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Professor Ros Ballaster

Ros Ballaster is currently Chair of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on 17th and 18th-century literature, including 'Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785' (Oxford: Oxford 	University Press, 2005) and 'Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction 1684-1740' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 1992). Her other interest include Restoration and Georgian theatre; women’s writing of the eighteenth century; oriental fiction of the eighteenth century; feminist criticism and theory; and popular and mass cultural forms (romance fiction, fairy tale, women’s magazines, television).

She has been Fellow of English at Mansfield College, Oxford, since 1993, and Professorial Fellow since 2009. From 1989 to 1993 she was Lecturer in English Literature, at the School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia.

Education Ros Ballaster attended the Abbey School, Reading, before gaining a place at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was awarded a first-class degree in English Literature in 1984. She went on to study for a DPhil at St Cross College, Oxford, which she received in 1989.

Radio In October 2017, Professor Ballaster was a contributor to the BBC Radio 4 programme 'In Our Time' [ref:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0977v4t]. She has also appeared on 'Women's Hour', also on BBC Radio 4.