John Colley

I read for a BA in English at Jesus College, Oxford, winning Gibbs prizes for best overall performance and best performance in a timed exam. I then read for an MSt in English (650-1550) at Linacre College, Oxford, for which I held a Cecily Clark Studentship and Ruth and Nevill Mott Scholarship. My doctoral research focuses on humanism, English literature, and the translation of classical and patristic Greek from 1430 to 1560: writers of interest include Lydgate, Metham, Skelton, More, Elyot, and Mary Clarke Basset. More broadly, I’m interested in classical reception and book history in fourteenth-, fifteenth-, and sixteenth-century England. Alongside the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP award, I’m a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford and an Associate of the Royal College of Organists.