Clare Lees

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]

Clare A. Lees
EducationUniversity of Leeds (BA, MA)
University of Liverpool (PhD)
Children2

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]

Publications

Author of Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages (1994).[5]

Author of 'Tradition And Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England' (1999).[6]

Co-Editor with Gillian R. Overing, A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes (2006).[7]

Editor of The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature (2013).[8][9]

With Gillian R. Overing, The Contemporary Medieval in Practice (UCL Press, 2019).[10]

References
  1. "Professor Clare Lees named new director of the Institute of English Studies". Institute of English Studies. 2018-01-10. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  2. "Clare Lees - Research Portal, King's College, London". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  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 2020-03-15.
  5. Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages. 7 (NED - New ed.). University of Minnesota Press. 1994. ISBN 9780816624256. JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctttv7fd.
  6. Tradition And Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England. 19 (NED - New ed.). University of Minnesota Press. 1999. ISBN 0-8166-3003-8.
  7. "A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes Edited by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing". www.psupress.org. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  8. "Professor Clare Lees named new director of the Institute of English Studies". .ies.sas.ac.uk. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  9. admin. "Review: Clare A. Lees (ed.), The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature. | TOEBI : Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland". Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  10. "The Contemporary Medieval in Practice". UCL Press. Retrieved 2020-03-15.


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