Fiona Stafford

Fiona Stafford
Born
Lincoln, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Professor of English Language and Literature
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Leicester
University of Oxford

Fiona Stafford FBA is Professor of English Language and Literature and a Fellow of Somerville College at the University of Oxford.[1][2]

Early life and education

Stafford was born in Lincoln but moved around during her childhood following her father's postings in the Royal Air Force. She studied for a BA in English language and literature at the University of Leicester, writing a dissertation on RAF slang. She then studied at the University of Oxford gaining an M.Phil. in English Language and Literature and a D.Phil.[3] Her thesis was on The sublime savage : a study of James Macpherson and the poems of Ossian in relation to the cultural context of Scotland in the 1750s and 1760s.[4]

Career

After a short spell teaching in the United States Stafford returned to Oxford and was appointed a tutorial fellow of Somerville College.[3] She is also Professor of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of English of the University of Oxford.[1]

Her areas of research include "Ossian, Austen, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, Heaney, Carson, literature of the Romantic period, the literature of place, nature writing (old and new), Scottish poetry after 1700, dialogues between English, Irish and Scottish literature, literature and the visual arts, and contemporary poetry".[5]

In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[6]

In 2019 the University of Leicester conferred on her an honorary doctorate of letters.[3]

Selected publications

  • The Brief Life of Flowers. John Murray. 2018. ISBN 978-1473686359.[7]
  • The Long, Long Life of Trees. Yale UP. 2016. ISBN 978-0300228205.[8]
  • Reading Romantic Poetry. Wiley/Blackwell. 2012. ISBN 9781405191555.
  • Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry. OxfordUP. 2010. ISBN 978-0199558162. (winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, 2011
  • Brief Lives: Jane Austen. Hesperus. 2008. ISBN 9781843919063.
  • Starting Lines in Scottish, English, and Irish Poetry: From Burns to Heaney. Oxford UP. 2000. ISBN 0198186371.
  • The Last of the Race: The Growth of a Myth from Milton to Darwin. Oxford UP. 1994. ISBN 9780198112228.
  • The Sublime Savage: James Macperson and The Poems of Ossian. Edinburgh UP. 1988. ISBN 9780852245699.
  • Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, ed. F. Stafford, Oxford World's Classic. Oxford UP. 2013.
  • Burns and Other Poets, ed. D. Sergeant and F. Stafford. Edinburgh UP. 2012.
  • Jane Austen's Emma: A Casebook of Criticism. Oxford UP. 2007. ISBN 9780195175301.
  • From Gaelic to Romantic: Ossianic Translations, ed. F. Stafford and H. Gaskill. Rodopi. 1998.

References

  1. ^ a b "Fiona Stafford". Somerville College. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Professor Fiona Stafford". Faculty of English Language and Literature. University of Oxford. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Professor Fiona Stafford". Graduation Ceremonies: Summer 2018: Honorands. University of Leicester. Retrieved 19 July 2019. Includes video of the oration and her response
  4. ^ "Catalogue record for "The sublime savage ..."". COPAC. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Professor Fiona Stafford". Find an Expert. University of Oxford. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Professor Fiona Stafford FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  7. ^ Carey, John. "Review: The Brief Life of Flowers by Fiona Stafford — blossoming with significance". Sunday Times. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  8. ^ Griffiths, Mark (20 August 2016). "Book of the week: The Long, Long Life of Trees". Country Life. Retrieved 19 July 2019.


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