Mary Jacobus (academic)

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

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 . She then became Grace 2 Professor of English at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge and took up a fellowship at Churchill College. Jacobus retired in 2011, but continues to hold an emerita professorship at Cambridge and Cornell.[1]

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

Selected publications[]

  • Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1798) (Clarendon Press, 1976).
  • (Editor) Women Writing and Women Writing About Women (Croon Helm, 1979).
  • Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism (Methuen, 1986).
  • (Co-editor with Evelyn Fox Keller and Sally Shuttleworth) Body/Politics: Women and the Discourse of Science (Routledge, 1989).
  • Romanticism, Writing and Sexual Difference: Essays on The Prelude (Clarendon Press, 1989)
  • First Things: the Maternal Imaginary in Literature, Art and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1995).
  • Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading (Oxford University Press, 1999).
  • The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein (Oxford University Press, 2005).
  • Romantic Things: A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud (Chicago University Press, 2012).
  • Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press, 2016).

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "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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