Current Professorial staff •
George Benjamin, Henry Purcell Professor of Composition •
Francisco Bethencourt, Charles Boxer Professor •
Fay Bound Alberti, Professor in Modern History •
David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History •
Julia Crick, Professor of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies •
Kate Devlin, Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society •
Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History •
David Edgerton, Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology •
Paul Gilroy, Professor of American & English Literature •
Paul Joyce,
Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible •
Paul Readman, Professor in Modern British History •
Martin Stokes, King Edward Professor of Music
Former academic staff •
Roderick Beaton,
Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature •
Harrison Birtwistle, British contemporary composer •
Averil Cameron, Warden of
Keble College, Oxford, Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History in the University of Oxford, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Oxford •
A. G. Dickens (1910-2001), historian, former Director of the
Institute of Historical Research •
Richard Dyer, Professor of Film Studies •
Simon Gaunt, Professor of French Literature •
John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor •
John Elliott, historian •
Edith Hall, Professor of Classics •
F. J. C. Hearnshaw (1869-1946), historian •
Judith Herrin, Emeritus Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies •
Brian Hurwitz, D'Oyly Carte Professor of Medicine & the Arts •
Efraim Karsh, Founding Director and Emeritus Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies •
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate •
P. J. Marshall, Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, President of the
Royal Historical Society from 1997 to 2001 •
Janet Nelson, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, President of the Royal Historical Society from 2001 to 2005 •
Richard Overy, historian •
Roger Parker, Thurston Dart Professor of Music •
Curtis Price, Warden of
New College, Oxford •
David Profumo, an English novelist, 6th Baron Profumo •
Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937-2004), 5th Earl Russell •
Richard Sorabji, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy •
Susan Stebbing (1885-1943), Lecturer in Philosophy •
Joan E. Taylor, Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism •
Patrick Wright, Professor of Literature and Visual & Material Culture
Deans of Faculty • Barry Ife (Spanish): August 1989 - July 1997 • Linda Newson (Geography): August 1997 - July 2000 • Michael Knibb (Theology): August 2000 - July 2001 • David Ricks (CHS/CompLit): August 2001 - July 2004 • Ann Thompson (English): August 2004 - December 2007 • Jan Palmowski (German): January 2008 - December 2012 • Simon Gaunt (French): January 2013 - December 2013 • Russell Goulbourne (French): January 2014 - August 2018 • Jo Malt (French): September 2018 - December 2018 (Interim) • Marion Thain (English): December 2018 - October 2024 • Simon Tanner (Digital Humanities): November 2024 - Present Day (Interim)
Notable alumni File:Archbishop george carey1.jpg|
Lord Carey File:Alain de Botton.jpg|
Alain de Botton File:Anne Dudley on March 30, 2014.jpg|
Anne Dudley File:John Eliot Gardiner at rehearsal in Wroclaw cropped portrait.jpeg|
John Eliot Gardiner File:Greer Garson-publicity.JPG|
Greer Garson File:Gilbert-GS-Big.JPG|
W. S. Gilbert File:Thomas Hardy (1923 portrait).jpg|
Thomas Hardy File:Michael Morpurgo 20090315 Salon du livre 1.jpg|
Michael Morpurgo File:Michael Nyman.jpg|
Michael Nyman File:John Ruskin 1863.jpg|
John Ruskin File:Sirjonathansacks.jpg|
Jonathan Sacks File:Davidtang.jpg|
David Tang File:Desmond Tutu 2013-10-23 001.jpg|
Desmond Tutu File:George Charles Beresford - Virginia Woolf in 1902 - Restoration.jpg|
Virginia Woolf ==References==