Alice

Hello! I’m Alice, and I graduated this year with a First Class BA in English Language and Literature, coming fifteenth in my cohort of over two hundred. Over my time at Oxford, I was awarded an Exhibition twice, a monetary collegiate reward for my high level of achievement. I’m lucky enough that my course and what I like to do in my spare time overlap; after three years of intense study, I’m still not sick of the joys of just reading, especially in the genres of modernism and literary criticism. I also love film, and art galleries – I love to explore the ways a different artistic medium has the potential to shape the development of an idea. Alongside this, I am an Oxford Kickboxing Varsity champion, and I like to do yoga and surf as a more meditative balance to the intensity of both my sporting and academic lives.  

Since I’ve graduated, I’ve been lucky enough to travel around Vietnam and Cambodia for the last two months, an enlarging of my horizons which has allowed me to explore learn about a entirely new part of the world, as well as to test ways in which the things I already know can play out on new stages and in new contexts, which has been an exciting challenge. I’m currently living in Paris, where I plan on bringing my A level French to a level of fluency where I’ll be able to utilise it as part of a Literature Masters, dwelling in the aporia between disciplines and between languages, permeable boundaries which I find fascinating.

Before university, I was educated at Camden School for Girls, in London where I grew up. Alongside English (A*) , I studied French (A *) and History (A*) at A level, and was the prefect representing the school’s English department. I wrote an EPQ applying the Jungian idea of archetype to the figure of the ‘rebel’ in literature spanning a 2000 year period. It was this – in which I got 100% - that sparked my passion for the research side of academics, igniting my interest in the possibility of a critical and intellectual praxis spanning disciplines, genres, and millennia. I gave a series of talks, known as ‘masterclasses’, to the lower school about this project, and have also returned to Camden to speak to and coach students applying to Oxbridge on several occasions during my degree, as I believe passionately in using the skills I have acquired to help others.  

I have been tutoring for two years now, in both English and History, at levels ranging from A level to pre-11+. My tutorial approach is very individualistic, and I try to base my classes around interactions and exercises that the student is most comfortable and confident with, varying between discursive and more hands-on approaches. I have enjoyed watching my pupils grow in confidence and in ability, with their efforts paying off in their examination results. I have also helped students applying to Oxford, both through the framework of my Oxford college and externally, speaking to them at length about their academic interests, helping them with their personal statements and application essays, and prepping them for the rigorous interview process. I welcome clients in any of my three A level subjects, at any stage in their school career, and am happy to take on students applying to Oxbridge for English.