Emma Watson to be visiting fellow at Oxford University

Emma Watson and Benedict Cumberbatch have been appointed as visiting fellows at Lady Margaret Hall by Oxford University.

Watson (25) and Cumberbatch (39) will have a duties which are supposed to enrich the cultural life of the university, reported People magazine.

“At a minimum, we’d like them to drop in occasionally at college, eat with us and meet informally with a variety of the LMH community,” Alan Rusbridger, the college’s principal, said.

“We’d like them to do one thing a bit more structured. It could be a conversation or debate, a performance, a lecture or seminar, a form of outreach — or something we haven’t thought of. We can imagine fascinating interactions or collaborations between them,” she added.

The actors are among nine other fellows, all chosen from what Rusbridger said was a “variety of background, callings and professions.”

The fellows are also intended to help the academic community cross over into the various professional worlds the fellows are a part of.