UK Fellow, Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830, elected in 2001
Professor Dame Hermione Lee FBA
About this Fellow
Life-Writing, 19th to 21st century literature, American literature
Website: http://www.hermionelee.com/
Appointments
Current post
- Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Past Appointments
- Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader, University of York, 1977 - 1996
- Personal Chair in English Literature, University of York, 1996 - 1998
- Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, 1998 - 2008
- President of Wolfson College, and Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, 2008 - 2017
Publications
Elizabeth Bowen 1981
Willa Cather: a life saved up 1989
Biography: A Very Short introduction 2009
Edith Wharton 2007
Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing 2005
Virginia Woolf 1996
Biography: A Very Short Introduction 2009
Penelope Fitzgerald 2013
Other Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830 Fellows
Professor Catriona Kelly
Russian cultural and social history from the late 18th century; the history of childhood, and Russian national identity in the late Soviet and post-Soviet eras.
Professor Michael Bell
Literary studies from the Enlightenment to modernity; the interrelations of literature and philosophy
Professor Thomas Elsaesser
History and pre-history of cinema and moving image culture 1870s-1900s; European cinema since 1945; German cinema; ‘New Hollywood’ of the 1970s, ‘post-classical’ cinema since the 1990s; architecture and urbanism; avant-garde cinema and installation art
Professor Mary Jacobus
British Romanticism, especially Wordsworth; feminist literary theory and criticism; psychoanalysis; visual culture
