Faculty

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst received his MA and Ph.D. at Cambridge University and currently is a Fellow in English with Magdalen College, Oxford. He teaches British literature from 1740 to the present with related interests in contemporary drama, the history of science, and the visual arts, particularly photography. He is the author of Victorian Afterlives (2002) and Becoming Dickens, forthcoming in 2011 from Harvard University Press.

Stacey McGowen received her B.A. in Classics and M.A. in Classical Art History and Archaeology at the University of Virginia and D.Phil. in Classical Archaeology at Oxford University.  Currently, she is Assistant Professor at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.  Her primary research interests are Roman sculpture in general and Roman art in the provinces, but she also has an interest in the modern history of ancient sites.   

Ben Morgan, the Williams Fellow in English at Exeter College, Oxford, teaches literature from 1509 to 1832. He completed his Master’s thesis on J.M. Coetzee and his PhD on Shakespeare, who remains his research focus. However, he retains strong interests in critical theory, particularly Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as post-colonial writing.

Alan Velie received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Stanford. He has taught at OU since 1967, specializing in American Indian Literature, Shakespeare, and the Bible.

Melanie Wright is the Director of Honors Curriculum for the Honors College, and the coordinator for the “Honors at Oxford” program. She received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in English at the University of Oklahoma, and wrote her dissertation on Gustave Flaubert and James Joyce.