English Literature, Oxbridge Applications, French, Italian
A First-Class Oxford English graduate who went on to teach English Literature at Oxford, Andrew specialises in English for Oxbridge applicants and university students.
Andrew graduated from Christ Church, Oxford with the highest First in English at his college, where he was an Academic Scholar and won a Gibbs Prize. He completed an MA at University College London with Distinction, winning the Shakespeare and Rhetoric Prize, and in 2018 was awarded a fully funded AHRC place on Oxford’s DPhil programme. He was an Academic Scholar throughout his time at Harrow School. Having grown up in Paris with dual English and Italian nationality, he is a native speaker of English, Italian and French.
Andrew has lectured and tutored at Christ Church and New College, teaching English Literature from the Renaissance to the present across five undergraduate modules, and has twice interviewed for Oxford admissions. With more than 400 hours of private tutoring, he has taken A-level students from B to A and A*, a GCSE English student from 4 to 7 and a GCSE Italian student from U to 9, and helped students win offers to read English at Magdalen and Exeter Colleges, Oxford. He has also taught History of Art for the Eton Oppidan Scholarship.
Andrew believes the best tutors listen and learn from their students, making lessons dialogues rather than lectures, much like an Oxbridge tutorial. He often uses a student’s other interests, such as the English Civil War for Milton or French for T. S. Eliot, to draw them into English, and supports them with carefully chosen reading lists, open-ended tutorials and detailed feedback.
