Name: Professor Rachel Burns
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Thursday 6 February 2025

Building Nations on the Page. Old English Verse Layout in the Ninth and Nineteenth Centuries
Date: 6 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TORCH Network Poetry in the Medieval World (University of Oxford), Ugo Mondini (University of Oxford)
Host: TORCH (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Getting a Permanent Job
Date: 11 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford), Professor William Ghosh (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: Dr Felicity Brown (University of Oxford), Dr Christy Wensley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Salvation and the Land in the Old English Andreas
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Helen Appleton (Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Nothing Matters: The Contemplative Poetics of Nought in Julian of Norwich and Beyond
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

"Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
Date: 27 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker s: Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Messy Chaucer
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA