College News
Mansfield wins global award for campaign to secure its future as the leader in widening participation to Oxford University
2025
Alison and Ros are among eight Oxford academics elected this year, recognised for their outstanding research and long-standing contributions to their fields.
Reflecting on the recognition, Ros shared:
“Alison and I are both graduates of St Hilda's and have spent our careers teaching and supervising students at Mansfield College in Asian and Middle Eastern studies and English literature respectively. We’re delighted to have been recognised in this way for our research and dedication to our subjects by the British Academy.”
In total, the British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows this year, including 58 from 25 universities across the UK. Learn more about this year’s cohort here.
About Professor Ros Ballaster
Ros is Professorial Fellow in English at Mansfield College. She has published widely on fiction, theatre, and women’s writing in the eighteenth century. She has also edited works by Jane Austen, Delarivier Manley and is editing a prose fiction work for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn.
About Professor Alison Salvesen
Alison is a Supernumerary Fellow of Mansfield College in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. She has had a long-standing interest in translations and ancient interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. She has contributed to several teaching programmes, mainly at graduate level, and coordinates the MSt in Bible Interpretation for the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern studies.
