Dr. Christine Gerrard

Biography

Professor Christine Gerrard teaches English Literature at the University of Oxford, where she is also the Barbara Scott Fellow and a Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. Her research focuses on 18th-century poetry, American literature, the political literature of the long eighteenth century, and women's writing from that period. She has co-edited a volume with Professor Robert Frodeman, set to be published by Oxford University Press in 2027, which tackles urgent questions about the function of universities and the challenges and opportunities posed by Big Tech and Artificial Intelligence. Her interest extends to the intersection of AI and creativity, particularly within European cultural organizations. Gerrard has completed scholarly articles on figures such as Swift and Walpole and is currently finalizing a work on the Oxford History of English Poetry covering the Eighteenth Century. She supervises dissertation topics within the literature written between 1660 and 1830, and her teaching interests include American Literature from 1680 to 1900 alongside a joint degree in Classics and English.

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