fellows’ research and PuBlications

Ros BALLAsTER

Professor of 18thCentury Studies and Tutorial Fellow in English

Ros was awarded £5625 from Oxford University Fell Fund to run a workshop at Mansfield College on October 5th-6th 2013 on ‘Theatre and Novel in Georgian England’.

Recent Publications

‘Taking Liberties: Revisiting Behn’s Libertinism’, in Women’s Writing, 19, no.2 (2012).

‘Rivals for the Repertory: Theatre and Novel in Georgian London’, in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, 27, no.1 (2013).

‘“Heart-Easing Mirth”: Charm in the Eighteenth Century’, in Essays in Criticism 63:3 (July 2013).

PAM BERRY

Supernumerary Fellow in Geography

Pam led the team undertaking the research that informed the UK Adaptation Sub-Committee’s report ‘Managing the Land in a Changing Climate’, which addresses the use of land to continue to deliver important goods and services in the face of a changing climate – supplying food and timber, providing habitat for wildlife, storing carbon in the soil, and coping with sea-level rise on the coast.

Recent Publications

Berry, P., Ogawa-Onishi, Y. and McVey, A. ‘The Vulnerability of Threatened Species: Adaptive Capability and Adaptation Opportunity’ in Biology, 2(3) (2013).

Ogawa-Onishi, Y. and Berry, P.M. ‘Ecological Impacts of Climate Change in Japan: the Importance of Integrating Local and International Publications’ in Biological Conservation, 157 (2013).

Berry, P. ‘Habitat Sensitivity to Climate Change’ in Ellwanger, G., Symank, A. and Paulsch, C. (eds.) Natura 2000 and Climate Change – a Challenge (2012).

PAuL LoDgE

Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy

Recent Publications

Leibniz’s Correspondence with De Volder. Edition and translation based on manuscript sources (Yale, 2013).

‘Corporeal Substances as Monadic Composites in Leibniz’s Later Philosophy,’ in (ed.) Nita A. Between Continuity and Transformation: Leibniz on Substance and Substantial Forms (Springer, 2013 ).

DAvID LEoPoLD

John Milton Fellow and Tutorial Fellow in Politics

Recent Publications

‘Marx’, in (eds.) Gaus J. and D’Agostino F., Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy (Routledge, 2013).

‘Education and Utopia’, in (eds.) Brooke C. and Frazer E., Ideas of Education: Philosophy and Politics from Plato to Dewey (Routledge, 2013).

‘Marxism and Ideology’ in (eds.) Freeden M., Stears M., and Tower Sargent L., The Oxford Handbook to Political Ideologies (OUP, 2013).

ANDREW gosLER

Supernumerary Fellow in Human Sciences

Andrew has just secured a £600,000 grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to establish EWA – the Ethnoornithology World Archive. The EWA is an interdisciplinary collaborative project linking the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, BirdLife International, the Endangered Languages Project (ELAR) at SOAS, and Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. It will be a free-access, global database of culturally-relevant data relating to birds. Its formation will involve the development of grass-root networks of conservationists and local communities empowering people to engage in bird conservation in a culturallyrelevant way. EWA will facilitate the use of Local and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in conservation research and practice, promote research in ethno-ornithology, and act as an innovative public-facing web-based access to the data.

HELEN MARgETTs

Professorial Fellow in Society and the Internet

Recent Publications

Margetts, H., and Dunleavy, P. ‘The Second Wave of Digital-Era Governance: a Quasi-Paradigm for Government on the Web’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 371 (2013).

Margetts, H. John, P. and Hale, S. ‘Leadership without Leaders: Starters and Followers in Online Collective Action’ in Political Studies: 64(4) (2013).

Margetts, H. ‘The Internet and Democracy’, in Dutton W. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies (OUP, 2013).

HELEN LAcEY

Supernumerary Fellow in Late Medieval History

In 2013 Helen completed her AHRC Early Career Fellowship (January 2012-April 2013).

Recent Publications

‘Political Consciousness and Official Forms of Writing in Later Medieval England’ in Cahiers électroniques d’histoire textuelle du LAMOP (CEHTL), Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris, Institut de Traditions Textuelles, Villejuif, Université Paris 1 (2013).

JAMEs MARRoW

Professorial Fellow in Materials Science

James has received an EPSRC award for his research project ‘QUBE: QUasiBrittle fracture: a 3D ExperimentallyValidated Approach’.

Recent Publications

Mostafavi, M., McDonald, S.A., Çetinel, H., Mummery, P.M., Marrow, T.J. ‘Flexural Strength and Defect Behaviour of Polygranular Graphite under Different States of Stress’ in Carbon, 59 (2013).

Duff, J.A., Marrow, T.J. ‘In Situ Observation of Short Fatigue Crack Propagation in Oxygenated Water at Elevated Temperature and Pressure’ in Corrosion Science, 68 (2013).

MIcHèLE MENDELssoHN

Tutorial Fellow in English

In 2014, Michèle will be the Donald C. Gallup Fellow in American Literature at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. There, she will examine archives relevant to her project on early 20th-century African American writers.

Recent Publications

‘Oscar Wilde, Henry James and the Fate of Aestheticism’ in Powell K. and Raby P. (eds.) Oscar Wilde in Context (CUP, 2013).

