Professor Jane Stevenson

Senior Research Fellow in English, Book History and Women’s Studies

Jane.stevenson@campion.ox.ac.uk

About

Jane Stevenson is a Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford, and a member of the English Faculty. She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. Her earlier career took her to the universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, Warwick. and Aberdeen, where she was Regius Professor of Humanity. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Research Interests

She has worked in a variety of areas, mostly relating to Latin and the classical tradition, women’s history, exiles, particularly recusants, and British authors who publish on the continent.

Selected Publications

Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (Oxford 2005)

Baroque Between the Wars (Oxford 2018)

The Light of Italy (London: Head of Zeus), a study of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (upcoming in 2021)