Dame Gillian Beer FBA

English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1991
Subjects
Literature

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

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