The Faculty of English Language and Literature is by far the largest English Department in the UK, with over 75 permanent postholders, a further 70 Faculty members, 900 undergraduates and 300 postgraduates. The Faculty has a very distinguished research and teaching record, covering all periods of English Literature.
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Calling all palaeographers: budding, established or rusty.
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships are designed to support scholars at a relatively early stage of their academic careers (defined as having been viva’ed no more than five years prior to the closing date), but with a proven record of research. Fellowships are tenable for three years on a full-time basis. Further details about the scheme are available at: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/ECF/ECF.cfm
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Simon Armitage gave his first lecture as Professor of Poetry to a large audience at the Examination Schools on Tuesday 24 November 2015.
Professor Armitage opened with an account of 'the parable of the solicitor and the poet', in which a poet pays a solicitor for legal advice. The solicitor then asked the poet to review some poetry he had written - and did not offer to pay the poet.
Read more: Listen to Professor Simon Armitage's Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Poetry
20 July 2016 - 23 July 2016
An Interdisciplinary Anniversary Conference
Worcester College, Oxford, and TORCH, 20-23 July 2016
A major conference to mark the 950th anniversary of the Norman Conquest and 1000th anniversary of Danish conquest.
Topics include (in no particular order):
Read more: Conquest: 1016, 1066