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Art History
Nerissa Taysom
DipABRSM (RAM), BA (Bris) MA (Courtauld)
Visiting Lecturer in Art History
Nerissa is a Visiting Lecturer in Art History at New College of Humanities, where she has delivered the first lectures for the new undergraduate minor degree course. She studied History of Art at the University of Bristo...
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Dr Susan Green
BA (Wales), GradDip, MA, PhD (Courtauld)
Visiting Lecturer in Art History
Dr Green joined NCH in 2017 as Visiting Lecturer in Art History. She started her teaching career in 2014 at the Courtauld Institute of Art where she is now an Associate Lecturer. Professional Affiliations Associati...
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Dr Patrycja Kaszynska
BA (UCL), Mst, DPhil (Oxon)
Course Leader & Visiting Lecturer in Art History
Dr Patrycja Kaszynska is Course Leader & Visiting Lecturer in Art History at NCH. She is also Research Associate, Culture, King’s College London. Prior to this she was Project Manager for the Cultural Value Scoping...
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Jaya Savige
BA, MPhil (UQ), PhD (Cantab – pending)
Lecturer in English and Course Leader in Creative Writing
Jaya Savige is Lecturer in English and Course Leader in Creative Writing. He is a prize-winning poet who read for his PhD on James Joyce at Christ’s College, Cambridge, on a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates ...
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Dr Timothy Birabi
BA (KNUST), MSc, PhD (Glas)
Visiting Lecturer in Econometrics
Dr Timothy Birabi is a Visiting Lecturer in Econometrics in the Faculty of Economics at NCH London. He is also Co-Investigator on a recently awarded ESRC research grant at the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of S...
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Dr Yaprak Tavman
BSc (METU), MSc (York), PhD (York)
Lecturer in Economics
Dr Tavman is a Lecturer in Economics teaching Applied Economics I for 3rd year and Macroeconomics I&II for 2nd year undergraduates. After the completion of her PhD in Economics at the University of York, Yaprak start...
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Susan Steed
BSc (Bris), MSc (BBK)
Visiting Tutor in Economics
Susie Steed is an economics lecturer and commentator who has written for publications such as The Guardian, HuffPost and appeared on the TEDx Talks, LSE Podcast and Institute of Ideas. She has appeared in several doc...
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Dr Sebastian Ille
MSc (HU), PhD (UNISI)
Lecturer in Economics
Sebastian is a Lecturer in Economics at New College of the Humanities. He completed his Master’s degree in Economics and Management Science at the School of Business and Economics of the Humboldt University. He holds P...
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Professor Monojit Chatterji
BA (MU), BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Professor of Economics
Monojit is a Visiting Lecturer in the Economics Faculty. He has previously held academic appointments at several British, US, Indian and Australian Universities. He has acted as an External Examiner in leading Universiti...
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Dr George Zouros
BSc (QMUL), MSc (Imp Lond), PhD (LSE), PGCE (KCL)
Lecturer in Economics
Dr Zouros has worked as a Lecturer and Senior Tutor in Economics at NCH since its foundation, teaching Mathematics, Statistics and Further Mathematics. He received his PhD in Philosophy of Science in 2007 from the London...
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Dr Mike Peacey
BSc, MA, PhD (Bris), DipFA, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Dr Mike Peacey is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at New College of the Humanities. He has a Doctorate in Economics (PhD) from the University of Bristol for his thesis entitled Essays in Applied Microeconomics. He also ho...
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Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta
BSc (Delhi), BA, MA, PhD (Cantab), FBA, FAAAS
Visiting Professor of Economics
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta was named a Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s 2002 Birthday Honours List for services to economics. He has the rare distinction of being a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Roy...
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Dr Marianna Koli
BSc (UMIST), MSc (Manc), PhD (Manc)
Head of Faculty for Economics
Dr Marianna Koli joined New College of the Humanities for its first teaching year, and has held a number of responsibilities at the College. She is Head of Faculty for Economics, and from 2014 to 2016 was the College’s...
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Dr Daniel Swift
BA (Oxon), PhD (CU)
Senior Lecturer in English
Dr Daniel Swift is Senior Lecturer in English. He has a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Columbia University in New York. He has written books about Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare, and the poetry of the Second...
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Jaya Savige
BA, MPhil (UQ), PhD (Cantab – pending)
Lecturer in English and Course Leader in Creative Writing
Jaya Savige is Lecturer in English and Course Leader in Creative Writing. He is a prize-winning poet who read for his PhD on James Joyce at Christ’s College, Cambridge, on a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates ...
