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.

Lili Owen Rowlands is a postgraduate student at Wadham College, University of Oxford. She graduated with a double first with oral distinction in Philosophy and French at University College London before coming to Oxford to complete an MSt in French theory and literature. She has also worked for two years as a journalist and editor, reporting from Tahiti to Las Vegas, Venice to Rajasthan. Her primary research interests are the use of philosophy and theory within contemporary French feminist writing, gender theory and continental philosophy. Lili has considerable teaching experience, having worked as a private tutor as well as a graduate access tutor for both Wadham College and the University of Oxford.

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.