Dr Paul Norris

As research coordinator, I help to administer the work of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, and send weekly emails during term-time on early modern events in Oxford.

As a doctoral student at the English Faculty, 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.

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)

‘An Apology for Logic’, Cambridge Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 2, 2025, pp. 176–185

‘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