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Freya Johnston is a Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Hazel Eardley-Wilmot Tutorial Fellow at St Anne's College. She holds administrative roles as Associate Head (Education) of the Humanities Division and Dean of St Anne's College. Her research focuses on 18th- and 19th-century literature, with expertise in Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen, and Thomas Love Peacock. She co-edits the London Review of Books-affiliated journal Essays in Criticism and oversees major editorial projects like the Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock.
Johnston's scholarship bridges literary history and critical theory, emphasizing authorial intent, textual analysis, and interdisciplinary connections. She has published extensively on Austen's juvenilia, Johnson's unwritten works, and Kafka's German literature. Her 2021 monograph Jane Austen, Early and Late redefined understanding of Austen's creative evolution. Recent work includes co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Jane Austen and developing a life-in-letters project on Austen for Cambridge University Press.
Her awards include a 2024 Marilyn Gaull Book Award shortlist. Johnston actively engages public scholarship through essays in Prospect and LRB, balancing academic rigor with accessible literary criticism.
