Oxford
Meet the Oxford Faculty
Classes at the Oxford Program are taught by faculty from Oxford University and surrounding academic institutions, the Center Director, and by one Stanford Faculty in Residence per quarter. These courses are taken in tandem with the required tutorial units.
Upcoming Faculty-in-Residence
| QUARTER | PROFESSOR | DEPARTMENT |
|---|---|---|
| Autumn 2007-08 | Stephen Barley | Management Science & Engineering |
| Winter 2007-08 | Stephen Barley | Management Science & Engineering |
| Spring 2007-08 | Steven Zipperstein | History |
| Autumn 2008-09 | Carolyn Lougee Chappell | History |
| Winter 2008-09 | ||
| Spring 2008-09 | Robert Siegel | Microbiology and Immunology |
Local Faculty
- Katrin Auel
- Katrin Auel is a Lecturer in Politics at Mansfield College. She was educated in Germany and received her doctorate, on the politics of national parliaments in the EU, at the University of Hagen in 2002. She has published articles in several journals and is the co-author of The Europeanization of Parliamentary Democracy (2006). She has taught in Oxford since 2004.
- Paddy Bullard
- Paddy Bullard is a Junior Research Fellow at St Catherine’s College. His main interests lie in 18th-century English Literature and society, and he wrote his doctoral thesis on the rhetoric of Edmund Burke. He is writing a book on literature and political discourse from Swift to Burke, and has published articles in the Review of English Studies and the Journal of the History of European Ideas.
- Helena Chance
- Helena Chance lectures on the history of art, architecture and design at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and is working on a doctorate on the history of factory gardens in Britain and the USA at Kellogg College, Oxford University. She has published articles in the Journal of Design History and Planning Perspectives, and has given tutorials on many aspects of the history of architecture to Stanford students over the past few years.
- John Darwin
- John Darwin is Beit Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwelth at Oxford University and is a fellow of Nuffield College. He is also currently Chair of the Oxford University Faculty of History. One of the most respected scholars of the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth, he is the author of several books, including Britain and Decolonization (1988) and The End of the British Empire: the Historical Debate (1991). He is currently completing a major book on the British Empire from c.1890 to c.1970 for the Cambridge University Press.
- Bart van Es
- Bart van Es is is a Fellow and Tutor in English at St Catherine’s College. He is a specialist in English Reniassance Literature and is the author of Spencer’s Forms of History (2002) and editor of A Critical Companion to Spencer Studies (2005). He is currently editing a series for Blackwell Publishing entitled Anthologies of Literature and Culture.
- James Forder
- James Forder is a Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Balliol College and has been University Lecturer in the Economics of European Integration since 1993. He is also a barrister and a member of the advisory council of the pressure group ‘Business for Sterling’. He is the editor of The European Union and National Economic Macroeconomic Policy (1998), co-author of Both Sides of the Coin: a Debate on the Euro (2001), and the managing editor of Oxford Economic Papers.
- Beatrice Groves
- Beatrice Groves is a Junior Research Fellow in Humanities at Wolfson College, specialising in Shakespeare. Her doctoral thesis was on religious language in Shakespeare’s early plays, and she has published articles in Shakespeare Survey, Comparative Drama, and elsewhere.
- Helen Kidd
- Helen Kidd teaches creative writing at Ruskin College, Oxford, and has published several volumes of poetry, most recently Ultraviolet Catastrophe (2003). She is also co- editor of the Virago Book of Love Poetry, and has published articles on contemporary poetry, feminist theory, and the literature of Scotland, Ireland and the Caribbean. She has travelled widely and regularly runs writing workshops in Greece.
- Robert McMahon
- Robert McMahon has been Lecturer and Tutor in Politics for several Oxford colleges, and spent two years in 1999-2001 working for HM Treasury as a policy analyst and member of the transport spending team. He wrote his doctorate at Nuffield College, Oxford, on the British Environment Agency and the US Environmental Protection Agency and is the author of The Environmental Protection Agency (2006). He currently teaches politics at Radley College, near Oxford.
- Amanda Palmer
- Amanda Palmer is a Lecturer in Sociology at St Catherine’s College and an independent consultant to the public sector on personnel and equal opportunity issues. Her doctorate, which she received from the University of Warwick, was on the influence of race, class and gender on the lives of low-achieving pupils in the English educational system, and she is the author of Schooling Comprehensive Kids (1998). She is also an avid enthusiast for Blues music and is the director of the Blues Archive, documenting the lives of Blues musicians.
- Emma Plaskitt
- Emma Plaskitt is a graduate of McGill University, Montreal, and Merton College, Oxford, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on female sexual reputation in the novels of Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and Frances Burney. Having worked as an editor on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, where she was responsible for writing many articles on 18th-century women writers, she now focuses on teaching for a variety of Oxford colleges. Though a specialist on the literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century, her research interests include the Victorian novel - particularly the gothic novel and novel of sensation - and children's literature. She has given tutorials on many other aspects of English Literature to Stanford students over the last seven years.
- Trevor Rowley
- Trevor Rowley is a historian and archaeologist who has published books on many aspects of the history of the English landscape, and of medieval English history. His most recent book, which appeared in 2006, is on the history of the 20th-century English landscape. Until his recent retirement he was tutor in archaeology and Deputy Director of the Department for Continuing Education in Oxford University, and he is an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College.
- John Senior
- John Senior is a Research Associate of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and received his doctorate, on ‘Rationalising Electrotherapy in Neurology’, at Linacre College, Oxford. He has published articles on aspects of medical history in several journals, and is the author of Pierre and Marie Curie (1998). He teaches in the post-graduate course on Evidence-Based Health Care run by Oxford University, and has given tutorials on the history of medicine, and on comparative health care, to many Stanford students in recent years.
- Geoffrey Tyack
- Geoffrey Tyack is the Director of the Stanford Program in Oxford, and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He regularly teaches courses for the Program, and his academic interestes include the History of Architecture, Urban History and the History of Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. His publications include Oxford: An Architectural Guide (1998).