Honors at Oxford: Faculty

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 is currently writing a book on Victorian magic.

Christine Finn has presented on archaeology in diverse media ranging from BBC radio and digital film, to public talks and international keynote lectures. A former Reuter Journalist Fellow at Oxford, she returned there to study Archaeology and Anthropology continuing to a doctorate there, published as "Past Poetic: archaeology in the poetry of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney" (Duckworth, 2004). She has explored the past in the unlikely environs of California, where she wrote "Artifacts: an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley" (MIT Press, 2001). A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Christine Finn has contributed to publications including the Sunday Times magazine, New Scientist, the Guardian, Readymade, the V and A magazine and Slow Food. Her art has been shown in exhibitions in London (www.geocities.com/sonyasoffice and www.geocities.com/memoirecollective), and her poetry published in Oxford and Dublin.

Robert Henry received his BA from the University of Oklahoma and his JD from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. A native of Shawnee, Oklahoma, Judge Henry was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 1994. He has served as a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, where he chaired the Judiciary and Education Committees, as well as the Majority Caucus, and as Attorney General of Oklahoma.

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.

Duncan Wu joined St Catherine's College, Oxford, in 2000 and in 2003 became Professor of English Language and Literature. From 1995-2000 he was Reader and then Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, and from 1991-94 he was a Research Fellow of the British Academy. He has published widely on William Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, and Romanticism. The third edition of his Romanticism: An Anthology was recently published.