One of the best things about Emmanuel is the
beautiful grounds, and the College
swimming pool is fantastic
Professor Barry Windeatt
MA, LittD
Life Fellow; Keeper of Rare Books
Emeritus Professor of English
Biography
Barry Windeatt is Keeper of Rare Books and is preparing a catalogue of the Graham Watson Collection of hand-coloured books c.1770-1840 in Emmanuel College Library, as well as revising the catalogue of the College’s portraits and pictures.
At various times he has been Director of Studies in English (1979-97), a Tutor (1982-95), Vice-Master, and Chair of the Research Fellowships Committee (2013-20), and more briefly: Acting Admissions Tutor in Arts (1991), Financial Tutor (1992-3), Acting Graduate Tutor (1993), and has acted as Fellow Librarian and Archivist.
Research
His research focusses on the literature of later medieval England in its European dimension and also in relation to its contemporary visual culture, with particular interests in Chaucer and in such contemplative writers as Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.
He is currently completing two projects: a cultural history of text and image in medieval East Anglia, and a study of gesture and body language in medieval writing.
Spotlights
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Dr Tobias Wauer
It’s 8pm and I’m about to start a 12-hour shift at the national COVID-19 testing centre in Milton Keynes. Truckloads of boxes with transparent plastic bags just arrived and a brief announcement is made: 15,000 patient swabs. For now, the mood among the team is cheerful and enthusiastic, but I know it will have morphed into exhaustion and fatigue by the end of the night.