Stephen Bernard

He studied English literature at Christ Church, Oxford, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he won the Gibbs Prize for English.{{Cite journal |date=2004–2005 |title=University Prizes |url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/downloads/brazen_notes/thebrazennose2006.pdf |journal=Brazen Nose |pages=23}} In 2007, he won the Review of English Studies essay prize for his first article in an academic journal.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2008-9/supps/3_4855.pdf|title="Oration of the Vice-Chancellor", Oxford Gazette|last=Hood|first=Sir John|date=8 October 2008|website=University of Oxford|access-date=6 January 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/symplectic/publications?sso_id=bras1209&widget_publication_type=&widget_max_publications_to_display=30&widget_show_author_and_editor_names=0&widget_limit_to_favourites=0&widget_page_title=Dr%20Stephen%20Bernard|title=Faculty of English {{!}} Language & Literature|website=www.english.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-01-09}} In 2012, he won a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which he held in conjunction with a Junior Research Fellowship at University College, Oxford; whilst there he wrote The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons{{Cite web |last=Bernard |first=Stephen |date=2015 |title=The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-literary-correspondences-of-the-tonsons-9780198700852?cc=gb&lang=en& |access-date=27 April 2023 |website=}} (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015),Reviews of The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons:

• {{citation|last=Calvert|first=Ian|date=October 2015|doi=10.1093/res/hgv095|issue=278|journal=The Review of English Studies|pages=179–181|title=none|volume=67|doi-access=free}}
• {{citation|last=Clarke|first=Norma|date=January 2016|newspaper=The Times Literary Supplement|title=Sherry and proofs|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/sherry-and-proofs/}}
• {{citation|last=Keymer|first=Thomas|date=May 2016|issue=9|journal=London Review of Books|pages=21–22|title=Mastering the Art of Understating Your Wealth|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n09/thomas-keymer/mastering-the-art-of-understating-your-wealth|volume=38}}
• {{citation|last=Wilkinson|first=Hazel|date=July 2016|doi=10.1111/criq.12243|issue=2|journal=Critical Quarterly|pages=123–126|title=none|volume=58}}
• {{citation|last=Brown|first=Meaghan J.|doi=10.5699/modelangrevi.112.1.0235|edition=1|page=235|title=The Modern Language Review|volume=112|year=2017}}
• {{citation|last=Alff|first=David|doi=10.1353/scb.2017.0114|issue=1|journal=The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats|pages=88–90|title=none|volume=50|year=2017|s2cid=165405481}} an edition based on his doctoral thesis,{{Cite thesis|last=Bernard|first=Stephen|title=The correspondence of Jacob Tonson the elder|date=2011|publisher=Thesis DPhil--University of Oxford|url=http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=oxfaleph019281417&indx=1&recIds=oxfaleph019281417&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&frbg=&vl(254947567UI0)=any&&dscnt=0&vl(1UIStartWith0)=contains&scp.scps=scope:(OX)&tb=t&vid=OXVU1&mode=Basic&vl(516065169UI1)=all_items&srt=rank&tab=local&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=the%20correspondence%20of%20jacob%20tonson%20the%20elder&dstmp=1515883193607}} for which he won the international biennial MLA Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters (2015–17).{{Cite web|url=https://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/pgasite/documents/.../pga_044582.xls|title=International prize rankings|last=Murphy|first=Kara|website=National Academy of Sciences and the Humanities|access-date=2018-01-07}}{{Cite web|url=http://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20171205/75/6c/82/52/702f12c1e37755c4173e9a78/MLA_MNC_Press_Release_5_December.pdf|title=MLA press release|date=5 December 2017}} He was general editor, textual editor, and editor of English and Latin poems of The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, five vols. (London: Pickering Masters, 2017).Reviews of The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe:
• {{citation|last=Marsden|first=Jean I|date=July 2017|doi=10.1093/res/hgx078|issue=288|journal=The Review of English Studies|pages=171–173|title=none|volume=69}}
• {{citation|first=Pat|last=Rogers|date=31 October 2018|newspaper=The Times Literary Supplement|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/nicholas-rowe-plays/|title=Inheritor of {{sic|nolink=y|unfufilled}} renown: An extensive treatment of a sometimes overlooked writer}}

In 2018, he published Paper Cuts, a memoir (London: Jonathan Cape, 2018),Reviews of Paper Cuts a memoir:

