Professor Clare A. Lees | |
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Occupation(s) | Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Leeds (BA, MA) University of Liverpool (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Medieval studies |
Sub-discipline | Gender studies,Old English literature,Medievalism |
Clare A. Lees is professor of medieval literature and history of the language,and Director of the Institute of English Studies,University of London. [1]
Lees earned her Bachelor of Arts and master's degree at the University of Leeds before earning her PhD at the University of Liverpool. [1]
Lees was professor of medieval literature and history of the language at King's College,University of London from 2001 until 2018. [2]
In 2013,Lees was director of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership,a Doctoral Training Partnership funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. [3]
Lees featured on the panel of experts for the 'Beowulf' episode of 'In Our Time',broadcast 5 March 2015. [4]
Lees was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2015. [1]
In January 2018,Lees was named director of the Institute of English Studies of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London. [1]
Lees has published on a range of topics including Bede's account of Caedmon and the 'first hymn' in the English language;the Ruthwell Cross;and medieval masculinity.
More recently,Lees and her long-term collaborator and co-author Gillian Overing have explored contemporary medieval art works and poems by Caroline Bergvall,Roni Horn,and Sharon Morris. [5]
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