Visiting Professor of Creative Media lecture with Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson is our current Visiting Professor of Creative Media. Her next talk will take place on 4 May at 5.30pm in the Gulbenkian Theatre, St Cross Building, Oxford. The title of the talk will be confirmed closer to the date.

Jeanette Winterson CBE is a British writer. Her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published in 1985, when she was 24. She later scripted it into a BBC Bafta winning drama. Twenty-seven years she returned to that material in her 2011 memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written more than 20 books of fiction and non-fiction, including a collaboration with the sculptor Antony Gormley: LAND. Her latest book is a collection of essays on AI: 12 Bytes at AI – How we got here and where we might go next. Her work is published in 27 countries.

The Visiting Professorship of Creative Media was established in 1996, as part of a generous benefaction from Rupert Murdoch. It is an annual appointment and the Professor will give a series of lectures during the academic year.

www.english.ox.ac.uk/visiting-professor-of-creative-media
Date: 4 May 2023, 17:30
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Gulbenkian Theatre
Speaker: Jeanette Winterson CBE, OBE, FRSL (University of Manchester)
Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: Katy Terry, Hope Lukonyomoi-Otunnu