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Pacifica continues The Great Conversation with a lecture and Q&A featuring Dr. Andrew J Newell.

Andrew J. Newell BA (Hons) (Lpool), MSt, DPhil (Oxon) is the Junior Research Fellow (J.R.F.) in Literature & Theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and holds the post of J.R.F. at the Oxford University English Faculty.

Andrew arrived in Oxford in 2016 as the first English student at Wycliffe Hall. He completed his MSt in 2017, and his DPhil in 2022. His doctoral research was the first comprehensive study of the hymns of the English poet and man of letters, William Cowper (1731-1800).

Prior to his appointment as the Hall’s first J.R.F. in 2021, in 2019 Andrew was appointed ‘Wycliffe Hall Inkling Scholar for Literature and Theology’.

Andrew's research interests in the area of literature and theology are broad, and he has delivered lectures and papers at Wycliffe Hall and elsewhere on topics and authors as diverse as eighteenth-century poetry, hymnology, hagiography, museology, literary theory, Charles and John Wesley, William Cowper, Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, John le Carré, and Frederick Buechner.

Currently, Andrew is working on a number of research topics, including: theological verse in the eighteenth century, reception of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress in the eighteenth century, and concepts of heaven in the eighteenth century.

PLEASE NOTE: The student introducing Dr. Newell is name Paden Kane. His name is misspelled within the video.