Jacqueline Norton is Head of Acquisitions for the Humanities in the Research and Reference team at OUP. She was from 2009 to 2021 she was the Literature Editor signing up a portfolio of publishing across academic and trade in that discipline. From 2021 to 2026 she led a large team of arts and humanities acquisitions editors across Oxford and New York. She’s recently stepped into a reduced four-day role managing with fewer direct reports and dabbling in commissioning again, this time for the Very Short Introductions series.
After a BA and Masters in Literature she took the excellent one-year Diploma in Publishing at Oxford Brookes in 1992 to 1993 just as it was becoming a university. Her career has largely been at OUP (22 years to date) though she also worked for an academic publishing marketing agency which recruited her direct from the diploma (the partners were teaching a module at the time) and for a while at Garnet Publishing in Reading around the edges of raising children.