Professor Dame Hermione Lee FBA

Life-Writing, 19th to 21st century literature, American literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2001
Honours
FBA, DBE
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford President of Wolfson College, and Professor of English Literature

2008 - 2017

University of Oxford Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature

1998 - 2008

University of York Personal Chair in English Literature

1996 - 1998

University of York Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader

1977 - 1996

What is biography?

7 Jul 2020 Professor Dame Hermione Lee FBA

Professor Dame Hermione Lee FBA, author of works on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton and Penelope Fitzgerald, explains the history, meaning and importance of biography.

Publications

Tom Stoppard: A Life

Hermione Lee - Published in 2020 by Faber

Penelope Fitzgerald

Hermione Lee - Published in 2013 by Vintage

Biography: A Very Short Introduction

Hermione Lee - Published in 2009 by Oxford University Press

Edith Wharton

Hermione Lee - Published in 2007 by Pimlico

Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing

Hermione Lee - Published in 2005 by Pimlico

Virginia Woolf

Hermione Lee - Published in 1996 by Vintage

Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up

Hermione Lee - Published in 1989 by Virago

Elizabeth Bowen

Hermione Lee - Published in 1981 by Vision

Leaders in SHAPE: Hermione Lee

7 Dec 2020

Literary biographer and academic Hermione Lee joins Conor Gearty to discuss her work and latest book 'Tom Stoppard: A Life'.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor John Kerrigan FBA

Shakespeare and drama; seventeenth-century Anglophone literature; British and Irish poetry since Yeats

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Professor Andreas Xavier Schönle FBA

Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture; the design, organization, and meanings of time and space in Russia; the Europeanization of the Russian elite and its transnational practices

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Professor Josephine McDonagh FBA

Josephine McDonagh is the author of several monographs and editor of volumes of essays on a range of interdisciplinary topics, with a focus on nineteenth-century British literature, particularly Britain’s global and imperial relations. Most recently she has interrogated the role of literature in settler colonisation, migration and emigration.

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