Karen O'Brien
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Karen O’Brien; Karen Elisabeth O'Brien
Karen Elisabeth O'Brien is a British academic administrator and scholar of English literature, specialising in the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century literature. Since 2022, she has been Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University (the first woman to hold the office), having previously been Professor of English Literature and Head of the Humanities Division, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of University College, Oxford.