Oxford Faculty 2024
Jeri Johnson, Head Tutor. BA, Brigham Young University; MA, MPhil, University of Oxford. Peter Thompson Fellow in English, Exeter College; Professor of English, University of Oxford.
Stephen Berenson, BFA, Drake University. Founding Director of Brown University/Trinity MFA Programs in Acting and Directing; Professor of the Practice, Brown University; Resident Acting Company Member, Trinity Repertory Company.
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 sixth summer on the faculty at Lincoln College. He lives in New York City.
Lars Engle, AB, Harvard College; MA, Cambridge University; PhD, Yale University. Roxana McFarlin Chapman Chair in English, University of Tulsa.
Lars Engle has taught at Tulsa since 1988 and at Bread Loaf since 1999. He’s the author of books on Renaissance drama and Shakespeare (most recently Studying Shakespeare’s Contemporaries), coeditor of a standard collection of Renaissance dramas, coeditor of several essay collections (most recently Shakespeare and Montaigne) and author of many articles and chapters.
Jenny Green-Lewis, MA, Edinburgh University, PhD University of Pennsylvania. Professor of English, George Washington University.
Mark C. Jerng, BA, Princeton University; PhD, Harvard University. Professor of English, University of California, Davis.
Mark Jerng is Professor of English at University of California, Davis. His research interests include Asian American literature and transnationalism, critical race theory, science fiction and fantasy (especially by contemporary Asian American and African American authors), genre and narrative theory, and law and literature. He is the author of Racial Worldmaking (2018), a project that takes up particular popular genres - future war; plantation romance; sword and sorcery; alternate history - in order to analyze how genre formations inform our perceptual organizations of ‘race’ and ‘world.’ His first book, Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging (2010), focuses on the ways in which shifting norms of race and kinship shape and naturalize our conceptions of personhood. He was Lead PI of the UC Davis Summer Program for Literary Analysis and Success in the Humanities (UCD SPLASH), a UC-HBCU partnership with Hampton University, from 2015-2018. He is also Co-Director of the Mellon Initiative on Racial Capitalism (2017-2020).
Douglas A. Jones, BFA, New York University; PhD Stanford. Associate Professor of English, Theater Studies, and African and African American Studies, Duke University.
Douglas Jones’ research treats American literatures, performance studies, and political theory. He recently completed a book called Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African American Literature before Emancipation (University of Chicago Press). Douglas is currently working on a biography of the great contralto Marian Anderson to be published by Norton.
Holly A. Laird, AB, Bryn Mawr College; PhD, Princeton University. Frances W. O’Hornett Professor of Literature, University of Tulsa.
Holly A. Laird is Frances W. O’Hornett Professor of Literature at the University of Tulsa; co-editor (US) of Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford); co-lead transcription editor for the Online Michael Field Diaries; editor of The History of British Women’s Writing, vol. 7, 1880-1920; and past editor of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 1988-2008, for which she received the Distinguished Editor Award, among other honors, from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. She is author of Women Coauthors, on collaborative writing from the Victorian era to 1999; Self and Sequence: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence; and numerous articles and book chapters on Victorian and modern literature, culture, and theory. She is especially interested in intersectional feminist studies, contemporary theory and the history of literary criticism, genre study, women’s writing, and periodization issues at the turn of the twentieth century.
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.
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. Her third memoir, Nightshade Mother, is forthcoming in September 2024. Gwyneth lives in Cardiff and she was the 2016 Robert Frost Professor of Literature at the Bread Loaf School of English.
Annalyn Swan, BA, Princeton University; MA, King’s College University of Cambridge. Visiting lecturer, the Graduate Center, CUNY; Recipient of 2024 Robert Frost Chair of Literature, BLSE.
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.
Katherine Williams, BA, Arizona State University; MA, PhD, Rutgers University. Associate Professor, University of Toronto.
Dr. Katherine Schaap Williams is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She has published widely at the intersections of early modern drama, critical disability studies, and performance theory, and she edited Chapman, Jonson, and Marston’s 1605 play Eastward Ho for The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama (2020). Her monograph, Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater (Cornell University Press, 2021), received honorable mentions for both the David Bevington Award and ATHE’s Outstanding Book Award (2022). With Gregg Mozgala and Kim Weild, she is co-artistic lead (Scholar/Dramaturg) for The Apothetae residency at The Public Theater in NYC (2023-25).