job – Daniel Sawyer

In October, I’ll take up a new job: Departmental Lecturer in English Literature and Manuscript Studies, 650–1550, in Oxford’s English Faculty. A bit of a mouthful, but I’m glad they fitted the ‘English Literature’ bit in there.

I’ll be teaching the Faculty master’s module in palaeography, codicology, and textual criticism, and, around that, also contributing to undergraduate lectures and tutorials on verse form, lyric, and manuscripts.

This change means I will also leave Merton College, which has been my home since January 2019. Thanks to covid, January 2019 lies an unimaginably long time ago, and I’ll miss Merton’s community and the admirable students that I’ve had the great luck to teach there. Happily, though, I shall move to St Hilda’s College, where I studied for my master’s and doctorate, as an Associate Research Fellow. I’ve very fond memories of graduate study at St Hilda’s, and I look forward to returning to the college in a new position.

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In June I’ll be starting work as the Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the ‘Towards a New Edition of the Wycliffite Bible’ project, based in Oxford’s English Faculty. I’ll be the junior member of a team of three, working with Elizabeth Solopova (the PI) and Anne Hudson (the co-investigator). The Wycliffite Bible is a late-fourteenth-century translation of the Latin Vulgate into Middle English: the first English Bible. It’s a complex and important text, but research is hampered by the fact that there is only one full edition, which was published in 1850. This edition was good for its time but has now been rather overtaken by later scholarship. We will begin (begin) producing a new edition of the whole thing by establishing a framework for the task and editing four books.

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