Monday 30 October
Professor Claire Jarvis (Oliver Smithies Lecturer and Visiting Fellow) will give two Oliver Smithies Lectures in Michaelmas Term 2017:
- Wednesday 15 November at 5.15pm, Old Archives Room, Balliol: ‘Edith’s Two Bodies’
- Thursday 23 November at 5.15pm, Old Archives Room, Balliol: ‘“Oh my beloved Victoriana:” Barbara Pym’s Forms of Critique’, to be followed by a drinks reception.
Professor Claire Jarvis is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Stanford University, where she teaches Victorian and Modernist literature and culture.
The Oliver Smithies Lectures are funded by a generous benefaction from Professor Oliver Smithies (Balliol 1943 and Honorary Fellow 2004-2017), which enables Balliol to bring distinguished visitors to the University of Oxford.