Sir Geoffrey Hill
Professor of Poetry, Geoffrey Hill and Professor of the History of the Church, Diarmaid MacCullough, have both become KBEs as part of the New Year Honours List.
Professor Hill is most famous as the poet of collections such as Mercian Hymns and in 2010 was elected Professor of Poetry in a landslide election which saw him take over the post from Sir Christopher Ricks after the Ruth Padel smear controversy. Professor Hill, awarded the honour for “service to literature” has been described by the eminent critic Harold Bloom as “the strongest British poet now active.”
Professor MacCullough has also been made a Knight for services to scholarship, mainly concerning the role of the Church, especially during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Earlier this year he made headlines by refusing to give a lecture at McGill University in Canada after his book, A History of Christianity won a prestigious literary prize there, disagreeing with the University’s action in a labour dispute with some of its employees.
Chair of Electrical Engineering since 1997, Professor Lionel Tarassenko has also been honoured with a CBE. The St John’s tutor, who gained his BA and DPhil from Oxford, is a member of the Royal Society as well as being Director of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.
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