Sophie Ratcliffe

Sophie is Fellow and Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of English where she teaches literature from the nineteenth century right up to now. She primarily works on ideas of feeling, readership, and the ways in which emotion may manifest itself in the mind and the body. Her book, On Sympathy (OUP, 2008), was on the subject of why reading matters to us, and she has a particular interest in the medical humanities. After editing the letters of P. G. Wodehouse in 2011, Sophie has been working on a number of projects - including a book about literature and medicine in the nineteenth century, and essays on themes ranging from abortion to inattention. She also reviews fiction, poetry, and criticism for the national press. Her personal website can be found at https://www.sophieratcliffe.com/