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Dr Dan O'Hara
BA, MA (Warwick), MSt, DPhil (Oxon)
Senior Lecturer in English
Dr Dan O’Hara is Senior Lecturer in English. He holds a BA and MA from Warwick University and an MSt and DPhil from Oxford University. His DPhil was a history of the idea of the machine in literature, art, and philoso...
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Dr Catherine Brown
BA (Cantab), MSc (LSE), MA (UCL), Dip, PhD (Cantab)
Head of Faculty & Senior Lecturer in English
Dr Catherine Brown is Head of Faculty & Senior Lecturer in English at New College of the Humanities. She studied English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She then moved out into academic and practical politi...
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Dr Charlotte Grant
BA (Cantab), MA (Courtauld Institute), PhD (Cantab)
Senior Lecturer in English
Dr Charlotte Grant is a Senior Lecturer in English. She studied English at Trinity Hall Cambridge, where she also did her Phd on Eighteenth-Century literature and visual culture following a Masters in Art History at the ...
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Dr Peter Maber
BA, MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Lecturer in English
Dr Peter Maber is Lecturer in English & Senior Tutor in English at New College of the Humanities (NCH). He has degrees from the University of Cambridge in English and American Literature, and completed his PhD on the...
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Professor Sir Christopher Ricks
BA, MA, BLitt (Oxon), FBA
Visiting Professor of English
Sir Christopher Ricks delivers lectures for the English BA at New College of the Humanities. He is Warren Professor of the Humanities, and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University, having formerly bee...
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Sir Trevor Nunn
MA (Cantab)
Visiting Professor of Drama
Trevor Nunn is one of Britain’s most well-respected and influential theatre directors. After studying English under F R Leavis at Downing College, Cambridge, he became Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at...
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Dr Estelle Paranque
BA, MA (Aix), PhD (UCL)
Lecturer in Early Modern History
Dr Paranque is Lecturer in Early Modern History. She joined NCH in September 2017 having previously taught at King’s College London, University of Winchester and UCL. Estelle will be delivering the undergraduate co...
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Professor Bettany Hughes
MA (Oxon) DUniv (York) FHA (Fellow of the Historical Association)
Visiting Professor of History
Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster, who has devoted the last 25 years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her speciality is ancient and mediaeval history and culture. A Scholar at ...
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Dr Edmund Neill
MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE), FRHistS
Lecturer in Modern History; Research coordinator; Admissions tutor
Dr Neill is a Lecturer in Modern History at New College of the Humanities. He gained a BA in Modern History at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he was a college scholar. Subsequently, he gained an MSc in Politica...
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Dr Lars Kjaer
BA (AU), MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Head of Faculty & Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
Dr Kjaer is Head of Faculty & Senior Lecturer in Medieval History for the History Faculty at New College of the Humanities. He obtained his BA in History and Social Anthropology from Aarhus University, Denmark, in 2...
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Dr Olly Ayers
BA (Manc), PhD (Kent)
Lecturer in History & Politics; Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Olly Ayers is a Lecturer in History. He received a first-class honours degree in history from the University of Manchester before completing a PhD in history at the University of Kent in 2013, where he was a Lecturer ...
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Suzi Broadaway
BA (Hons) (Surrey Roehampton)
Careers Adviser
Suzi helps deliver NCH’s high-quality careers counselling service. She has a particular focus on the Creative Industries. Suzi is responsible for employer outreach to create top-tier internship opportunities and employ...
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Matthew Batstone
MA (Cantab), MBA (INSEAD)
Dean of Careers
Matthew Batstone was educated at Clare College, Cambridge University where he earned a MA in English Literature, and at INSEAD where he graduated with a MBA with distinction. Batstone began his career at the advertising ...
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Philip Hunter
Solicitor (non practising) LLB (Hull) PGDip (MMU)
Visiting Lecturer in Law
Philip Hunter joined NCH in 2017 as Visiting Lecturer in Law. Philip started his legal training in 1980 at Hull University, completing a law degree in 1983. He completed his Law society finals at Nottingham Trent Unive...
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Stephen Dnes
MA (Cantab), LLM (UVA Law)
Lecturer in Law
Stephen Dnes is a lecturer in law at NCH. Following legal education at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and the University of Virginia School of Law, Stephen was admitted to the New York Bar and developed a comp...
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Dimitrios Kyriazis
LLB (Athens), MJur (Oxon), MPhil (Oxon)
Head of Faculty & Senior Lecturer in Law
Dimitrios Kyriazis is Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer in Law. He joined NCH in 2017, having taught for several years at Oxford University on the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. He served as Teaching Fellow ...
