Dr Andrew J. Newell

BA (Lpool), MSt, DPhil (Oxon)

Andrew J. Newell is the Junior Research Fellow (J.R.F.) in Literature & Theology at Wycliffe Hall and the English Faculty at the University of Oxford.

Andrew arrived in Oxford in 2016 as the first English student at Wycliffe Hall. He completed his MSt in 2017, and his DPhil in 2022. His doctoral thesis is the first comprehensive study of the hymns of the English poet and man of letters, William Cowper (1731-1800).

Prior to his appointment as the Hall’s first J.R.F. in 2021, in 2019 Andrew was appointed ‘Inkling Scholar for Literature & Theology’. His research and teaching interests in the area of literature and theology are broad, and he has delivered lectures at Wycliffe Hall and elsewhere on topics and authors as diverse as late-eighteenth-century poetry, hymnology, museology, T. S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Charles Wesley, Elizabeth Bowen, and Frederick Buechner.

Following its launch in 2023, Andrew is the editor of The Buechner Review: an annual publication dedicated to the work of the American author, Frederick Buechner.