Dr. Jane Hughes

Biography

Jane Hughes is the President of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge and directs studies in English. She serves as the Pepys Fellow Librarian, overseeing the college's historic libraries. Hughes specializes in satire and comedy in literary theory and is currently writing a book on literary style. She has edited anthologies such as 'Contourlines' and published a short book on Samuel Pepys's library. As the Director of the Magdalene Triennial Festival, she focused on the theme of Sound in 2014-15. Hughes supervises undergraduate papers on medieval and Renaissance literary theory and dissertations for Part II students. Her research interests span various periods, including medieval, British, and European literature, with a particular focus on comic and satirical writing. She explores issues of form, genre, and style in her work and is writing a history of satire in the Middle Ages. Hughes has organized numerous conferences addressing formal aspects of literature and the application of modern literary theory to medieval texts.

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