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O'Brien, Karen (1997). Narratives of enlightenment: cosmopolitan history from Voltaire to Gibbon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0521465335.
  • O'Brien, Karen (2009). Women and Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0521773492.
  • Garside, Peter; O'Brien, Karen, eds. (2015). English and British fiction: 1750-1820. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199574803.
  • O'Brien, Karen; Young, Brian, eds. (2018). The Cambridge companion to Edward Gibbon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1107035119.
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    Karen O'Brien
    25th Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University
    Assumed office
    January 2022
    Academic offices
    Preceded by Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University
    2022–present
    Incumbent