Dame Gillian Beer FBA

English Language and Literature

Elected 1991

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1991
Subjects: Literature
Website: http://literature.britishcouncil.org/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

Jan 1994 - Jan 2002

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

Jan 1994 -

Clare Hall University of Cambridge President

Jan 1994 - Jan 2001

Girton College University of Cambridge Fellow

Jan 1965 - Jan 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

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