Fiona Stafford

Fiona Stafford is Professor of English at Somerville College, University of Oxford. She specialises in literature of the Romantic period, as well as Place and Nature Writing, Environmental Humanities, Scottish and Irish literature. She is also a writer and broadcaster. Her latest books are Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape, and an Everyman edition of Byron's Travels. Earlier books include Jane Austen: A Brief Life; The Brief Life of Flowers; The Long, Long Life of Trees; Reading Romantic Poetry; Local Attachments. Recent work for Radio includes Front Row; In Our Time; The Volcanic Verses; The Story of Puddings; Composers and their Dogs; The Proms 2022. 

Updated 6.9.24