Congratulations to alumni Shaw Worth (2021) and Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa (2024), who have been elected to Fellowships by Examination at All Souls College, Oxford.
Shaw read English at Magdalen as an undergraduate and remained for an interdisciplinary MSt in Medieval Studies. His research focuses on the courtly arts of England, France, and Burgundy in the period c. 1380–1500. Primarily, he works on poetry and fifteenth-century developments in both the formal technique and transmission patterns of Anglophone and Francophone love-lyric.
“It’s a tremendous privilege to have been elected and a huge stroke of luck,” said Shaw. “I would never have pursued the exam had it not been for the encouragement of a few tutors, in particular, Simon Horobin, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, and Kate Bennett.”
Mrinalini completed an MPhil in Intellectual History at Magdalen and All Souls. Her research examines the global intellectual history of “mystical India.” She reconstructs how India came to be identified with mysticism and spirituality between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries to sustain the mandates of imperial power and to formulate alternative universalisms that reimagined the social and political order.
Two All Souls Prize (or Examination) Fellowships are awarded annually, following a notoriously difficult two-day examination in which around 150 candidates sit four three-hour papers in both their academic subjects and ‘general’ papers.
We wish Shaw and Mrinalini the very best of luck in their new positions.