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At Oxford - 301-Year "Men-Only" Streak Is Broken

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Compiled by STEVEN McELROY - NY TIMES - Published: May 17, 2009. Ruth Padel has been elected the new Oxford professor of poetry and will be the first woman to hold the post since it was established in 1708, the Guardian reported. Ms. Padel, the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, was chosen on Saturday following a controversial contest for the position.

Last week the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott withdrew from the running because news surfaced about sexual harassment claims made against him by a Harvard student in 1982. A dossier containing the details had been sent anonymously to 200 Oxford academics.
Mr. Walcott’s withdrawal left Ms. Padel and the Indian poet and critic Arvind Mehrotra in consideration.

“I should like to thank the university and the people who voted for me,” Ms. Padel said. “I feel honored and humbled to be given this responsibility and shall try to carry it out as well as I can. My backers based their support for me on what they felt I could offer poetry and students.
Now I shall do my best to fulfill their trust.”

Ms. Padel’s selection follows close on the heels of Carol Ann Duffy’s appointment as Britain’s poet laureate; that post had been held by male writers for 341 years.