St Hilda’s Alumnae Honoured as Fellows of the British Academy

We are delighted to extend heartfelt congratulations to two distinguished senior members of the St Hilda’s community.

This year, the British Academy welcomed 92 new Fellows, including 58 from UK institutions, across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Eight of those elected are from the University of Oxford, including Professor Rosalind Margaret Ballaster and Professor Alison Grace Salvesen.

Professor Rosalind Margaret Ballaster (1981, English)
Professor Ballaster is now a Professorial Fellow in English at Mansfield College. She has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her groundbreaking research on eighteenth‑century literature, women’s writing, and Georgian theatre. Her editions of works by Jane Austen, Delarivier Manley, and Aphra Behn are widely acclaimed.

Professor Alison Grace Salvesen (1979, Oriental Studies)
Professor Salvesen is a Supernumerary Fellow at Mansfield College, specialising in early Judaism and Christianity within the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Her election to the British Academy honours her influential scholarship on biblical interpretation and ancient texts.

Congratulations to Professors Ballaster and Salvesen!