Our Team
LitHits is a flagship innovation project within the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. It began life as an idea about how to connect young people with inspiring literature, and has since grown into a mission to create positive social impact on a global scale through reading.
Prof. Kirsten E. Shepherd
Professor of English and Theatre Studies, Faculty of English, University of Oxford and St Catherine's College
Currently reading: The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Dr. Alexandra Paddock
Lecturer in Old and Middle English, Keble College, University of Oxford
Currently reading: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Dr. Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla
Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool
Currently reading: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Dr. Natasha Bradley
Lecturer in English, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Currently reading: Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell