Oxford Faculty 2025
Jeri Johnson, Head Tutor. BA, Brigham Young University; MA, MPhil, University of Oxford. Fellow in English Emerita, Exeter College; Academic Director of the Exeter College Summer Programmes; Professor of English Emerita, University of Oxford.
Stephen Berenson, BFA, Drake University. Founding Director of the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs in Acting and Directing.
Stephen Berenson is Founding Director of the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs in Acting and Directing. As Professor of the Practice at Brown, his major areas of instruction were Shakespeare, Chekhov, Moliere, and contemporary dramatic texts. A member of the Resident Acting Company at Trinity Rep for 30 years, his roles have included Willy Loman, Shylock, Feste, Puck, Fagin, Grendel, and Scrooge. Recognition includes the New England Theatre Conference Teacher of the Year Award, the Providence Mayor Citation for Excellence, and a Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship at Ten Chimneys. A long-time member of the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble in Vermont, this will be his seventh summer on the faculty at Lincoln College. He lives in New York City.
David Dwan, BA, MA (Oxford); PhD (London); Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History, University of Oxford; Tutorial Fellow in English, Hertford College
My work examines the links between literature and its wider intellectual history – particularly moral and political philosophy – in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I have a particular interest in Irish writing. My publications include The Great Community: Culture and Nationalism in Ireland, The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke (co-edited with Chris Insole), Liberty Equality and Humbug: Orwell’s Political Ideals. The Good Life and Other Fictions is soon to be published by Princeton University Press.
John Fyler, AB, Dartmouth College; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Professor of English, Tufts University. Recipient of the 2025 John M. Kirk Chair of Medieval and Early Modern Literature, BLSE.
John Fyler is a Professor of English at Tufts University, where he teaches medieval literature. His books include Chaucer and Ovid and Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun; he is currently finishing a book on Troilus and Criseyde. His recent essay “Language Barriers” won a prize from Studies in Philology. He has been an ACLS and Guggenheim Fellow, and has had resident fellowships at the Camargo and Bogliasco Foundations, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and the Huntington Library. Most recently, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, and at the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco.
Alexa Alice Joubin, BA, Tsinghua University, Taiwan; PhD, Stanford University. Professor of English and Director of the Digital Humanities Institute, George Washington University.
Alice Joubin is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Director of the Digital Humanities Institute, George Washington University. She writes about AI, race, gender, globalization, Shakespeare, and film and theatre. Her books include Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford UP, 2021), Race (with Orkin, Routledge, 2018), Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (edited, Bloomsbury, 2024), King Lear (Broadview, 2023), Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare (edited, 2022), Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance (edited, 2018), and Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (edited, 2014). She was appointed distinguished visiting professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, University of Essex in the UK, Yonsei University and Seoul National University in South Korea, and Beijing Normal University and Shandong University in China, and held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Global Shakespeare Studies at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Warwick in the UK.
Gwyneth Lewis, BA, University of Cambridge; DPhil, University of Oxford. Former Welsh Poet Laureate. 2014 Bain-Swiggett Visiting Lecturer in Poetry and English, Princeton University. Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for Services to Literature.
Gwyneth Lewis was National Poet of Wales 2005-06, the first to be awarded the laureateship. She is an award-winning poet in both Welsh and English. In 2010 she was given a Cholmondeley Award by the Society of Authors. Gwyneth’s two memoirs are Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book about Depression (Harper Perennial, 2002) and Two in a Boat: A Marital Rite of Passage (Fourth Estate, 2005). Gwyneth was made MBE in the Queen’s Jubilee Honours List for services to literature and mental health. Gwyneth lives in Cardiff and she was the 2016 Robert Frost Professor of Literature at the Bread Loaf School of English. Her latest books are the memoir Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling (Calon 2024) and a collection of poems, First Rain in Paradise (Bloodaxe, 2025).
David J. Russell, BA, University of Oxford; PhD, Princeton University. Associate Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles. Recipient of the 2025 Frank and Eleanor Griffiths Chair, BLSE.
David Russell is associate professor of English at UCLA. He has taught at Oxford University and King’s College London. He is the author or Marion Milner: On Creativity (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Princeton University Press, 2018).
Annalyn Swan, BA, Princeton University; MA, King’s College University of Cambridge. Visiting lecturer, the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Annalyn Swan is the author, with Mark Stevens, of de Kooning: An American Master, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times. Their second biography, of the British artist Francis Bacon, was named The Times of London’s best art book of the year in 2021, and was a finalist for the Apollo and Plutarch awards. A graduate of Princeton University and a Marshall Scholar, she earned her master’s degree at King’s College, Cambridge University. She is the former music critic of Time and the arts editor of Newsweek and a former trustee of Princeton University. She also served for many years on the Advisory Council of Princeton’s English Department. She and Stevens are now beginning a biography of the Iraqi-English architect Zaha Hadid.
Mark Turner, BA, Hampden-Sydney College; MA, PhD, University of London. Professor of English, King’s College London.
I am a Professor of English at King’s College London, where I have been based since 2000. I teach courses in literature and culture since 1800, with a particular emphasis on the 19th century, urban writing and queer studies. My research and publications fall into two broad areas: the relationship between literature, media and culture since the 19th century, and Anglo-American queer studies. I have published widely on various aspects of literature, journalism, photography, film, painting and popular culture. Publications include the books Trollope and the Magazines and Backward Glances: Cruising the Queer Streets of New York and London and a 2-volume edition of Wilde’s journalism for Oxford University Press’s ‘Collected Works’ series.