Victoria Beatrix Fendel is a DPhil student at Oxford in her final year. She has taught Biblical Hebrew, Greek and Latin at Basel (Switzerland) and Oxford. Her main research interest is the development, the patterns of usage and the function of languages. Her DPhil focuses on the development of the Greek language, both its internal development after the Classical period and its development in contact with Semitic languages. She holds a Master’s degree in Classics and Ancient Near East Studies.

James Harris is in the final year of his doctorate in History at Lincoln College, Oxford. Within the University of Oxford, he has taught undergraduates on literature and politics in early modern England, and lectured on the English Civil War and seventeenth-century print culture. His current research project explores the intersections of politics, religion, and identity in Cornwall and south-west Wales in the later Stuart period.

Naoise Murphy graduated from Durham University in 2017 with a B.A. in English Literature and French, with a year abroad at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She will complete her MPhil this year at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. She has been awarded a Major Studentship by Newnham College Cambridge for her research on twentieth-century Irish women’s writing. She has several years of experience tutoring in both English and French.