Clare A. Lees is professor of medieval literature and history of the language, and Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London.[1]
Professor Clare A. Lees | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Leeds (BA, MA) University of Liverpool (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Medieval studies |
| Sub-discipline | Gender studies, Old English literature, Medievalism |
Education
editLees earned her Bachelor of Arts and master's degree at the University of Leeds before earning her PhD at the University of Liverpool.[1]
Career
editLees was professor of medieval literature and history of the language at King's College, University of London from 2001 until 2018.[2]
In 2013, Lees was director of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, a Doctoral Training Partnership funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.[3]
Lees featured on the panel of experts for the 'Beowulf' episode of 'In Our Time', broadcast 5 March 2015.[4]
Lees was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2015.[1]
In January 2018, Lees was named director of the Institute of English Studies of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London.[1]
Expertise
editLees has published on a range of topics including Bede's account of Caedmon and the 'first hymn' in the English language; the Ruthwell Cross; and medieval masculinity.
More recently, Lees and her long-term collaborator and co-author Gillian Overing have explored contemporary medieval art works and poems by Caroline Bergvall, Roni Horn, and Sharon Morris.[5]
Publications
edit- Author of Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages (1994).[6]
- Author of 'Tradition And Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England' (1999).[7]
- Co-Editor with Gillian R. Overing, A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes (2006).[8]
- Editor of The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature (2013).[9][10]
- With Gillian R. Overing, The Contemporary Medieval in Practice (UCL Press, 2019).[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Professor Clare Lees named new director of the Institute of English Studies". Institute of English Studies. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ "Clare Lees - Research Portal, King's College, London". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ "New AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership announced for arts & humanities postgraduates". ucl.ac.uk. 17 October 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Beowulf". BBC. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ a b "The Contemporary Medieval in Practice". UCL Press. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages. Vol. 7 (NED - New ed.). University of Minnesota Press. 1994. ISBN 9780816624256. JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctttv7fd.
- ^ Tradition And Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Vol. 19 (NED - New ed.). University of Minnesota Press. 1999. ISBN 0-8166-3003-8.
- ^ "A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes Edited by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing". www.psupress.org. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ "Professor Clare Lees named new director of the Institute of English Studies". .ies.sas.ac.uk. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ admin (9 September 2014). "Review: Clare A. Lees (ed.), The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature. | TOEBI : Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland". Retrieved 8 July 2019.