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Professor Sandie Byrne

Senior Research Fellow

Professor of English

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Dr Sandie Byrne (MA, DPhil, Oxon) is a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford. As Professor of English, Sandie held multiple roles at Oxford Lifelong Learning, including Director of Studies in English, Creative Writing and Film; Course Director for the Undergraduate Certificate in English Literature; Director of Graduate Studies for Taught Courses; and Academic Director for the International Summer School in English Literature and the International Summer School in Creative Writing.

Sandie tries to be inclusive and accessible in her teaching. She tends to focus on the text and to try to foster students’ skills of close critical analysis, while encouraging students to explore the contexts of texts in order to gain a better understanding of them.

She has supervised students for the English Faculty and Lifelong Learning since 1994. Subjects covered by the doctoral students include twentieth-century poetry, Jane Austen, and nineteenth-century fiction. She very much enjoyed the new approaches required to teach and supervise dissertations for the interdisciplinary MSt in Literature and Arts.

Sandie’s main research interests are in post-1945 English and Irish poetry in English and the writing of Jane Austen.

  • Tony Harrison: Loiner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • v. & O: The Poetry of Tony Harrison. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998.
  • The Poetry of Ted Hughes. Cambridge: Icon Books, 2000.
  • George Bernard Shaw: Plays. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. (Critical edition.)
  • Jane Austen, Mansfield Park. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H.H. Munro. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Jane Austen’s Possessions and Dispossessions: The Significance of Objects Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
  • The Poetry of Ted Hughes, Reader’s Guides Series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
  • Poetry and Class. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
  • Tony Harrison and the Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • 1000 Years of Loss: A Cultural History of English and Irish Elegy in English. Delivered, forthcoming.
  • Teenage Jane Austen. Delivered, forthcoming.
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