Dame Gillian Beer FBA

English Language and Literature

Elected 1991

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected: 1991
Sections: Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website: https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/gillian-beer

Current post

Emeritus King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge King Edward VII Professor of English Literature

1994 - 2002

University of Cambridge Emeritus King Edward VII Professor English Literature, University of Cambridge

1994 -

Clare Hall University of Cambridge President

1994 - 2001

Girton College University of Cambridge Fellow

1965 - 1994

Publications

Darwin's plots: evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and 19th century fiction 1983

Open fields: science in cultural encounter 1996

Virginia Woolf: the common ground 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA

Twentieth-century literature and intellectual history; contemporary literature and theory; cultural histories of human rights, exile, and migration

Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA (credit Catherine Shakespeare Lane)

Professor Clair Wills FBA

20th-century British and Irish cultural history; contemporary writing; the literature and social history of migration

Professor Robert S C Gordon FBA

The cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature (Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust

Dame Gillian Beer FBA

Current post

Emeritus King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge King Edward VII Professor of English Literature

1994 - 2002

University of Cambridge Emeritus King Edward VII Professor English Literature, University of Cambridge

1994 -

Clare Hall University of Cambridge President

1994 - 2001

Girton College University of Cambridge Fellow

1965 - 1994

Publications

Darwin's plots: evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and 19th century fiction 1983

Open fields: science in cultural encounter 1996

Virginia Woolf: the common ground 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA

Professor Clair Wills FBA

Professor Robert S C Gordon FBA

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Dame Gillian Beer FBA

Current post

Emeritus King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge King Edward VII Professor of English Literature

1994 - 2002

University of Cambridge Emeritus King Edward VII Professor English Literature, University of Cambridge

1994 -

Clare Hall University of Cambridge President

1994 - 2001

Girton College University of Cambridge Fellow

1965 - 1994

Publications

Darwin's plots: evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and 19th century fiction 1983

Open fields: science in cultural encounter 1996

Virginia Woolf: the common ground 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA

Professor Clair Wills FBA

Professor Robert S C Gordon FBA

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