Dr Jane Hughes
College positions: Fellow, Director of Studies in English, Pepys Librarian, Keeper of the Old Library
University position: Affiliated Lecturer in English
Subject: English Literature
Group membership: Governing Body, Libraries Committee
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.
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.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire and Revolution, MEJ Hughes (Thames and Hudson: 2015).
The Pepys Library and Historic Collections, MEJ Hughes (Scala, 2015).
Contourlines: New Responses to Landscape in Word and Image, MEJ Hughes, ed. (Salt, 2010).
Figures of Speech: an Anthology, MEJ Hughes, ed. (2000).
Review of Andrew Brown, Roland Barthes: the Figures of Writing, MEJ Hughes, Magdalene Reporter (1996).
Furor, Reddo: Medieval Parody as Literary Benefactor, MEJ Hughes, Mediaevalia et Humanistica new series, 23 (1996), pp. 67-97.
Review of A G Rigg, History of Anglo-Latin Literature, MEJ Hughes, Notes and Queries (1995).
Style and Stance in Langland's Piers Plowman, MEJ Hughes, Yearbook of Langland Studies (1995), pp. 33-37.
Review of Robert & Linnet Latham Pepys Anthology, MEJ Hughes, Magdalene Reporter (1993).
The feffement that Fals hath ymaked: the image of the document in Piers Plowman, MEJ Hughes, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 93 (1992), pp. 125-133.
Counselling the King: Perceptions of Court Politics in Literature of the Court of Richard II, MEJ Hughes, in Gillian Jondorf and D N Dumville, eds., France and the British Isles in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1991), pp. 199-207.
Contributions to Ian Ousby, ed., The Cambridge Guide to English Literature, MEJ Hughes (CUP, 1988).
Email
mejh4@cam.ac.uk