Fellow
Gillian Boughton
Gillian Boughton teaches in the Durham Department of Theology and Religion as an Honorary Fellow, directing the MA module Literature and Religion. She was a Resident Tutor at St John’s from 1983 – 1985 when studying for a Durham M Litt (later commuted into a PhD). She was elected Staff Representative on the St John’s College Council from 1988 until 2000.
She worked in St John’s College as Assistant and then Acting Senior Tutor from 1994 until 2000 alongside teaching in the Department of English Studies, completing her PhD in Durham in 1995: a diplomatic and critical edition of six unpublished 1860s MSS narratives by Mary Arnold, later Mrs Humphry Ward. Gillian is a founder member of the International Society for Literary Juvenilia and organised three of the current total of six international conferences in Durham,. Her more recent writing related to the Department of Theology teaching and interests have concerned the poetry of Stevie Smith and Elizabeth Jennings.
From 2000 until December 2013 she held the post of Vice-Principal and, as interregnum, Acting Principal of St Mary’s College. Here, she had a special pastoral involvement with the Durham Afghan Scholarship scheme.
