Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count (Professor of Poetry Lecture by A.E Stallings)

Professor of #Poetry Talk by A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social

'Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count'
🗓️30 April, 5.30pm
📍Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

This is a public event and everyone is welcome! Tickets are free but booking is required.

#poetrysky #poetrycommunity #oxford

Join this masterclass to learn how life-writing fuels activism with award-winning writer, educator, and activist Dan Glass. @torchoxford.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
📅 19 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social & Online
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Join us on 4 May at 6pm for our next OWC #Shakespeare webinar on Henry VI Part II.

Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Dr Kavita Mudan Finn to discuss the play followed by a Q&A.

All welcome! Free but booking required.
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Old Irish: plenty of variation, but of what kind? (O'Donnell Lecture 2026)

The 2026 O'Donnell Lecture in #Celtic Studies will be given by Dr Aaron Griffith (Utrecht University) on 8 May at 5.30pm at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Dr Griffith will talk on 'Old Irish: plenty of variation, but of what kind?'. All welcome!

Tickets are free but booking is required:

Writing Queer Lives, from Biography to Anthology: Peter Parker in Conversation with Dr Eleri Anona Watson Global Majority & Underrepresented Writers' Programme Lecture

How might anthologies capture queer lives differently from biographies? Acclaimed biographer Peter Parker examines such questions with Dr Eleri Anona Watson. @engfac.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
📅 28 April | ⏰ 17:30–18:45
📍 @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social
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Professor of #Poetry talk with A.E. Stallings:

Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count
🗓️30 April at 5.30pm
📍Theatre, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford

All welcome! Tickets are free but booking is required.

#poetrycommunity #PoetrySky

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#Job opportunity: We're recruiting for an Operations Manager who will be responsible for the smooth running of all operational functions & services within the English Faculty, including office management, health & safety, IT provision & governance. english.web.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

Congratulations to Professor Rachel Burns who has been awarded the 2026 Beatrice White Prize by the English Association for her publication 'A History of Old English Verse Layout: Poetics on the Page'.

Silence: a brief literary history Without silences, we wouldn’t have the exquisite hush of medieval lullabies, the suspenseful secrets of the realist novel, or jagged modernist poetry.

Professor Kate McLoughlin has written in @uk.theconversation.com about #silence, and how noticing silences in literature can make us better readers.

"We come to recognise that some things are better left unsaid – indeed, that some things can’t be said."

#booksky #reading #literature

Registration is now open for our next Professor of #Poetry lecture on 30 April at 5.30pm.

A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social will talk on 'Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count'.

All welcome! Tickets are free but booking is required.
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Excited to receive my author copies of Henry VI Part 1 out later this month!

Hear @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and me discussing the play and my introduction today at 6pm BST @engfac.bsky.social

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English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Henry VI, Part I In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Henry VI, Part I from Oxford World's Classics.

Last chance to register for this evening's live #Shakespeare webinar with Emma Smith and Amy Lidster.

They will be discussing Henry VI, Part I, followed by a Q&A.

6 April 2026
6 - 7.15pm
Online via Zoom

All welcome! Free but registration required.

#HenryVI #ShakespeareSky

Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count (Professor of Poetry Lecture by A.E Stallings)

A.E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry lecture will take place on 30 April 2026 at 5:30pm. She will talk on 'Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count'. All welcome! www.english.ox.ac.uk/event/lispin...

Ice Shock is a novel about passionate love in a time of climate crisis Niall and Leah’s long distance relationship will test what love and career mean on a planet in crisis.

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Came upon this. Heard a rumour; now it’s real!

Daunting, inspiring, comforting, terrifying: the writers who can make silence as eloquent as words From the hush of medieval lullabies to striking poems about Grenfell, great authors know how to deploy the power of silence

Prof Kate McLoughlin has written for The Guardian about #silence and how it has 'inspired, daunted, comforted and terrified writers throughout the long course of English literature'.

Professor Sophie Ratcliffe wins the 2026 E. M. Forster Award

Congratulations to Professor Sophie Ratcliffe @sophieratcliffe.bsky.social who has been named the winner of this year's E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Henry VI, Part I In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Henry VI, Part I from Oxford World's Classics.

