Professor Janet Bately FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1990
- Subjects
- Medieval studies
- Sections
- Medieval Studies
Summary
Janet Bately is Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College, London. A student at Somerville College Oxford, she began her academic career at Birkbeck College London, where she was successively Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer and Reader, moving to King's College, London as Professor of English Language and Literature in 1977. She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990 and made CBE in 2000. Still actively engaged in research, her specialisms are in Old English language and literature, and bilingual dictionaries of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Current post
Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College London
Past appointments
King's College London University of London Sir Israel Gollancz Research Professor
1995 - 1997
King's College London University of London Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature
1977 - 1995
King's College London University of London Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval Literature, King's College London
1977 -
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Roderick Beaton FBA
Greek literature, history, and culture from the twelfth century to the present; classical reception in the formation of late medieval and modern Greek identity; the Greek novel since antiquity
Professor Susan Rankin FBA
Western medieval music and its transmission and notation from the origins to the 13th century and the development of the Latin liturgy, with an especial focus on ritual
Professor Malcolm Godden FBA
Anglo-Saxon literature, especially Ælfric and the Alfredian writings; early medieval commentary on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy
