Janet Bately | |
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Occupation | Academic |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Old English literature,Middle English literature |
Institutions | King's College London |
Janet Bately CBE FBA FRSA FKC is a British academic,the Sir Israel Gollancz Professor Emerita of English Language and Medieval Literature at King's College London since 1977. [1] She has a bachelor's degree from Somerville College,Oxford and began her academic career as a lecturer at Birkbeck College. [2] Her research interests include Old English and Middle English literatures,the court of King Alfred the Great,and early modern bilingual dictionaries. [3] [1]
Bately was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990,and a CBE in 2000. [2] She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College,Oxford. [4] In 1997,Bately was honoured with a Festschrift,Alfred the Wise,edited by Jane Roberts,Janet L. Nelson,and Malcolm Godden to celebrate her 65th birthday. [5]
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