Mary Jacobus (literary scholar)

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Mary Longstaff Jacobus, CBE , FBA (born 4 May 1944) is a British literary scholar.

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Career

Born on 4 May 1944 to Marcus and Diana (née Longstaff) Jacobus, Jacobus attended Oxford High School before going up to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (LMH), to read English; she graduated in 1965 and then completed her doctorate in 1970. [1] [2]

The last two years of her doctorate were spent as Randall McIver Junior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; after a year lecturing at the University of Manchester, she returned to Oxford as a Fellow and Tutor in English at LMH and, from 1972, as a Common University Fund lecturer. In 1980, she moved to Cornell University to take up the post of associate professor of English, and two years later she was promoted to a full professorship.

From 1989 to 2000, Jacobus was Cornell's John Wendell Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies. She then became Grace 2 Professor of English in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge and took up a Professiial fellowship at Churchill College. From 2006 until 2011, she was Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University. Jacobus retired from Cambridge University in 2011, returning to Cornell University as M.H.Abrams Distinguished Visiting professor in 2011–12. She continues to hold an emerita professorship at Cambridge and Cornell. [1]

From 2009 to 2015 she served on the Academic Committee of Norway's Holberg International Memorial Prize, chairing it from 2012 to 2015.[ citation needed ]

Honours

In 2009, Jacobus was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [3] She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, and the Arts Humanities Research Council (UK).

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012 for "services to literary scholarship". [4] [5]

She is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and Churchill College, Cambridge.[ citation needed ]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 "Jacobus, Prof. Mary Longstaff", Who's Who (Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Professor Mary Jacobus", Churchill College, Cambridge. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Professor Mary Jacobus", British Academy. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "Queen's birthday honours list 2012: GCB, DBE and CBE", The Guardian, . Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Mary Jacobus awarded CBE", University of Cambridge: Faculty of English, 18 June 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
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