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:
Frances Leviston: Frances Leviston was born in Edinburgh in 1982 and grew up in Sheffield. She read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2006. Her first collection, Public Dream, was published by Picador in 2007, and was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her poems have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, as well as various anthologies – most recently Oxford Poets 2013 (Carcanet). Her second collection, Disinformation, is forthcoming from Picador. She lives in Manchester and works as a freelance critic and poetry tutor.
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.
Joy Chang: Joy Change reads English Literature at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Griffin Gudaitis: Griffin Gudaitis is pursuing an MPhil in English Studies (Medieval Period) at Oxford University. He is an emerging fiction writer whose short story titled “Burning” was shortlisted for the 2024 Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award.
Tom Stopford: Tom Stopford is an artist and illustrator living in Oxford. He is currently working on his forthcoming graphic novel.
Interviewed Expert:
John Holmes: John Holmes is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. He is an expert on the architecture of the Museum and its place in Victorian art and science. He has worked extensively with the Museum to draw out its heritage as one of the most imaginative and exciting works of both the Gothic Revival and the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and to realise this legacy in art and poetry today. More widely, he works on the relationship between literature, science and the arts over the last two hundred years, with particular interest in evolution, ecology and museums.