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.

I am working on a book covering the history of North-Western Europe from c. 400 A.D. to 1914. Recent publications include a chapter on ‘The Rhine-Moselle Borderlands’ in The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft (ed B. Levack), an article on ‘From Devilry to Sainthood: Mère Jeanne des Anges and the Catholic Reform’ in Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550-1900 (ed. M. Laven and E. Clark), and an article on ‘The Gallican Context for Pascal's Writings on Grace’ in Seventeenth Century French Studies. Other pieces in the press are contributions on social problems and policies in the later years of Louis XIV, and on emotions and witchcraft as they appear in Lorraine trial records. My current research interests are necessarily very wide, because I am writing a general book covering an immense span of European history. However I do also maintain a particular interest in seventeenth-century French history, with a more precise focus on the half-century of troubles from 1610-61. My next project is likely to be a book attempting to rethink aspects of this crucial period, where much recent work has added to our detailed knowledge, but there has been little in the way of changes to broader interpretations that now look dated and inadequate.

Paul Brand continued work on English legal history, publishing two articles and presenting papers in Erice (Sicily), Royaumont (France), Ann Arbor and Michigan (USA) and in Leeds, Glasgow and Harlaxton. He acted as graduate interviewer for medieval history for the Faculty of History in Oxford for 2012/13 and taught a legal history course at Ann Arbor in March and April 2013. In the summer of 2012 he became one of the lead investigators of a major three year AHRC-financed Magna Carta project.