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[[File:Stephen bernard university parks oxford.jpg|right|200x200px|Stephen Bernard on the Isis, Oxford - 1995]]
'''Stephen Jarrod Bernard''' [[Fellow of the Society Antiquaries|FSA]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts|FRSA]] [[FRHistS]] [[FHEA]] (born 1975) is an Academic Visitor at the [https://www.english.ox.ac.uk Faculty of English Language and Literature], [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-stephen-bernard-0|title=Dr Stephen Bernard {{!}} Faculty of English|website=www.english.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref> and a member of [[University College, Oxford|University College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-stephen-bernard-0|title=Dr Stephen Bernard {{!}} Faculty of English|website=www.english.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref> A prize-winning essayist, editor, and bibliographer, he is known mostly for his bibliographical and book historical work on the Tonson publishing house which posited one of the greatest and most fundamental questions about all English literature: "Who invented English literature, that is, as a conceptual category defined by canon and tradition? ... As good a claimant as any is the London bookseller [[Jacob Tonson]]."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Keymer |first=Thomas |date=2016-05-04 |title=Mastering the Art of Understating Your Wealth |language=en |volume=38 |work=London Review of Books |issue=9 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n09/thomas-keymer/mastering-the-art-of-understating-your-wealth |access-date=2023-04-27 |issn=0260-9592}}</ref>
In a very different field, his memoir about the sustained serial, clerical childhood sexual abuse in the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton]] in the 1980s and 90s, his consequent mental illness, and the pioneering experimental psychiatric ketamine treatment he has received was a book of the year in the [[New Statesman]] and [[Evening Standard]], and highly acclaimed by such writers as the double Booker Prize winner [[Hilary Mantel]], Booker Prize winner [[Roddy Doyle]], neurosurgeon [[Henry Marsh (neurosurgeon)|Henry Marsh]] and theologian [[Richard Holloway]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bernard |first=Stephen |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/436450/paper-cuts-by-stephen-bernard/9781473549234 |title=Paper Cuts |language=en}}</ref> It was In 2019 he was a Core Participant at the statutory [[Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/15909/view/2019-07-01-cp-determination-stephen-bernard.pdf|title=IICSA CP determination|last=|first=|date=5 December 2019|website=IICSA|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
== Career and education ==
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[[Category:Academics of the University of Oxford]]
[[Category:British bibliographers]]
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