Clare Lees Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Clare A. Lees
Occupation:Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London
Education:University of Leeds (BA, MA)
University of Liverpool (PhD)
Discipline:Medieval studies
Sub Discipline:Gender 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.

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.

In January 2018, Lees was named director of the Institute of English Studies of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London.

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.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Clare Lees named new director of the Institute of English Studies. 2018-01-10. Institute of English Studies. en. 2019-07-08.
  2. Web site: Clare Lees - Research Portal, King's College, London. kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. 2019-07-08.
  3. Web site: New AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership announced for arts & humanities postgraduates . ucl.ac.uk . 4 April 2019 . 17 October 2013.
  4. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Beowulf. BBC. en-GB. 2020-03-15.
  5. Book: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages. 1994. University of Minnesota Press. 9780816624256. NED - New. 7 . 10.5749/j.ctttv7fd .
  6. Book: Tradition And Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England. 1999. University of Minnesota Press. 0-8166-3003-8. NED - New. 19.
  7. Web site: A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes Edited by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing. www.psupress.org. 2019-07-30.
  8. Web site: Professor Clare Lees named new director of the Institute of English Studies. 10 January 2018. .ies.sas.ac.uk. 4 April 2019.
  9. Web site: Review: Clare A. Lees (ed.), The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature. TOEBI : Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland. admin. 9 September 2014 . en. 2019-07-08.
  10. Web site: The Contemporary Medieval in Practice. UCL Press. en. 2020-03-15.