English Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Oxbridge Applications
A Medieval and Renaissance literary historian with a PhD, an Oxford Master’s in Classics with the top distinction in her year and a Cambridge postdoc, Dr Karis teaches through delight and wonder.
Karis holds a BA in Philosophy cum laude from Wheaton College, a PhD in English Literature from the University of York, and a Master’s in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford, where she received the top distinction in her year. She held an AHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, researching how cultures remembered the European reformations. A dual American and British citizen, she also attended an IB school in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Karis has tutored from 11+ Common Entrance to A-level in English Literature and Classics, and has taught first-year Philosophy and final-year Renaissance Literature at universities in the US and UK. An 11+ student she worked with for eight weeks passed her English Common Entrance and won a place at her target London school, and an undergraduate she taught went on to an MA at Durham. Her interdisciplinary background lets her teach across several subjects, and she offers week-long intensives in the school holidays.
Karis believes the purpose of learning is to see reality as it is, and that people learn best through delight and wonder. She has found that students lose their excitement when they become fixated on grades or destinations, so she combines encouragement with challenge, helps build resilience, and draws on her experience of the Oxbridge tutorial system and admissions to help students present their strengths.
