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T H E F A C U L T Y
The heart of the Oxford Summer Seminar is the teaching and learning involved in small classes led by the Seminar's distinguished staff. The following brief biographies provide some indication of the outstanding academic or artistic achievements of the Seminar's faculty.
Sally Bayley
Sally Bayley completed her first degrees at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she studied British, American, and European literatures. She completed her Ph.D. in English at Mysore University, India, where she wrote a dissertation on Sylvia Plath. Now a lecturer in modern literature at Balliol College, Oxford, she has also been a tutor in English at Wadham College.
Andrew Beaumont
Andrew Beaumont is currently College Steward at Lincoln College, Oxford. He
completed a doctoral thesis at this same college on British colonial
administrators in pre-revolutionary North America, in which he examined crown
and proprietary governors in the mainland colonies from the late 1740s to the
mid 1760s. In his research he has continued to explore the role of the Board of
Trade in forming imperial policy and the pressures incumbent on individual
governors when asserting the crown's prerogative there.
Helena Chance
Helena Chance, M.A., is a graduate of the University of Reading and a lecturer in European art, architecture, and design history at Stanford University in Oxford, the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education, and Buckinghamshire University. She is currently completing her doctoral thesis at Kellogg College, Oxford on the industrial support for green space in Britain and America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The topics she is exploring include the relationship of buildings to landscape in the making of place, and the potential for designed landscapes to enhance the quality of life and to shape a corporate identity.
Richard Coggins
Currently a lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford, Richard Coggins has taught not only at several other Oxford colleges but has also been a research associate at the University of Zimbabwe. His prime fields of interest are British political history in the era of decolonisation, especially the Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) Democratization, failed democratic transitions in Africa, and the influence of external mediators, and non-governmental actors, on democratic transition.
Clare
Connors
Currently a lecturer in English at the Queen's and St. Catherine's
Colleges, Oxford, Clare Connors read English at Hertford College,
where she was an academic scholar, before undertaking doctoral
research in critical theory. She has several publications forthcoming
on nineteenth - and twentieth-century literature, including a study
of George Eliot.
Valentine
Cunningham
A Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Valentine Cunningham, M.A., D. Phil., is also University Professor of English at Oxford. He is the author of Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel (1975); The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse, ed. (1980); Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War, ed. (1986); British Writers of the Thirties (1988); In the Reading Gaol: Texts, Postmodernity and History (1994); and Adam Bede, ed.
(1996). He reviews widely in British and American periodicals, and
broadcasts frequently for BBC Radio on literary and cultural topics.
Ralph
Hanna
A Fellow of Keble College and University Professor of Paleography, Ralph
Hanna holds degrees from Amherst College and Oxford and Yale universities.
His recent publications include Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts
and their Texts (1996), an edition of Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves,
(1997), "Miscellaneity and Vernacularity: Conditions of Literary Production
in Late Medieval England," in The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives
on the Medieval Miscellany (1996), and "Some
Norfolk Women and Their Books, ca. 1390-1440," in The Cultural Patronage
of Medieval Women (1996).
Simon Horobin
Simon Horobin is University Lecturer in Medieval English Language and Tutorial Fellow in Medieval English, Magdalen College Oxford. He has published widely on the history of English, with a particular focus on the medieval period. His publications include Introduction
to Middle English (2002), The Language of the Chaucer Tradition (2003) and Chaucer’s Language (2006).
Clare
Morgan
Clare Morgan earned her M.Phil. in twentieth-century English literature
from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford before earning an M.A. in creative writing
at the University of East Anglia. She then completed her D.Phil. at
Oxford with a thesis on post-World War II literature and art. Currently
affiliated with the creative writing program at Kellogg College, Oxford,
she is working on a book on existentialism
and British culture of the 1950s.
Nicholas
Owen
A praelector and tutor at the Queen's College, Nicholas Owen is
also a University Lecturer in Politics. He studied Philosophy,
Politics and Economics at Christ Church College, Oxford as an undergraduate,
then completed a doctorate at Nuffield College, Oxford on the politics
of British decolonization. He is the author of several chapters
and articles on the end of the British empire and on contemporary
British politics. His first book, The British Left and India:
Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, 1885-1947, was published in
the Oxford Historical Monographs series in 2007.
Sarah
Poynting
Sarah Poynting earned double first honours in English and Drama for her
B.A. at London University and earned her M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees
in English from Oxford. Her edition of Walter Montague's The Shepherds
Paradise was published by the Malone Society in 1997. She has held
a lectureship at Lady Margaret Hall, where she taught Shakespeare and
Renaissance literature, and has also taught at Mansfield and Wadham colleges.
She is currently a Research Fellow at Keele University.
Lydia
Rainford
Lydia Rainford has taught English at Merton College and is currently
a Research Fellow at St. Hugh's College, Oxford. She was awarded her
D.Phil. at Oxford in 2000 after completing a thesis titled "Feminist
Theory and Irony." She has published academic articles on women's
writing, T. S. Eliot, and Samuel Beckett, and she is co-editor of
a forthcoming book, Literature and Visual Technologies.
Jillaine Seymour
At present, Dr. Jillaine Seymour is the Thornely Law Fellow at Sidney Sussex
College, Cambridge. She is also City Solicitors Educational Trust Lecturer
in the law faculty at the University of Cambridge. A graduate of the University
of Queensland, with degrees in both politics and law, she attended Magdalen
College, Oxford as a graduate student after working as a clerk to a federal
court judge in Australia. She was a law fellow at Trinity College and University
lecturer from 1996 to 2001, and completed her doctorate at Oxford University
in 2001. Before taking up her current post at Cambridge University in 2003,
she practiced law in Sydney, Australia. While there, she taught two graduate
courses at the University of New South Wales: The Use of Force and Advanced
Issues in International Law. While at Oxford, she directed the international
law component of the Foreign Service Program, a diploma program for professionals
in the diplomatic service. At Cambridge she teaches public
international law and lectures on the settlement of international disputes.
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