Diane Purkiss (born 30 June 1961) is an Australian historian, and Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford.
She specialises in Renaissance and women's literature, witchcraft and the English Civil War.
Purkiss was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at Roseville College, Our Lady of the Rosary Convent, and Stuartholme School.
[citation needed] In 1998, she became a Professor of English at Exeter University, before taking up her current post at Keble College in 2000.
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