• {{citation|first=Hannah Jane|last=Parkinson|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Fire on All Sides by James Rhodes and Paper Cuts by Stephen Bernard review – surviving child rape|date=11 February 2018|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/11/from-all-sides-james-rhodes-paper-cuts-stephen-bernard-review}}
• {{citation|first=Kate|last=Womersley|newspaper=The Spectator|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/why-i-now-find-listening-to-beethoven-nauseating/|date=10 March 2018|title=Why I now find listening to Beethoven nauseating: Stephen Bernard describes how much of literature and classical music are soiled pleasures for him, as a result of his local priest's abuse}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/16/paper-cuts-stpehen-bernard-review|title=Paper Cuts by Stephen Bernard review – a powerful memoir of sexual abuse|last=Turner|first=Jenny|date=2018-02-16|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-11-16}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/best-books-of-2018-a3997146.html|title=The best books of 2018|work=Evening Standard|access-date=2018-12-02|language=en-GB}} which revealed that he had been the victim of sustained serial, clerical sexual abuse as a child, which had caused him severe mental illness which was treated with experimental ketamine infusions. After a campaign by Bernard's abuser's last surviving relative, Deidre McCormack,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43233094|title=Clergyman's headstone 'should be smashed'|last=Campbell|first=Colin|date=2018-03-01|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-05-24|language=en-GB}} Canon Dermod Fogarty's headstone and memorial were destroyed with the consent of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton on 24 May 2018.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44370535|title=Church destroys accused priest's headstone|date=2018-06-05|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-06-18|language=en-GB}} The destruction of the headstone and memorial was recorded and can be seen on the BBC news website.{{Cite news |date=2018-06-05 |title=Church destroys headstone of Sussex accused priest |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-44370535 |access-date=2023-04-27}} The Catholic Herald published an editorial on Bernard's treatment by that Diocese and its wider implications for the Roman Catholic Church in England's response to clerical child sexual abuse as a result of this damnatio memoriae and his memoir.{{Cite web|url=https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/britain-abuse-crisis-buried-memories/|title=Britain: Abuse crisis – buried memories {{!}} Catholic Herald|website=Catholic Herald|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-12-02|date=2018-06-28}}

Bernard specialises in the History of the Book and was awarded research fellowships at the William Andrews Clarke Memorial Library, UCLA, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, and the Katharine F. Pantzer Research Fellowship by the Bibliographical Society.{{Cite web |title=Bibliographical Society of London |url=http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/2017-2018 }} His research focusses on English literature of the long eighteenth century, particularly manuscript letters. He also works on legal and financial records concerning booksellers, including, for example, The Letters of Jacob Tonson in Bodleian MS. Eng. lett., c129{{Cite book |last=Bernard |first=Stephen |title=The Letters of Jacob Tonson in Bodleian MS Eng. lett, c.129 |publisher=Oxford Bibliographical Society |year=2019 |isbn=9780901420640 |location=Oxford}} (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2019 [2020]){{Cite book |last=Bernard |first=Stephen |title=The Letters of Jacob Tonson in Bodleian MS. Eng. lett., c.129 |publisher=Oxford Bibliographical Society |year=2019 |isbn=9780901420640 |location=Oxford}} and ‘The Tonson publishing house and the 18th century book trade’ (The Book Collector, 2020).{{Cite journal |last=Bernard |first=Stephen |date=Autumn 2020 |title=The Tonson Publishing House and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade: a Superb Discovery |url=https://www.thebookcollector.co.uk/publications/2020-03 |journal=The Book Collector |volume=69 |issue=3 |pages=479–86}} Turning more fully to writers and the creation rather than production of literature, he has comprehensively edited The correspondence of John Dryden,{{Cite book |last=Bernard |first=Stephen |title=The correspondence of John Dryden |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781526136367 |location=Manchester}} with the assistance of John McTague (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), which had not been included in the definitive Works of John Dryden, 20 vols (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956-2002).{{Cite book |last=Bernard |first=Stephen |title=The correspondence of John Dryden |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781526136367 |location=Manchester}}

Bernard was diagnosed with mental illness as a result of his childhood experiences, recounted in his memoir. He lives in Oxford.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/16/paper-cuts-stpehen-bernard-review|title=Paper Cuts by Stephen Bernard review – a powerful memoir of sexual abuse|last=Turner|first=Jenny|date=2018-02-16|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-11-16}}

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