Dr Sophie Ratcliffe
Qualifications
MA (Cantab), M.Phil, D.Phil (Oxford)
Role or Position
Career Development Fellow in English
Email address
Academic Background
I gained my first degree at Cambridge University and my M.Phil and doctorate at Hertford College, Oxford. I held a Lectureship at Jesus College from 2002-2005, then a Research Fellowship and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Keble College, Oxford between 2005 and 2009. I moved to Christ Church in 2010.
Undergraduate Teaching
I teach nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century literature in English.
Research Interests
My major research interests are in the nineteenth century and I am currently working on a monograph about the idea of conscience in Victorian writing. Other research interests include the relationship between literature and emotion, and the medical humanities. For more details, please see my Faculty webpage: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/about-faculty/faculty-members/research-centre-college-staff/ratcliffe-dr-sophie
Publications include
On Sympathy (2008): http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199239870.do
P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters (2011): http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/pg-wodehouse-a-life-in-letters/9780091796341
I also review fiction, poetry and criticism for the national press.
Hobbies
Cooking, the visual arts, and making things.