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Annual Review
2010/11
Dr Matthew Bevis
Tutorial Fellow in Literature of the Romantic Period
Dr Bevis joins us from the University of York. He is widely published, with
interests not only in the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century Romantic
Period, but into the early twentieth century. One of his current research areas is
the nature of humour in literature. His publications include
The Art of Eloquence:
Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce
(2007), which looks at the relationship between
political oratory and literature, and he is working on two books:
Comedy: A Very
Short Introduction
and
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry.
Dr Morgan Clarke
Tutorial Fellow in Anthropology
Dr Clarke was previously Simon Research Fellow in the Department of Middle
Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester. He is an anthropologist of
the Arabic-speaking Middle East, interested in medical ethics, kinship, religion
and law. He completed a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in the
Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and has
taught at Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester. He is the author of
Islam and
New Kinship: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon
(2009).
Dr William Kynes
Liddon Research Fellow and Tutor in Theology
As a young researcher, Dr Kynes has just completed his doctorate at St John’s
College, Cambridge, where he has also been teaching. His research concerns
the analysis of the “Wisdom Literature” category applied to texts in the Hebrew
Bible. He completed his previous studies at the universities of St Andrews and
Virginia. He has been published in the journal
Biblical Interpretation
, and has a
number of publications forthcoming on the interpretation of the Book of Job.
Dr Tracey Sowerby
Career Development Fellow in Renaissance Studies
Dr Sowerby’s work within the College will be a cornerstone of the further
development of our interdisciplinary research cluster in Medieval and
Renaissance Studies. Her work on early modern diplomacy links history,
anthropology, literary studies and art history. Dr Sowerby’s publications include
Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England: The Careers of Sir Richard Morison c.
1513-1556
(OUP 2010) and ‘Anne Boleyn’s Coronation’, in the
Oxford Handbook
of Tudor Drama
. She comes to us from a post at Pembroke College, Oxford.
Welcoming New Fellows