The NHS is failing us from our very first moments. The Telegraph, December 2025.
We need better Christians and better democracy. The Critic, December 2025.
A New Feminism at Cambridge. The Dispatch, December 2025.
Have we got alcoholism wrong? The Critic, November 2025.
The Case for Remembering the Classics. The Dispatch, October 2025.
The unsettling cant of settler colonial studies. The Critic, March 2025.
Dashed Hopes of Common Sense. The Dispatch, March 2025.
What ‘Gentle Parenting’ Misunderstands About Human Nature. The Dispatch, December 2024.
Google has a history problem. The Critic, March 2024.
The Nobility of Journalism. The Dispatch, March 2024.
The Revelations of Simone Weil. The Dispatch, February 2024.
Feast, fast, and Photoshop. Church Times, January 2024.
When Obscure Christmas Liturgies Become Relevant Anew. The Dispatch, December 2023.
The Perils of a Culture of Critique. The Dispatch, November 2023.
The Devolution of Idealism. The Dispatch, November 2023.
So, is there ‘heaven in ordinary’? Church Times, August 2023.
Unlikely key to the Kingdom. Church Times, June 2023.
The recovery of hope. Church Times, May 2023.
Thou in the midst of them. Church Times, May 2022.
Father forgiven. Church Times, February 2022.
Jordan Peterson describes his difficulties with Christianity. Church Times, May 2021.
Dent, Megan. Review of Anglican Biblical Interpretation in the Nineteenth Century: A Critical Evaluation by Cole William Hartin (Leiden: Brill, 2024). Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society (2025), pp. 80–82.
Dent, Megan, "Disraeli and the Bible", Journal of Victorian Culture, 2023.
Dent, Megan. "Disraeli and Race," in A.D. Cousins and Dani Napton (eds.), Disraeli and the Politics of Fiction: Some Reconsiderations. Brill, 2022.
Kerry, Paul E., Albert D. Pionke, and Megan Dent, eds. Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018.
Dent, Megan. “‘Mysteries of Predisposition’: Carlyle, Disraeli, Goethe, and Religious Influence,” in Paul E. Kerry, Albert D. Pionke, and Megan Dent (eds.), Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018.
Dent, Megan. [Review of the book Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print by Joshua King]. Nineteenth Century Literature 72.2 (2017), pp. 264–267.
Dent, Megan. “‘There must be design’: the threat of unbelief in Disraeli’s Lothair.” Victorian Literature And Culture 44, no. 3 (2016): pp. 671-686.
Kearney, Megan. “The Pure and Imaginative.” Cosmologics: A Magazine of Science, Religion, and Culture at Harvard Divinity School (Spring 2015).
DPhil Theology
Keble College, University of Oxford
MSt Theology (Distinction)
Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
BA English (High Honors, Cum Laude)
Smith College