Sally Ann Shuttleworth CBE FBA (born 5 September 1952[1]) is a British academic specialising in Victorian literature. She is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. From 2006 to 2011, she was Head of the Humanities Division, University of Oxford.[2] From 2014 to 2019 she was a principal investigator on the Diseases of Modern Life project, a multidisciplinary research initiative exploring nineteenth century scientific and cultural ideas related to stress and information overload.[3]
She was educated at the University of York (BA English Literature and Sociology 1974), and Darwin College, Cambridge (PhD English Literature 1980).[4] She then lectured in English at Princeton University, the University of Leeds and the University of Sheffield.[5] She has appeared on Woman's Hour.[6]
On 16 July 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[7] She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to the study of English literature.[8]
