We are delighted to announce that Dr Kathryn Wills has been awarded an early-career The Professor CSP Hunter scholarship for 2024.

Kathryn Wills completed her doctorate in 2020, after a long career teaching in Catholic schools and completing several MA’s. She embarked on an academic career, passionately committed to Theology and Literature as a new engagement with human experience. She is an independent researcher which makes research in academic libraries problematic.  More at Dr Kathryn Wills - Blackfriars Hall (Oxford).

Dr Wills wrote:

I am currently researching for my next book on René Girard’s mimetic theory in the context of Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale and The Tempest, with a view to comparing his ideas with those of the French poet Yves Bonnefoy, who translated these plays into French and wrote introductions exploring an alternative reading of resurrection.

I am also researching for an article in The International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church on the nature of translation of liturgy and the new lectionary.

If you are also an early career scholar in either theology or philosophy, live within 3-hours travelling distance to our Library, at Mount Street (Mayfair) and want to benefit from Heythrop Library membership, please apply: see our page for criteria and the application process. 2 further early career Professor CSP Hunter Scholarships are available for starting any time in 2024.

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