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Tiffany Stern FBA (b. 1968) is a historian and Shakespeare scholar. She is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. [1]

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Stern has a bachelor's degree in English from Merton College, Oxford. She gained her MPhil in 1993 and PhD in 1997, both from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford (1997-2000); a Reader at Oxford Brookes University (2001-5), and then Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor at University College, Oxford, and Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Oxford (2005–16). After a year as Shakespeare Chair at Royal Holloway, she became Professorial Fellow in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham in 2017. [1] She is general editor of the New Mermaids series with William C. Carroll; [2] Arden Shakespeare: 4 with Peter Holland and Zachary Lesser; [3] and Norton Anthology of Sixteenth Century Literature, with Stephen Greenblatt.

Stern was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019. [3]

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  1. 1 2 "Professor Tiffany Stern, FBA". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  2. ↑ "New Mermaids". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Tiffany Stern FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
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