Our next live #Shakespeare webinar takes place on 6 April at 6pm. We'll be discussing the new Oxford World's Classics edition of HENRY VI PART I with Prof Emma Smith & Dr Amy Lidster.

The discussion will be followed by a Q&A.

All welcome! #HenryVI

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Henry VI, Part I

Really looking forward to talking with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social on 6 April about my introduction for the new Henry VI Part 1 (out 9 April). Register for free here:

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Visiting Professor of Creative Media Lecture with Bernardine Evaristo

We're delighted to welcome Bernardine Evaristo to the English Faculty as Visiting Professor of Creative Media. She will give a talk on 'The Girl from Woolwich: A Creative Life' at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on 6 May.

All welcome! Tickets are free but booking is required.

#BernardineEvaristo

Oxford English Faculty State Schools' Open Day 2026

Last chance to register for our State Schools' Open Day taking place on Saturday, 14 March at 11am-3pm.

Join us for taster lectures and info sessions. Plus hear from current students about what it's *really* like to study #English at Oxford!

#EduSky #StudyEnglish

Register for your free place:

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Henry VI Part 1 In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Henry VI Part 1 from Oxford World's Classics.

Our next #Shakespeare webinar will take place on 6 April at 6pm. This time we'll be exploring HENRY VI, PART 1 with Emma Smith and Amy Lidster.

They will discuss the play & how we might approach it in the 21st century, followed by a Q&A.

All welcome! #HenryVI #BookSky

The Politics of Oracy and the Post-Literacy Panic

We have a few tickets remaining for Wednesday's talk on 'The Politics of #Oracy and the Post-Literacy Panic' by Dr Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex).

🗓️11 March at 5pm
📍Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford

#Edusky #literacy

All welcome! Register: english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-po...

Oxford English Faculty State Schools' Open Day 2026

There's still time to register for this Saturday's ENGLISH STATE SCHOOLS' OPEN DAY for students interested in applying to study English at Oxford (& their teachers).

Join us online on 14 March for info sessions, taster lectures & student Q&A.

#EduSKy #English

Free, but registration required:

Keep sharing! Less than two weeks to go!

Make sure to tell your Y12 students who might apply to study English at Oxford 😀 ✨

#AccessOxford #SixthForm #ApplyingToOxford #OxfordUniStudent #OxfordAdmissions #OxfordInterview

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Cymbeline In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Cymbeline from Oxford World's Classics.

Last chance to register for this evening's Live Shakespeare Webinar on CYMBELINE at 6pm.

Prof Emma Smith and Dr Kim Gilchrist (Cardiff) will be discussing the play followed by a Q&A.

Free but registration required.
#Shakespeare #Cymbeline

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English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Cymbeline In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Cymbeline from Oxford World's Classics.

Our English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinars continue!

On Monday, 2 March, Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Dr Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social to discuss #CYMBELINE followed by Q&A.

All welcome! Free, but booking required. #booksky

Oxford English Faculty State Schools' Open Day 2026

The ENGLISH FACULTY STATE SCHOOLS' OPEN DAY is taking place on 14 March.

The Open Day is an online event, featuring taster lectures, information about the admissions process, plus a Q&A with current students.

Aimed at Year 12s. Pls share! #EnglishLit #EduSky

We're delighted to be welcoming Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex) to the English Faculty to talk on 'The Politics of #Oracy and the Post-Literacy Panic' on 11 March at 5pm.

All welcome! Find out more and book your free ticket: english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-po...

Announcing the Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize Winner 2026

Congratulations to Howard Anglin (Linacre College) who has been awarded the 2026 Jon Stallworthy #Poetry Prize for his poem 'Kühe-Reyen'.

Melina McClure (Merton College) was selected the runner-up for their poem 'Corrales, NM, the last weekend of September'.

www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/anno...

Bernardine Evaristo appointed as this year’s Visiting Professor of Creative Media

We're delighted to announce that this year's Visiting Professor of Creative Media will be Bernardine Evaristo!

As part of her Professorship, she will give a lecture on 6 May at the Sheldonian Theatre. Save the date!

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