My book Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert was published by Allen Lane / Penguin in 2013. I am now working on an edition of Herbert’s complete poetry for Penguin Classics, due to be published in 2014.

Apart from teaching, Wolfgang de Melo has spent the last academic year working on his edition and translation of Varro's De lingua Latina. A draft of text and translation is almost finished, but will require further work before a commentary accompanying the text can be started.

I am a theoretical physicist who applies the methods of quantum field theory to problems in statistical and condensed matter physics. In the past I helped develop the tools of conformal field theory which had applications also to string theory and black holes. In recent years I have investigated questions of quantum entanglement and non-equilibrium behaviour in many-body systems such as quantum spin chains and ultra-cold atoms.

Fraser Campbell KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers in London. He specialises in commercial disputes, and is also experienced in judicial review cases. Prior to being appointed silk in March 2025, he was a member of the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Counsel. He serves on the Advisory Board of the legal mentoring charity Lawyers Who Care, and as a trustee of the charitable trust that oversees the Oxford Union. His current research interests focus on the control of powers in private law: he is a contributor to the forthcoming next edition of the textbook Thomas on Powers (Oxford University Press).

I work on Renaissance literature, and have a particular interest in classical influences on English writing. I have edited the poems of Shakespeare for the Oxford Shakespeare and of Ben Jonson for the Cambridge Ben Jonson, and have published widely on English writers from 1500-1700. I am presently working on two large projects: a history of Elizabethan literature for the Oxford English Literary History and a study of the idea and practice of literary imitation.