Professor Bart van Es is a Professor of English Literature at Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College. Professor van Es has written academic books on Spenser and Shakespeare, and he is also the author of the part-memoir-part-history book, The Cut Out Girl, which won the 2018 Costa Book of the Year Award. Professor van Es will be joined in conversation by Dr Margaret Coombe, Director of the Oxford Study Skills Centre, and will discuss his latest book and the process of writing it.

The conversation will also consider the craft of writing and writing more generally: how writers write, the different types of writing, and how everyone from aspiring writers to reluctant writers of tutorial essays can get busy writing.

This talk is part of the Oxford Study Skills Centre’s Michaelmas ‘19 Talk Series.