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Dr Victoria Brooks
LLB, PhD (Westminster)
Visiting Lecturer in Law
Dr Brooks is Visiting Lecturer in Law. She teaches Criminal Law, Criminology and the Law, Law of Torts, Critical Environmental Law, New Legal Thinking and Jurisprudence. Her research and teaching methods tend to be radi...
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Ursula Smartt
JP, PGDipjur, MA, MPhil
Lecturer in Law
Ursula Smartt is a Lecturer for the Law LLB at NCH and the Careers Counsellor (Law) at NCH. She holds a BA in English and German from the University of Hull, a PGCE from the University of Hull, a MA in German Politics an...
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Professor Adrian Zuckerman
LLM (Jerusalem), MA (Oxon)
Visiting Professor of Law
Professor Zuckerman is a leading scholar on civil litigation and the administration of justice. His book, Zuckerman on Civil Procedure, is the foremost scholarly work on the subject and is regularly cited in the higher ...
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Dr Ioannis Votsis
BA (UC Berkeley), PhD (LSE)
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Ioannis Votsis holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (BA 1998) and the London School of Economics (PhD 2004). He is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities and Fellow in the...
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Professor Simon Blackburn
BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Well known for his efforts to make philosophy accessible to a wider public, Simon is one of the country’s leading philosophers. He is well regarded as a proponent of a distinctive approach to ethics and a defender ...
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Professor Daniel Dennett
BA (Harvard), DPhil (Oxon)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Professor Daniel Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has held visiting positions at Harvard Univers...
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Dr Naomi Goulder
BA, MA (Cantab), PhD (London)
Head of Faculty & Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Naomi is Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities. Naomi holds a BA (Hons) degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge, was a Henry Fellow at Harvard University, and (...
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Professor Peter Singer
BA, MA (Melbourne), BPhil (Oxon)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Professor Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash Univer...
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Dr Christoph Schuringa
Qualifications BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (Lond)
Lecturer in Philosophy
Dr Christoph Schuringa holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (King’s College) and a PhD from the University of London (Birkbeck College). Qualifications PhD in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of L...
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Dr David Mitchell
BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE)
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Dr David Mitchell has been Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at New College of the Humanities since September 2012. He currently leads courses in the first, second and third year undergraduate curriculum and i...
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Professor A C Grayling
BA (SUS), BA (Lond), MA (SUS), DPhil (Oxon), FRSL, FRSA
Master of New College of the Humanities
A C Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Master of New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. Until 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of...
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Professor Nicholas Humphrey
BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Professor Nicholas Humphrey is a theoretical psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His interests are wide ranging. He studied mountain gori...
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Professor Rebecca Goldstein
BA (Columbia), PhD (Princeton)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy & Literature
Professor Rebecca Goldstein is both a philosopher and a novelist. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University and has taught philosophy at Barnard College, Rutgers, and Trinity College in Hartford, Conn...
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Dr Brian Ball
BA (McGill), BPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Dr Brian Ball is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at New College of the Humanities. He received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University with Honours in Philosophy and a Minor Concentration in Linguistics, and on graduatio...
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Dr Paula Zoido Oses
BA (UC3M), MSc (LSE), PhD (LSE)
Visiting Lecturer in Politics & International Relations
Paula Zoido Oses is a Visiting Lecturer in Politics & International Relations at the New College of the Humanities, where she teaches Modern Political Thought. She has a BA in Humanities from Universidad Carlos III (...
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Dr Jason Xidias
BA (WVU), MA (SIU), PhD (KCL)
Visiting Lecturer in Politics & International Relations
Jason joined NCH in 2016 as a Visiting Tutor of EU Politics and is now Visiting Lecturer in Politics & International Relations. He gained his undergraduate degree in Political Science and Spanish from West Virginia U...
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Mr Marius Ostrowski
BA, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Lecturer in Politics & International Relations
Marius has been a Lecturer in Politics & International Relations at NCH since 2015, and an Examination Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, University of Oxford, since 2013. He recently completed a DPhil in Polit...
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Dr David Rampton
BA, MSc, PhD (SOAS)
Lecturer in World Politics
Dr David Rampton is a Lecturer in World Politics in the Politics & IR Faculty at New College of the Humanities where he coordinates and lectures on the undergraduate second year course, Old Powers, New Powers, Imperi...
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Dr Callum Barrell
BA, MPhil (Cantab), PhD (QMUL)
Lecturer in Politics & International Relations
Dr Barrell joined New College of the Humanities in September 2016 as Lecturer in Politics & International Relations, having taught here as Visiting Lecturer in 2015. He lectures on a range of subjects, from the histo...
