Andrew Marvell Sr. relentlessly reminding me of my mortality this fine Wednesday: “man is but a bubble, a thousand of them, riding on a poole in a rainy day, are forthwith vanished” (HHC, C DIAM/1, fol 130r) Hull History Centre

It was an absolute delight to organise yesterday’s conference in the Oxford Faculty of English

The 15th issue of Oxford Research in English is LIVE! Click here to read our new issue with "No Theme": oxfordresearchenglish.wordpress.com/issue-15-no-th… Faculty of English English Faculty Library (EFL) EGO Network English Faculty Outreach #AcademicTwitter #graduate #research #academia

Gave my first lecture today, as part of the OxNet 2023 programme, and it seems to have been a great success! The students spent a solid 20 minutes asking questions on my lecture ‘Circles and Lines: The Geometry of Early Modern Poetry’

Delightfully wacky hand for #paleography Twitter in the Magdalen archives

Looking forward to speaking and chairing on Friday! Was a pleasure to help select our keynote, and eagerly awaiting Deborah Lam’s talk

Great speaking English Graduate Conference Oxford 2023 today! My paper focussed on Spenser’s reception on Quintilian, examining how far allegory is something which can be modelled.

Absolutely delighted with how our conference *Influence: 50 Years On* is shaping up. Come and join for a huge range of panels from some outstanding scholars 👇👇👇👇

As I move out of Magdalen once and for all today, there are too many things to feel all at once. However, I’m incredibly grateful to be moving out during open days, watching the delight of faces seeing Magdalen for the first time #floreatmagdalena Magdalen College

‘Heart-stopping’: censored pages of history of Elizabeth I reappear after 400 years theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…

Wohoooooo! Completed my MSt in English 1550-1700 at University of Oxford and Magdalen College with distinction! Time for the PhD Princeton University. Go tigers!

Does anyone know if there’s anything to be done to recover a My Research account on EEBO if you’ve changed institutions and no longer have library access (including digital) at the old one? #eebo #renlit

Does anyone have any good examples of the kind of meta commentary created through the character of Kirk in #gilmoregirls ? It’s an unacknowkedged aspect of his crazy character that he does EVERYTHING in the town (like a multiroling extra, but not an extra, and not multiroling)

Distinctive master of English Literature 1550-1700 Magdalen College

magd.ox.ac.uk/news/magdalen-… Magdalen College’s commitment to supporting brilliance and building for good is really remarkable. An incredible pace of various developments

If you haven’t been to Special Collections yet, what are you waiting for? During Wintersession, attendees to Firestone Library’s C-Floor did some Latin translations, learned about topographical impressions, and, of course, saw some really old books! specialcollections.princeton.edu

This has been online for a while but has its home in an issue at last! A long labour of love. ‘Mosaic of the Air’: The Shapes of Andrew Marvell’s Poetry academic.oup.com/res/article-ab…

Wanted to alert everyone to the RSA 2026 CfPs for the Andrew Marvell Society (extended deadline Aug 7th!). Marvell and Early Modern Technologies, Thomas Hobbes and the 17th-Century Literary Imagination, Teaching Marvell Today, and an open session marvell.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/07/17/com…