Shaw Worth
I have been an Examination Fellow at All Souls since 2025, where I am reading for a DPhil in late medieval English and French under Professors Jane Griffiths and Helen Swift. All my research concerns the history and experience of literary form, whether material (in the manuscript book or incunabulum), prosodic, generic, or interaesthetic. My doctoral project considers a number of these forms — proverbs, refrains, pageants, tapestries — exchanged at the courts of England, France, and Burgundy between c. 1450–1525 to reframe this patchy period of literary history. I am also working on a few side projects. In December 2026, I am convening an anniversary conference in College on the establishment of William Caxton’s English-European press at Westminster to yield a new literary companion to his work. Before All Souls, I took my BA and MSt in English and Medieval Studies from Magdalen College, Oxford.
Selected Publications
The Explicator, 83 (3), 2025, pp. 231–9