Hermione Lee

Hermione Lee, CBE (born 29 February 1948)Date of birth from "Hermione Lee" in Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, entry update July 17, 2003 is President of Wolfson College, Oxford and was lately Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.

Biography

Hermione Lee grew up in London where her father was a GP. She was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, City of London School for Girls, and Queen's College, London. She took a first-class degree in English Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford in 1968 and an MPhil at St Cross College, Oxford in 1970. She has taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, at the University of Liverpool (where she was given an Honorary DLitt in 2002) and at the University of York, from 1977 to 1998, where she had a personal Chair in the Department of English and Related Literature, and where she received an Honorary DLitt in 2007. Since 1998 she has been the Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and the first woman professorial Fellow of New College, Oxford.

Membership

She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's and St Cross College, Oxford; and a member of the Athenaeum Club. In 2003 Lee was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ...
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