Tutorial Fellow & Director of Studies in English @RegentsOx @engfac. Many interests, specialising in 16th-18th century English literature, history and theology.
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Proud dad moment: Our 2 year old picked a book off a pile and said "John Bunyan!" He also knows "Jane Eyre" and "Green Knight" (Sir Gawain and), though sometimes gets a bit mixed up and calls it "Good Night".
Taster of English at Oxford/Regent's Park College: online masterclass inc. allegory from Milton to Orwell with me and ‘Woolf, Plath and the Psychiatrists’ with Richard Lawes plus Q&A/tips on application (Friday 28th August; sign up deadline Monday 24th)
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Job opportunity in early modern English literature: We are recruiting for a nine month college lectureship (0.5 FTE) at Regent's Park College, Oxford, to cover my teaching while I am on research leave and help with Director of Studies role. For more, see:
rpc.ox.ac.uk/about-regents/v…
I highly recommend this article which gives more detail and insight into the incompetent processes and damaging outcomes of the threatened redundancies at the University of Exeter #defendexeteruni
How to kill a university’s reputation
After Exeter’s announcement that it will cut 150 academic jobs, is there any hope for higher education?
@elladorn_
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Job opportunity: would you or someone you know like to work with me on a 3 year interdisciplinary project on Literary Platonism from 1500 to the Present? Applicants welcome from any relevant field, including literature, philosophy, theology etc.
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Worrying from Exeter - the University it seems planning to slash humanities teaching while telling colleagues it is “in line with the government’s industrial strategy”. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2d…
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The University of Exeter has become the latest Russell Group university to announce major job cuts, insisting it “must” take action to reduce financial pressures #highered #jobcuts
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Horrified to hear about mass redundancies @uniofexeter including up to 25% of the English department. The livelihoods of many excellent former colleagues are under threat, and if I hadn't moved a year ago this would have included mine. Please consider signing petition below.
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - Sign the Petition! c.org/tBDqPF458q via @UKChange
After years in the making, The Oxford Handbook of Allegory is out imminently: 37 chapters by 41 contributors from 4 continents and multiple academic disciplines on allegory from Plato to Inside Out!
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Literature and religion people: What would you recommend as introductory reading for an hour and a half class on biblical and religious contexts for English literature as part of a general Intro to English Lang and Lit course?
Forthcoming June 2026:
The Oxford Handbook of Allegory - allegory from Plato to Inside Out, drawing on literary studies, film studies, art history, classics, mathematics, theology, and cognitive science. It's been a fun few years!
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"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Never had it been so with him before. Never before had he been unable to see God beside him. Yet never was God nearer him than now. For never was Jesus more divine.
He could not see, could not feel him near; and yet it is “My God” that he cries.
Thus the Will of Jesus, in the very moment when his faith seems about to yield, is finally triumphant. It has no feeling now to support it, no beatific vision to absorb it.
I had fun talking 17th century poetry with some well informed young readers at the Kids Talk Church History podcast. Enjoy!
