Contributors

 

Monika Class is a DPhil student in British and German Romanticism at Balliol College.

Jacob Foster is a DPhil student in mathematical physics at Balliol College, Oxford, and a PhD student in complexity science at the University of Calgary. His current interests range from the mathematical properties of complex networks to the geometry of the Big Bang.

Alexandra Harris is a DPhil student at Christ Church College, Oxford College. She is writing about English art and literature of the 1930s and ‘40s.

Andrew Hay is a DPhil student in English Literature at Balliol College. He works on issues of modernity in literary Modernism, and ideas of postmodern aesthetic/phenomenal experience.

Nanor Kebranian is a DPhil student in oriental studies at Pembroke College, Oxford, and executive editor of The Oxonian Review of Books. Her research deals with the work of Western Armenian writer Hagop Oshagan.

John-Paul McCarthy, DPhil student in History at Exeter College, is currently writing about Gladstone’s intellectual life. He is also working on a biography of Irish cabinet secretary Maurice Moynihan.

Justin B. Mutter is an M.Sc. student in the history of science, history and technology at Balliol College, Oxford.

Will Norman is a DPhil student in literature at New College, Oxford. His work focuses on Vladimir Nabokov and modernist figurations of time and history.

Michel Paradis is a DPhil student in linguistics at Balliol College, Oxford, and senior editor of The Oxonian Review of Books.

Matthew Pennycook is an MPhil student in International Relations at Balliol College, Oxford.

Alix Rule is a graduate in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford. She lives in London.

Peter Snow is associate fellow at Templeton College. A writer and journalist, he is the author of Oxford Observed.

Tim Soutphommasane is a DPhil student in political theory at Balliol College, Oxford, and editor-in-chief of The Oxonian Review of Books. His research deals with patriotism, nationality and culture.

 


 

Also in this Issue:

Warming Up to Al Gore
by Jacob Foster

The Making of Genocide
by Nanor Kebranian

Pitchers of Warm Piss
by John-Paul McCarthy

Unravelling Walter Benjamin
by Will Norman

Cosmopolitan or Clash of Civlisations?
by Tim Soutphommasane

Linguists and George W. Bush
by Michel Paradis

Picasso, the Critic, and the Pangolins
by Alexandra Harris

How to Be Happy
by Andrew Hay

International Grassroots Feminism?
by Alix Rule

Inside Lucky Jim
by Peter Snow

Crisis of the Charismatic
by Matthew Pennycook

The Life of Robert Southey
by Monika Class

Beyond Secularism
by Justin B. Mutter

From the Editor

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