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 Dame Marina Warner
History; historical studies of language and literature; English language and literature
Professor John Kerrigan
Shakespeare and drama; seventeenth-century Anglophone literature; British and Irish poetry since Yeats
Professor Edna Longley
English Language and Literature Irish Literature in English England Ireland Scotland Wales
Professor Jacqueline Rose
English Language and Literature South Africa African Languages and Literature