We’re very pleased to announce that four St Anne’s Fellows have been made full Professors in this year’s Recognition of Distinction Exercise, while Professor Freya Johnson, currently our Dean, will be stepping down from that role to take up a new appointment as the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Education.
Professor Freya Johnston
Professor Johnston is Professor of English and Hazel Eardley-Wilmot Tutorial Fellow at St Anne’s College. Professor Johnston has served as Associate Head (Education) of the Humanities Division (2023-5), Dean of St Anne’s College (2023-5), Junior Proctor (2020-21), Director of Graduate Studies in English (2014-17), and Deputy Chair of Faculty Board (2013-14). Her research centres on literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially the works of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen. She is co-editor, with Seamus Perry and Christopher Ricks, of the quarterly journal Essays in Criticism (Oxford University Press).
As Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education), Professor Johnston is responsible for the University’s strategies and policies for teaching, learning, admissions and student support.
Professors Volker Deringer, Siân Grønlie, and Simon Park
The University of Oxford’s Recognition of Distinction (RoD) exercise is an annual process to award the title of full professor to individuals who demonstrate a sustained and significant academic contribution at the university, meeting the standards of leading international institutions in research, teaching, and citizenship. Eligible applicants, including academic and senior research staff and some non-employees with significant contributions, apply through their academic division.
This year, three St Anne’s Fellows were successful in the exercise:
Many congratulations to them all!