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 Antoine Compagnon FBA

French Renaissance prose; 19th and 20th-century French literature and culture; history of criticism; theory of literature

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Professor Esther Leslie FBA

Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium

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Professor Robin Milner-Gulland FBA

Russia - modern literature (particularly 20th c. poetry); medieval and modern Russian culture, language, history, art and architecture; Byzantine culture; aspects of Sussex archaeology

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