Karen O'Brien

Karen Elisabeth O'Brien is a British academic administrator and scholar of English literature, specialising in the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century literature.[1] Since 2016, she has been Professor of English Literature and Head of the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of University College, Oxford.[2][3]

In May 2021, it was announced that she has been appointed Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University: she will take up office on 4 January 2022 and will be the first woman to head the university.[4][5] Prior to her time at Oxford, she was a pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Birmingham[1] and then Vice-Principal for Education at King's College London.[4][2] O'Brien's work focuses on the British, American and French Enlightenments, and on British literature more generally between 1660 and 1820.[6]

Selected works
  • O'Brien, Karen (1997). Narratives of enlightenment: cosmopolitan history from Voltaire to Gibbon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521465335.
  • O'Brien, Karen (2009). Women and Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521773492.
  • Garside, Peter; O'Brien, Karen, eds. (2015). English and British fiction: 1750-1820. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199574803.
  • O'Brien, Karen; Young, Brian, eds. (2018). The Cambridge companion to Edward Gibbon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107035119.

References
  1. "Professor Karen O'Brien". Humanities Division. University of Oxford. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  2. "Professor Karen O'Brien". Faculty of English. University of Oxford. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  3. Ffrench, Andrew (20 May 2016). "Head of humanities appointed at Oxford University". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  4. "Durham appoints new Vice-Chancellor and Warden". Durham University News. Durham University. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  5. Finnegan, Sophie (5 May 2021). "Durham University reveals new Vice-Chancellor and Warden". Evening Chronicle. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  6. "Karen O'Brien". The RSA. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
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