Esme Rhodes: Esme Rhodes is an actress featuring herein as Eloise Weaver. She recently graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in History. Recent credits include 'Skeleton Crew' at the Edinburgh Fringe (2024), the Weston Library's 'A New Power: Photography in Britain 1800-1850' (2023), and 'Having the Last Word' (2024).
Judith Bunting: Judith Bunting is a screenwriter, with a background as a writer, director, and producer of award-winning content for TV and VOD.
Writers:
Dorothy L. Sayers: Dorothy L. Sayers was a 20th century author of detective fiction and the founder of The Detection Club. The Detection Club was a literary forerunner to The Inklings, a well-known male club for writers (C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien among them). She was one of the first women to (almost) graduate from the University of Oxford. Sayers was a translator, playwright and critic. She produced a foundational and critically acclaimed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy in colloquial English.
Simon Armitage: Simon Armitage was named UK Poet Laureate in 2019. The recipient of numerous honours and awards, Armitage was named the Millennium Poet in 1999, a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature in 2004, and a Commander of the British Empire in 2010. In 2014 he was awarded the Cholmondeley Award. Armitage has taught at the University of Leeds, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Princeton University, and Manchester Metropolitan University. His Oxford lectures are available online in the University of Oxford podcast series Poetry with Simon Armitage.
Anne Maduzia: Anne Maduzia read English Literature at Jesus College, where she was a Clarendon Scholar. Since reading at Oxford, she has lived and worked in France, Norway, and the United States.
Dr. April Elisabeth Pawar: April Pawar is the Founder of the Oxford Writers’ House. She graduated from St. Anne’s College, Oxford in 2016 with a DPhil in English Literature.
Interviewed Experts:
Professor Mo Moulton: Professor Moulton is a Professor of Modern British and Irish History at the University of Birmingham. After studying history at MIT, Professor Moulton worked in the non-profit sector, mainly on campaign financing, in San Francisco and New York. They earned a PhD, funded in part by the SSRC and a Mellon grant, from Brown University under the supervision of Professor Deborah Cohen. From 2010 to 2016, they taught at Harvard University’s History and Literature program. Professor Moulton specialises in the social and cultural history of Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Dr Jem Bloomfield: Dr Jem Bloomfield teaches at The University of Nottingham, where he specialises in British and detective fantasy fiction. He has previously taught at Oxford Brookes University, the University of Exeter and the University of Southern New Hampshire. He studied at Oxford and Exeter, writing his PhD on the production history of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.
