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Staff & Fellows’ news
Dr Mark Atherton
Stipendiary Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
Mark’s new book, The Battle of Maldon: War and Peace in Tenth-Century England, is shortly to be published by Bloomsbury. The
subject is one of the set texts for the BA in English at Oxford and at other universities that cover the history of English literature: a poem on loyalty, treachery and solidarity in a time of crisis.
Mark has also recently published a new, third edition of his textbook, Complete Old English, which he recommends for students studying English at Mansfield and Regent’s Park to use as a ‘teach yourself at home’ supplement to the module on early medieval literature (part of the Oxford English BA course in the first year).
In February, he spoke at the Polyglot Conference in Edinburgh on ‘What is Old English and how did it sound?’. The talk ended with Mark performing a musical interlude (without his band)! You can watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=06QNoa-rXfE&feature=youtu.be
Recent publications:
Complete Old English, Teach Yourself Series (Hodder, 2019). ISBN 978-1-473-62792-5. New edition.
Professor Ros Ballaster
Professorial Fellow in English
Ros has completed her third year in post as Faculty Board Chair in English. She ends her term in autumn 2021 when she will return to her Professorial Fellow duties at Mansfield.
This year, she has also published a monograph, Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
In spring 2020 Ros received news that she had secured a grant
as Principal Investigator with total funding of £34,000 as one of
12 projects for a UK-Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities Networking programme. The ‘Digital Edgeworth Network’ (DEN) is a collaboration between the Faculty of English, the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, the Bodleian Libraries (Oxford), and the National Library of Ireland (Dublin). The project is jointly sponsored and funded by the Irish Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), and the Fell Fund of Oxford University. Its aim is to explore and analyse the manuscript archives of the celebrated author Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
and the Edgeworth family, currently divided between the Bodleian Libraries and the National Library of Ireland.
The project runs from 1 August 2020 to 30 November 2021 and also supports a Research Assistantship. Dr Anna Senkiw, graduate of Mansfield, took up the post in August.
For more information about research into the Edgeworth papers at the Bodleian led by Ros, consult the Twitter feed https://twitter. com/EdgeworthPapers, blog posts http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ archivesandmanuscripts/2019/03/29/opening-the-edgeworth- papers/ and materials on the English Faculty Open Educational Resource https://writersinspire.org/writers/maria-edgeworth.
Recent publications:
Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Boydell & Brewer, 2020). ISBN 9781783275588. A 35% discount is available through Proofed (publisher’s blog): https:// boydellandbrewer.com/blog/.
‘Eovaai and the Fiction of Fantasy in Eighteenth-Century England’, in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood, ed T Potter (Modern Language Association, 2020), 155-161. ISBN 9781603294621 (hbk), ISBN 9781603294249 (pbk).
Dr Pam Berry
Supernumerary Fellow in Geography
This year, Pam’s work in the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Oxford’s Environmental
Change Institute (ECI) has continued to be focused on nature- based solutions. In conjunction with colleagues at the Nature- based Solutions Initiative in Oxford she has co-authored two papers and helped organise the international online conference, ‘Nature-based Solutions Digital Dialogues’.
Recent publications:
‘Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges’, N Seddon, A Chausson, P Berry, C Girardin, AC Smith, and B Turner in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375 (1794), (2020).
‘Grounding nature-based climate solutions in sound biodiversity science’, N Seddon, B Turner, P Berry, A Chausson, and CAJ Girardin in Nature Climate Change, 82-87 (2019).
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