Erica Longfellow was appointed Dean of Divinity and Chaplain of the college in 2011. Before moving to Oxford, she was Reader in English Literature at Kingston University and a priest in the Diocese of Southwark. She is the author of Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England (CUP, 2004) and is currently finishing a monograph on Prayer and Privacy and editing a volume of the The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne. As chaplain Erica leads services in the chapel, co-ordinates pastoral care with the college welfare team, and works with New College School.
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