‘Beautiful Souls Mixed up with Hooked Noses: Art, Degeneration and Anti-Semitism in Trilby and The Master’ in Victorian Literature and Culture 40.1 (2012).

‘Notes on Oscar Wilde’s Transatlantic Gender Politics’ in Journal of American Studies 46.1 (2012).

sTEPHEN BLuNDELL

Professorial Fellow in Physics

Stephen was awarded a research council grant to upgrade substantially the Nicholas Kurti Magnetic Field Laboratory that provides access to the highest magnetic fields available within the UK. He also appeared as one of the guests on Melvyn Bragg’s BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time in March 2013, which was devoted to the subject of ‘Absolute Zero’; this is still available as a podcast.

Recent Publications

Burrard-Lucas M., Free D. G., Sedlmaier S. J., Wright J. D., Cassidy S. J., Hara Y., Corkett A. J., Lancaster T., Baker P. J., Blundell S. J. and Clarke S. J. ‘Enhancement of the Superconducting Transition Temperature of FeSe by Intercalation of a Molecular Spacer Layer’ in Nature Materials 12 (2013).

Pratt F. L., Lancaster T., Blundell S. J., and Baines C. ‘Low-Field Superconducting Phase of (TMTSF)2ClO4’ in Physical Review Letters 110, 107005 (2013).

Blundell S. J., Möller J. S., Lancaster T., Baker P. J., Pratt F. L., Seber G. and Lahti P. M., ‘μSR Study of Magnetic Order in the Organic QuasiOne-Dimensional Ferromagnet F4BImNN’ in Physical Review B 88, 064423 (2013).

kATHERINE MoRRIs

Supernumerary Fellow in Philosophy

Recent Publications

‘Anorexia: Beyond the Body Uncanny’ (commentary on Fredrik Svenaeus’ ‘Anorexia and the Body Uncanny’) in Philosophy, Psychology, Psychiatry (2013).

‘Body Image Disorders’ in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (eds.) Fulford K.W.M. et al (OUP, 2013).

JAsoN sMITH

Hewlett Packard Tutorial Fellow in Materials Science

Details about Jason’s research group, the Photonic Nanomaterials Group, can be found at www-png.materials.ox.ac.uk

Recent Publications

Grazioso F., Patton B. R., Delaney P., Markham M. L., Twitchen D. J., and Smith J. M. ‘Measurement of the Full Stress Tensor in a Crystal Using Photoluminescence from Point Defects: The Example of Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond, in Applied Physics Letters 103, 101905 (2013).

Wildanger D., Patton B. R., Schill H., Marseglia L., Hadden J. P., Knauer S., Schönle A., Rarity J. G., O’Brien J. L., Hell S. W., and Smith J. M., ‘Solid Immersion Facilitates Fluorescence Microscopy with Nanometre Resolution and Sub-Angstrom Emitter Localization, in Advanced Materials 24, OP309 (2012).

Di Z. Y., Jones H. V., Dolan P. R., Fairclough S. M., Wincott M. B., Fill J., Hughes G. M., and Smith J. M., ‘Controlling the Emission from Semiconductor Quantum Dots Using UltraSmall Tunable Optical Microcavities, in New Journal of Physics 14, 103048 (2012).

JoEL RAsMussEN

Tutorial Fellow in Theology & Religion

Recent Publications

‘Kierkegaard, Hegelianism, and the Theology of Paradox’ in The Impact of Idealism: The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought, vol.4 (eds.) Adams N., Boyle N., and Disley L. (CUP, 2013).

‘Mysticism as a Category of Inquiry in the Philosophies of Ernst Troeltsch and William James’ in Exploring Lost Dimensions in Christian Mysticism: Opening to the Mystical, (eds.) Nelstrop L. and Podmore S. (Ashgate, 2013).

ALIsoN sALvEsEN

Supernumerary Fellow in Oriental Studies

Recent Publications

‘The Role of Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion in Modern Commentaries on the Bible’ in Let Us Go Up to Zion: Essays in Honour of H.G.M. Williamson on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, (eds.) Provan I. and Boda M. (Brill, 2012).

‘Did Aquila and Symmachus Shelter Under the Rabbinic Umbrella?’ in Greek Scripture and the Rabbis, (eds.) Law, Timothy M. Law and Salvesen, Alison G, CBET 66 (Peeters Press, 2012).

‘Textual and Literary Criticism and the Book of Exodus: The Role of the Septuagint’ in Biblical Interpretation and Method: Essays in Honour of John Barton, (eds.) Joyce, P.M. and Dell K. (OUP, 2013).

RIcHARD PoWELL

Tutorial Fellow in Geography

In 2013, Richard received the Gill Memorial Award from the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) for ‘research in historical and Polar geography’. The Gill Memorial Award is given for the encouragement of geographical research in early-career researchers (within 10 years of completing their PhD) who have shown great potential.

Recent Publications

‘Questions on the Canon?’ in Dialogues in Human Geography 2(3), (2012).

‘Echoes of the New Geography? History and Philosophy of Geography I,’ in Progress in Human Geography 36(4), (2012).

Dodds, K. and Powell, R.C. ‘Polar Geopolitics: New Researchers on the Polar Regions’ in The Polar Journal 3(1), (2013).