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Dr Timothy Michael

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I have been a Fellow of Lincoln College since 2013, when I moved to Oxford from the United States. After undergraduate studies in English and Philosophy at New York University (BA, 2002) and graduate studies at Harvard University (PhD, 2009), I spent three years as a member of the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago.

College teaching

At Lincoln, I have the pleasure of teaching literature in English from 1760 to the present.  This consists mainly in offering classes and tutorials for the ‘Romantic’ (1760-1830), ‘Victorian’ (1830-1910), and ‘Modern’ (1910-present) papers.  I also give a number of lectures on Romantic literature throughout the year. At the postgraduate level, I offer MSt courses in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and supervise DPhil students working in those areas.

In my tutorial teaching, the focus is on the art and craft of criticism: for first-year students, this entails an emphasis on formal analysis and literary history; for second- and third-year undergraduates, it entails greater awareness of literature’s engagement with political and philosophical contexts.

Positions

  • Tutorial Fellow in English Literature
  • Editor of The Record

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