Pro-Proctor to the Junior Proctor

Kate McLoughlin is a Professor of English Literature, an Official Fellow of Harris Manchester College and a lecturer at Jesus College.  She has served as Chair of Prelims for the English Faculty and Tutor for Graduates at Harris Manchester.  Currently, she is a Vice-Chair of the University Student Disciplinary Panel.  Her undergraduate and doctoral degrees were at Somerville; her Master's was at St John's College, Cambridge; she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol; and is a life-member of the common room at Wolfson.  She qualified as a barrister and worked for the UK Government Legal Service for seven years, with stints at the European Commission in Brussels, the Conseil d'État in Paris and the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel.  Her early research was in war writing, producing three monographs, and she has recently completed Silence: A Literary History, an exploration of literary silences over twelve centuries.  She is currently working on a short book about talking too much and thinking about her next major project, which will concern literary and other vocations.