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Dr Diana Bozhilova
BA (Hons), PhD (KCL)
Head of Faculty & Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
Diana has a first class honours degree with distinction in BA (Hons) European Studies with German and a PhD in ‘Justice and Home Affairs and Industrial Policy Reform’ from King’s College London, where she was joint...
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Dr Pablo Calderon-Martinez
BA (ITESO), MSc (LSE), PhD (KCL)
Visiting Lecturer in Politics & IR
Dr Calderon Martinez studied for his BA in International Relations at ITESO University, Mexico before completing a MSc in European Identities at the LSE. He then completed a PhD in Spanish and American Studies at King’...
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Dr Olly Ayers
BA (Manc), PhD (Kent)
Lecturer in History & Politics; Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Olly Ayers is a Lecturer in History. He received a first-class honours degree in history from the University of Manchester before completing a PhD in history at the University of Kent in 2013, where he was a Lecturer ...
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Dr Fintan Nagle
BSc, MSc (York), MRes (UCL), PhD (UCL)
Lecturer in Psychology
Dr Nagle is a vision scientist and cognitive psychologist with extensive experience with software engineering and machine learning. After an MSc in natural computation, he studied on the UCL CoMPLEX MRes+PhD programme, w...
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Professor Bettany Hughes
MA (Oxon) DUniv (York) FHA (Fellow of the Historical Association)
Visiting Professor of History
Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster, who has devoted the last 25 years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her speciality is ancient and mediaeval history and culture. A Scholar at ...
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Professor Simon Blackburn
BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Well known for his efforts to make philosophy accessible to a wider public, Simon is one of the country’s leading philosophers. He is well regarded as a proponent of a distinctive approach to ethics and a defender ...
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Professor Daniel Dennett
BA (Harvard), DPhil (Oxon)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Professor Daniel Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has held visiting positions at Harvard Univers...
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Professor Adrian Zuckerman
LLM (Jerusalem), MA (Oxon)
Visiting Professor of Law
Professor Zuckerman is a leading scholar on civil litigation and the administration of justice. His book, Zuckerman on Civil Procedure, is the foremost scholarly work on the subject and is regularly cited in the higher ...
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Professor Lawrence Krauss
BSc (Carleton), DPhil (MIT)
Visiting Professor of Science Literacy
Professor Lawrence Krauss has been a prominent critic of intelligent design and during the 2008 Presidential campaign he served on Barack Obama’s science policy committee. He is the only physicist ever to hold the hig...
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Professor Richard Dawkins
BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), FRS, FRSL
Visiting Professor of Science Literacy
Professor Richard Dawkins lectures for the Science Literacy Core Module at New College of the Humanities. A prize-winning evolutionary biologist, Richard is one of Britain’s best-known academics and was the inaugural P...
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Professor Peter Singer
BA, MA (Melbourne), BPhil (Oxon)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Professor Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash Univer...
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Professor Steven Pinker
BA (McGill), DPhil (Harvard)
Visiting Professor
Professor Pinker was born in Canada and took his BA in Psychology at McGill University before moving to the US to study for a PhD in Experimental Psychology at Harvard. He has subsequently taught at MIT, Harvard and Sta...
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Howard Jacobson
BA (Cantab)
Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
Mr Jacobson lists Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen and Dickens among his foremost inspirations, and has written variously about comedy, Australia, Jewishness and love. His novel, The Finkler Question (2010), won the Man Booke...
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Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta
BSc (Delhi), BA, MA, PhD (Cantab), FBA, FAAAS
Visiting Professor of Economics
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta was named a Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s 2002 Birthday Honours List for services to economics. He has the rare distinction of being a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Roy...
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Professor Nicholas Humphrey
BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Professor Nicholas Humphrey is a theoretical psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His interests are wide ranging. He studied mountain gori...
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Professor Sir Christopher Ricks
BA, MA, BLitt (Oxon), FBA
Visiting Professor of English
Sir Christopher Ricks delivers lectures for the English BA at New College of the Humanities. He is Warren Professor of the Humanities, and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University, having formerly bee...
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Sir Trevor Nunn
MA (Cantab)
Visiting Professor of Drama
Trevor Nunn is one of Britain’s most well-respected and influential theatre directors. After studying English under F R Leavis at Downing College, Cambridge, he became Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at...
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Professor Rebecca Goldstein
BA (Columbia), PhD (Princeton)
Visiting Professor of Philosophy & Literature
Professor Rebecca Goldstein is both a philosopher and a novelist. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University and has taught philosophy at Barnard College, Rutgers, and Trinity College in Hartford, Conn...
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