Professor

Clare A. Lees
Occupation(s)Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Leeds (BA, MA)
University of Liverpool (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineMedieval studies
Sub-disciplineGender studies, Old English literature, Medievalism

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]

Education

Lees 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

Lees 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

Lees 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

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Clare Lees - Research Portal, King's College, London". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  3. ^ "New AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership announced for arts & humanities postgraduates". ucl.ac.uk. 17 October 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  4. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Beowulf". BBC. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  5. ^ a b "The Contemporary Medieval in Practice". UCL Press. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  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.
  9. ^ "Professor Clare Lees named new director of the Institute of English Studies". .ies.sas.ac.uk. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  10. ^ admin. "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.
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