Jane Roberts (literary scholar)

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Jane Roberts, FSA, FEA, is a Northern Irish literary scholar. She was the Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at King's College London from 1998 to 2001.

Early life and education[]

Jane Roberts was raised in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. After attending , she read modern languages at Trinity College Dublin, then completed a diploma of higher education and an MLitt with a thesis on women in Anglo-Saxon England. She then studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1959 to 1961; he was awarded a DPhil in 1967.[1]

Academia[]

Between 1961 and 1964, she was an assistant at the University of Glasgow. Promotion to a lectureship in English literature came in 1964. In 1968, she was appointed to a lectureship in Old and Middle English at University College Dublin. She was there for a year, moving to King's College London in 1969 to take up a lectureship in English. She was promoted to a readership in 1982 and a personal chair ten years later. She was appointed to the in 1998.[1] She retired in 2001[2] and was appointed to an emeritus professorship at King's and a senior research fellowship at the Institute of English Studies.[3]

Roberts's books include The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book (1979), A Thesaurus of Old English (co-authored with Christian Kay, 1995), A Guide to Scripts Used in English Writing up to 1550 (2005), and (as co-editor) Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (2009).[3] She was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2009.[4] She was also elected a fellow of the English Association in 2014.[5] She was the subject of a Festschrift published in 2001.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b and Christian J. Kay, "Jane Roberts: A Personal Tribute", in Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester (eds), Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts, Costerus New Series, no. 133 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 2001), pp. v-vi.
  2. ^ "Professor Jane Roberts", King's College London. Archived at the Internet Archive on 16 November 2001.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Jane Roberts", King's College London. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Prof Jane Roberts", Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  5. ^ "List of Fellows", The English Association. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  6. ^ Christian J. Kay and (eds), Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts, Costerus New Series, no. 133 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 2001)
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