Kate Tunstall (academic)


Professor Kate E. Tunstall is an academic in the field of French literature. She is a Fellow and Interim Provost at Worcester College, Oxford.
Professor Tunstall studied for her PhD degree at the University of Cambridge, with a thesis on the 18th-century French philosopher and encyclopaedist Denis Diderot. She is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford and an academic in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. In 2019, she was appointed as the Interim Provost of Worcester College.
Professor Tunstall instigated an end to the traditional custom of students standing during formal hall as Fellows enter to sit at high table and grace before the meal. In an online referendum for students, 155 students voted, with 130 in favour of maintaining the traditions, 20 against, and five abstained. The change to traditional customs is in line with the College's "commitment to equality as an educational charity".

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