Nicolette Zeeman

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Nicolette "Nicky" Zeeman (born 3 December 1956) is a British literary scholar. She has been Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge since January 2016 and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge since 1995. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life and education

Zeeman was born on 3 December 1956 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. [4] She is the daughter of Sir Christopher Zeeman, a mathematician, and Elizabeth Salter, who was an academic specialising in medieval literature. [5] She was educated at Mill Mount Grammar School, an all-girls grammar school in York. [4] She studied at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1979. [4] In 2000, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the University of Cambridge. [4]

Academic career

Zeeman was a junior research fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1984 to 1987. She was elected a fellow of King's College, Cambridge in 1995. Within the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, she was a lecturer (2012–2014), then senior lecturer (2014–2015), [4] before being made Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English in January 2016. [6] She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University for the 2014–15 academic year. [4]

Zeeman's research is focused on the literature of the later Middle Ages. She studies literature and devotional writings in English, French and Latin, including those of Chaucer and the Piers Plowman . [7]

Selected works

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References

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  5. Reisz, Matthew (26 July 2012). "The family business". Times Higher Education (THE) . Retrieved 5 April 2018.
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