Research Interests
- Specialisms: Medieval, British, European, and Latin literature.
- Research interests: Comic and satiric writing across all periods, with a focus on form, genre, and style.
- Additional interests: Some aspects of book collecting.
Dr Jane Hughes
Dr Jane Hughes is the Director of Studies in English at Magdalene.
Dr Jane Hughes is the Pepys Fellow Librarian at Magdalene College, where she is responsible for the College’s two historic libraries and directs studies in English. Her research focuses on satire, comedy, and literary theory, and she is currently writing a book on literary style. She has edited two anthologies, including Contourlines (co-edited with Neil Wenborn), a collection of contemporary poetry on the landscape. She has also published a short book on Samuel Pepys's library.
Selected Publications
MEJ Hughes, articles for Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire and Revolution (Thames and Hudson: 2015)
MEJ Hughes, The Pepys Library and Historic Collections (Scala, 2015)
MEJ Hughes, ed., Contourlines: New Responses to Landscape in Word and Image,Salt, 2010
MEJ Hughes, ed. Figures of Speech: an Anthology, 2000
MEJ Hughes, "Review of Andrew Brown, Roland Barthes: the Figures of Writing", Magdalene Reporter, 1996
MEJ Hughes, "Furor, Reddo: Medieval Parody as Literary Benefactor", Mediaevalia et Humanistica new series 23, 1996, 67-97
MEJ Hughes, "Review of A G Rigg, History of Anglo-Latin Literature", Notes and Queries, 1995
MEJ Hughes, "Style and Stance in Langland's Piers Plowman", Yearbook of Langland Studies, 1995, 33-7
MEJ Hughes, "Review of Robert & Linnet Latham Pepys Anthology", Magdalene Reporter, 1993
MEJ Hughes, "The feffement that Fals hath ymaked: the image of the document in Piers Plowman", Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 93, 1992, 125-33
MEJ Hughes, "Counselling the King: Perceptions of Court Politics in Literature of the Court of Richard II", Gillian Jondorf and D N Dumville, eds., France and the British Isles in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1991, 199-207
MEJ Hughes, Contributions to Ian Ousby,ed.,The Cambridge Guide to English Literature, CUP, 1988