Stephen Bernard

Stephen Bernard on the Isis - July 1995

Stephen Jarrod Bernard, MA, MSt, DPhil, FHEA (born 1975) is an Academic Visitor at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford. He studied English literature at Christ Church, Oxford, and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 2007, he won the international Review of English Studies essay prize for his first article in an academic journal.[1][2] In 2012, he won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, which he held in conjunction with a Junior Research Fellowship at University College, Oxford; whilst there he wrote The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015),[3] an edition based on his doctoral thesis,[4] for which he won the international biennial MLA Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters (2015–16).[5][6] He was general editor and editor of poems for The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, five vols. (London: Pickering Masters, 2017), published in 2017.[7]

In 2018, he published Paper Cuts a memoir[8] (London: Jonathan Cape, 2018),[9] which revealed that he had been the victim of sustained serial, clerical sexual abuse as a child, which had caused him severe mental illness which was treated with experimental ketamine infusions. After a concerted campaign by Bernard's abuser's last surviving relative, Ms Deidre McCormack,[10] Canon Thomas 'Dermod' Fogarty's headstone and memorial were destroyed by the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton on 24 May 2018.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Hood, Sir John (8 October 2008). ""Oration of the Vice-Chancellor", Oxford Gazette" (PDF). University of Oxford. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Faculty of English | Language & Literature". www.english.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  3. ↑ Bernard, Stephen, ed. (2015-03-26). The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198700852.
  4. ↑ Bernard, Stephen (2011). The correspondence of Jacob Tonson the elder (Thesis). Thesis DPhil--University of Oxford.
  5. ↑ Murphy, Kara. "International prize rankings". National Academy of Sciences and the Humanities. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  6. ↑ "MLA press release" (PDF). 5 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe (Hardback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  8. ↑ "Paper Cuts, A Memoir by Stephen Bernard". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  9. ↑ "Paper Cuts, A Memoir by Stephen Bernard". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  10. ↑ Campbell, Colin (2018-03-01). "Clergyman's headstone 'should be smashed'". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  11. ↑ "Church destroys accused priest's headstone". BBC News. 2018-06-05. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
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