓 8 May at 5.30pm
📍 Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford
All are welcome! Register: english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/o…
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Apr 28
Explore Henry VI, Part II with Prof Emma Smith & Dr Kavita Mudan Finn in our next OWC #Shakespeare webinar!
Shakespeare webinar on Henry VI, Part II
🗓️4 May
🕐6-7.15pm
📍Online via Zoom
All welcome! #HenryVI
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Explore how ordinary lives can illuminate the extraordinary in this conversation between acclaimed authors Kit de Waal and Professor Elleke Boehmer. @engfac @TORCHOxford
📅 12 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 Online via Zoom
Free & open to all. Register: buff.ly/bxHqLq1
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Apr 23
One week today! Join us at 5.30pm on 30 April at the Schwarzman Centre for A.E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry talk on 'Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count'.
All welcome! Tickets are free but booking is required.
#poetrycommunity #OxfordEvents
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Apr 22
The Schwarzman Centre is opening its doors this Saturday (25 April) for a free festival celebrating the humanities. Explore Oxford’s newest cultural space with music, dance, film, family activities & short talks from academics.
ALL WELCOME!
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