https://www.facebook.com/ReadingWritingTeachingLearningDr Sandie Byrne (MA, DPhil, Oxon) is Professor of English at Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford. Alongside her roles at Oxford Lifelong Learning she is also the Academic Director for the International Summer School in English Literature and International Summer School in Creative Writing. Sandie’s interests are the ways in which authors exploit the possibilities of the English language, and the ways in which poetic form adds to meaning. She has published books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. She has also enjoyed writing chapters for multi-authored books. A forthcoming work, on Jane Austen’s teenage writing, designed to be accessible to all, has been accepted by Bodleian Library Publishing, and a long book on the cultural history of elegy is with a publisher.
Professor Sandie Byrne
Professor of English
Director of Studies in English, Creative Writing and Film
Course Director, Undergraduate Certificate in English Literature
Director of Graduate Studies, Taught Courses
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.
