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Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Ye-Ye Xu, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
Humanities
Experiencing Time with Trees and Swans: Understanding Climate Change through Two Contemporary Novels
Charlotte Fraser, School of Geography and the Environment
Theatricality and Metatheatricality in the Old French fabliaux
Ramani Chandramohan, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Turmoil within and without: Modes of Human Resistance in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger and Rukhsana Ahmad's "Appearances"
Julia Merican, Faculty of English
Science
Viral-Mediated Gene Therapies for Paediatric Neurological Diseases
Theodora Markati, Department of Paediatrics
Social Science
Are basic emotions ingrained in the brain's architecture?
Conrado Eiroa Solans, Department of Experimental Psychology
Social Determinants of Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Evidence-Based Approach to Health Equity
Asad Moten (et al.), Medical Sciences Division
'Won't somebody please think of the gays!' Investigating the Experiences of LGBTQ+ Students in British Schools
Naomi Hoodless, Department of Education
Japan’s early involvement in the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development: a review from the perspective of neoclassical realism
Zhihang Wang, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Travel Report
New to Virtual Teaching
Dr Eleni Philippou, Faculty of English
Spark Reviews
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Spark Reviews are short 1,500 to 3,000-word commentaries on science, culture, and the arts which showcase the author’s individual writing style and analytical skills. Reviews might explore books, poems, plays, films, television series, exhibitions, music, video games, or other forms of creative expression the author finds personally or culturally significant. Authors accepted for publication are automatically entered into the journal’s annual Firework Competition for the chance to win a small cash prize.
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A Tibetan Sojourn with
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Football by the Numbers:
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Bullshit Jobs: A ReviewAugusta Nannerini
Alumna, Oxford Department of International Development Michaelmas 2021 Firework Competition 2021 Winner
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Cosmopolitan Reveries: Elegy, Epicureanism, and Exclusion in Zweig's The World of YesterdayJulia Merican
MSt in English Literature Michaelmas 2021 Firework Competition 2021 Runner-Up
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Four Seasons: a review of Oxford's Botanic GardensRamani Chandramohan
MSt in Modern Languages Michaelmas 2021 |
Creative Writing
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St Anne’s Academic Review publishes short stories, creative essays, and poems written by St Anne’s students and alumni. Original English translations of poetry or short fiction that are out of copyright, or for which the author has given permission to be published, are also welcome.
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Heat, No LightA short story by Georgia Brisco
MSt in Creative Writing |
Maybe we can stay friendsA prose poem by Alina Martin
MSt in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation |
Catallus in ParisPoetry translations by Edward Bell
Alumnus, Humanities Division |
Loneliness Makes us HumanA poem by Thisuri Perera
BA student in French and German |
Three poemsby Dr Adele Bardazzi
The Queen's College |
Editorial Team
Editor-in-ChiefYe-Ye Xu
MPhil, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Humanities / Creative WritingTrisevgeni Bilia
DPhil, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages Erin Nickalls
DPhil, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages ScienceLise Cazzoli
DPhil, Oxford Department of International Development Evmorfia Dalietou
DPhil, Medical Sciences Division |
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Volume 11: Academic Contributors
Ramani Chandramohan is an English Language assistant at the University of Lorraine and SciencesPo, Nancy. She completed an MSt in Modern Languages, a BA in Classics and French, both at St Anne’s, and took an Erasmus exchange at the Sorbonne University. Ramani also represented St Anne’s on University Challenge and won ‘Student of the Term Award’ (Stanner) twice. She hopes to make the study of languages and literature as accessible as possible, after having done outreach work while at Oxford.
Charlotte Fraser recently completed her MSc in Environmental Change and Management at Oxford. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, which has shaped her academic interest in the relationship between the arts and environmental change. Her MSc dissertation focused on community oriented housing in the UK and its contribution to residential sustainability. At St Anne’s, she enjoyed promoting sustainability as MCR Environmental Officer.
Theodora Markati is a medical doctor and neuroscientist from Greece who trained in Paediatrics in London and Cambridge. She completed an MPhil at the University of Cambridge where she looked at the molecular mechanisms involved in the development of neural networks. Now at Oxford, Dora is working on clinical studies and trials aiming to treat rare childhood diseases affecting the nervous system. Her hope is to see more efficient treatments for these diseases available for children throughout the world.
Julia Merican is a Malaysian-British writer from Kuala Lumpur who graduated from St Anne’s in 2021 with an MSt in post-1900 English literature. She is often moved by very little things, like letters found in secondhand books, or sunlight falling softly onto brick walls. Sometimes, she writes about them. She has also interviewed many interesting people for several publications. Her work has appeared in Cereal, Aesthetica, and The Oxford Review of Books, where she was also an editor.
Asad Moten, a member of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Division, is a commissioned officer and academic physician working for the United States Department of Defense. His research interests are in epidemiology, public health and safety, quality and operations improvement, ethics, justice and human rights, and evidence-based practice.
Conrado Eiroa Solans completed his MSc in Psychological Research at St Anne’s in 2021, specialising in the nature of human emotions. He holds a BA in Psychology from The College of St Scholastica, Duluth, and he has worked as a Research Assistant at the universities of Yale, Stanford, and Michigan. Outside of academia, Conrado enjoys spending time in the great outdoors, trekking the backcountry and hidden lands.
Zhihang Wang is a DPhil candidate at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, conducting a comparative study of Industrial Internet industry policies in Japan and China. His MSc in Japanese Studies, completed at St Anne’s, focussed on Japanese involvement in Central Asia as a case study of the interactions between government, semi-government institutions, and private sectors in Japan which shape the governmental and business strategies foreign regions. Zhihang is now affiliated with St Antony’s College.
Acknowledgements
St Anne’s Academic Review would like to thank everyone who took part in the Open Peer Review process for Volume 11. The expertise of peer reviewers was absolutely invaluable in the final re-drafting stages.
Below listed are some of the names of participating academics, and we extend our thanks to those individuals who wished to remain anonymous.
Reviews can be read online on the webpages for each academic article.
Below listed are some of the names of participating academics, and we extend our thanks to those individuals who wished to remain anonymous.
Reviews can be read online on the webpages for each academic article.
HumanitiesDr James Canton
University of Essex Dr William Ghosh University of Oxford Prof Adeline Johns-Putra Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; University of Hong Kong Dr Setara Pracha University of Buckingham Prof Kate Rigby Bath Spa University Dr Barry Sheils Durham University Dr Victoria Turner University of St Andrews |
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