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Fiona Stafford | |
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| Born | 1960 (age 64–65) Lincoln, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Literary scholar and academic |
| Title | Professor of English Language and Literature |
| Awards | Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (2011) |
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| Alma mater | University of Leicester University of Oxford |
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| Institutions | Lincoln College,Oxford Somerville College,Oxford |
Fiona J. Stafford FBA FRSE (born July 1960) [1] is Professor of English Language and Literature and a Fellow of Somerville College at the University of Oxford. [2] [3]
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. [4] 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. [5]
Stafford's first academic appointment was as a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Lincoln College,Oxford. [6] After a short spell teaching in the United States,she returned to Oxford and was appointed a tutorial fellow of Somerville College. [4] She is also Professor of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of English of the University of Oxford. [2]
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". [7]
In 2006 Stafford was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [8] In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. [9]
In 2019 the University of Leicester conferred on her an honorary doctorate of letters. [4]
In 2019 Stafford appeared in an episode of the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time on Robert Burns alongside Murray Pittock and Robert Crawford. [10]
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