Jane Stevenson (historian)

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Jane Barbara Stevenson (born 12 February 1959) is a British historian, literary scholar, and author.

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Education and career

Stevenson was born in London and brought up in London, Beijing and Bonn.[ citation needed ] She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Newnham College, Cambridge, completing that tripos in the upper second class in 1980. [1]

She went on to lecture in history at Sheffield University, and literature and history at the University of Aberdeen; from 2007 to 2017, she was Regius Professor of Humanity there. [2] Since 2017, she has been Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford. [3]

Selected works

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References

  1. 'Appendix V. Candidates who Took the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos between 1900 and 1999', in H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge, ed. by Michael Lapidge [=Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 69–70] (Aberystwyth: Department of Welsh, Aberystwyth University, 2015), pp. 257–66 (p. 263). ISBN   978-0-9557182-9-8.
  2. "Stevenson, Prof. Jane Barbara, (Mrs P. R. K. A. Davidson)". Who's Who 2018 . Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U246049.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. "Jane.Stevenson Fellow Page". Campion Hall. Retrieved 22 March 2019.