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St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow to give Dorothy Whitelock Lecture 2025

St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow and alumna, Professor Jane Roberts (English Language and Literature, 1959) will give this year’s Dorothy Whitelock Lecture on: ‘Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us’. The lecture will take place on Wednesday 3 December at 5.15pm at St Peter’s College Chapel, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, OX1 2DL. It will be followed by a drinks reception.

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The lectures in this series honour Professor Dorothy Whitelock’s remarkable contributions to medieval studies and to improving the status of female scholars at Oxford and beyond. Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982) was a brilliant interdisciplinary scholar whose pioneering work combined literary, philological, historical and archaeological study. For more information, please click here.

Jane Roberts is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of London and honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of English Studies. She is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the English Association; an honorary member of  Japan Medieval English Society; and an honorary senior research fellow in the English Language department of the University of Glasgow. In 2022, Professor Roberts was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Professor Roberts is author of A Thesaurus of Old English with Christian Kay (1995; now on-line) and one of the four editors of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (2009). Other publications include The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book (1979) and A Guide to Scripts used in English Writings up to 1500 (2005; 2015).

A list of publications may be found at https://research.sas.ac.uk/search/fellow/163