Dr Paul Norris

My thesis examined the relationship between prose literature and architecture in the period 1580 to 1630. Authors of particular interest include John Donne, Lancelot Andrewes and Robert Burton. I was supervised by Prof. Kathryn Murphy and supported jointly by the Clarendon Fund, Brasenose College and the AHRC's Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership.

Before coming to Oxford I did my undergraduate and Masters degrees respectively at Queens’ College and Trinity College in Cambridge.

Publications:

Donne’s Architecture of Discernment’, Review of English Studies (pre-print online, January 2026)

‘The Senses of Sight in Lancelot Andrewes’ Sermons’, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Volume 44, Number 4, Autumn 2021, pp. 139–71

‘“All these unimportant details”: John Ashbery at Home’, English: Journal of the English Association, Volume 72, Issue 279, Winter 2023, pp. 165–86