Wadham announces six new Honorary Fellows

Professor Connor is a leading figure in twentieth and twenty-first century English and cultural studies. He was Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, Academic Director of the London Consortium Graduate Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies, and Grace 2 Professor of English at Cambridge from 2012 to 2022. From 2018 to 2022, Professor Connor served as Director of CRASSH. His work spans magical thinking, the history of medicine, material imagination, relations between culture and science, literature and technology, sound and auditory media, and collective feeling. Professor Connor's recent publications include Dream Machines (2017), The Madness of Knowledge (2019), Giving Way (2019), A History of Asking (2023), Dreamwork (2023), and Styles of Seriousness (2023). He is currently working on Nathaniel Fairfax, a seventeenth-century physician and Royal Society correspondent.

Professor Edith Hall specialises in ancient Greek literature and its continuing impact in the modern world. She has published more than thirty books and is widely recognised for making Classics accessible and inclusive. Professor Hall's research focuses on ecological themes in ancient myth and drama, Aristotle’s influence, the afterlives of women in the Aeneid, and Classics and social class in the North East of England. In April 2023, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize.

Liza Marshall founded Hera Pictures, one of the UK’s leading film and television production companies, with a focus on promoting women’s careers and telling women’s stories. She produced the 2025 adaptation of Hamnet, which won the 2026 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. Liza Marshall previously led Scott Free London for Ridley Scott and was Head of Drama at Channel 4. Her productions have received multiple BAFTA nominations and awards.

Lissa Muscatine served as a Presidential speechwriter and senior communications adviser, including as chief speechwriter to Hillary Rodham Clinton. She is notably remembered for drafting the 1995 Beijing speech asserting that human rights are women’s rights. She later collaborated on Living History, worked on the 2008 presidential campaign, and served at the US Department of State. Lissa Muscatine is currently writing Hillaryland, to be published in 2026, and is a generous donor and friend of the College.

Emma Reynolds has served as Secretary of State since September 2025. She was first elected MP in 2010 and returned to Parliament in 2024 as MP for Wycombe. She has led reforms in environmental protection, farming policy, and animal welfare, positioning environmental policy as central to food security and sustainable growth.

Professor du Sautoy is widely known for his work in popularising mathematics. His research focuses on symmetry and zeta functions, drawing on number theory, algebraic geometry, and analytic techniques. Professor du Sautoy delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2006 and has authored numerous books and articles

A full list of Wadham's Honorary Fellows can be found here.