Univ is proud to showcase here a small selection of recent publications from our College academic family. Please note that links from book titles will take you to external websites.

Dr Adrienn Almásy-Martin, Senior College Lecturer in Egyptology 2023-24, published a monograph: Greek Inscriptions on the East Bank: The Swedish Expedition to Gebel el-Silsila, Vol.1 (Brill, 2023).

Professor Bill Allan, Dean, McConnell Laing Tutorial Fellow in Greek and Latin Language and Literature and Professor of Greek, published Euripides: Bacchae in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

Professor Ruth Chang, Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence and Professorial Fellow, published Conversations in Philosophy, Law and Politics, edited with Amia Srinivasan, (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Dr Rajendra Chitnis, Ivana and Pavel Tykač Fellow in Czech, wrote the introduction to a new collection of Czech Folktales, as part of the series The World’s Greatest Myths and Legends (Flame Tree 451, February 2024).

Dr Ine Jacobs, Supernumerary Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology, contributed a chapter, “Statuary, the secular and religious powers in Late Antiquity” to Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (HUP, December 2023) and “Small, versatile, numinous: pagan-mythological statuettes at the end of antiquity” to Magnification and Miniaturization in Religious Communication in Antiquity and Modernity: Materialities and Meanings (Brepols, November 2023).

Professor Polly Jones, Schrecker-Barbour Tutorial Fellow in Slavonic and East European Studies and Professor of Russian published Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin, (Bloomsbury, 2024). The book is dedicated to the late Dr Mike Nicholson, Univ Tutorial Fellow in Russian from 1987 to 2011. Find out more.

Professor Tamsin Mather FRS, Supernumerary Fellow in Earth Sciences, published Adventures in Volcanoland was published in the UK by Abacus in April 2024 and in the USA in June by Hanover Square Press. It was reviewed in the Guardian, the Spectator, Nature and the New York Times.

Dr Patrick Quinton-Brown, Senior College Lecturer and Departmental Lecturer in International Relations, published a new book Intervention before Interventionism – A Global Genealogy (Oxford University Press, April 2024).

Dr Laura Varnam, Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature, was one of the three winners of the Nine Arches Press Primers competition for her Grendel’s Mother poems which was published in August 2024 in Primers Volume Seven. Read more.

Honorary Fellows

Professor Helen Cooper, Honorary and Emeritus Fellow, published Volume 2 of The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Medieval Poetry 1100-1400, co-edited with Robert R. Edwards (OUP, May 2023); and the third edition of Oxford Guides to Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (OUP, August 2023).

Professor Katharine Ellis (1982, Music), Honorary Fellow, won the 2023 Otto Kinkeldey Prize, awarded by the American Musicological Society, for the book French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II (Oxford University Press).

Professor Christopher Pelling, Honorary and Emeritus Fellow, published five papers on Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch, including two chapters in the Cambridge Companion to Plutarch (ed. F. Titchener and A. Zadorojnyi):

“Plutarch and biography”, in F. Titchener and A. Zadorojnyi (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch (Cambridge, 2023), 11–28.

“Wealth and decadence in Plutarch’s Lives”, in F. Titchener and A. Zadorojnyi (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch (Cambridge, 2023), 243–60.

“Friendship in Herodotus”, in A. Efstathiou, J. Filonik, C.Kremmydas, and E. Volonaki (eds.), Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature: Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael Edwards (Leiden and Boston, 2023), 155–76.

“Dover on Thucydides”, in S. Halliwell and C. Stray (eds.), Kenneth Dover: Scholarship and Controversy (London, 2023), 113–30.

“A doubles match: Agis–Cleomenes and the Gracchi”, in P. Davies and J. Mossman (eds.), Sparta in Plutarch’s Lives (Swansea, 2023), 113–38.

Former Fellows

Professor Dr Tim Brook, former Shaw Professor in Chinese, published The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023).

Professor Daniel Freeman, former Supernumerary Fellow, published Paranoia: A Psychologist’s Journey Into Extreme Mistrust and Anxiety (William Collins, February 2024).

Published: 9 May 2025

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