Michael Sheringham Explained

Michael Hugh Tempest Sheringham FBA (1948  - 21 January 2016) was Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford from 2004 until his retirement in 2015. He had previously acted a lecturer at University of Kent and University of Ulster

Biography

Sheringham was born in Cairo on 2 June 1948. His father, John Guy Tempest Sheringham was a civil servant, and his mother, Yvette Agnès (née Habib) was a journalist and poet. The family returned to UK in the early 1950, and settled near Reading, where Sheringham attended Wallingford County Grammar School. He then studied at University of Kent between 1966 and 1970.^[1]

On 20 September 1974, Sheringham married Priscilla Monique (Cilla) Duhamel, whom he had met at the University of Kent, and they had two children together. Around the same time as his marriage, he gained his first teaching role at University of Ulster. The following year he left Northern Ireland and returned to the University of Kent, where he became a lecturer.^[1]

Sheringham taught at the University of Kent (where he was Professor of French Literature from 1992 to 1995) and at Royal Holloway, University of London (where he was Professor of French from 1995 to 2004).^[2] He was appointed a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010.^[3] Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford from 2004 until his retirement in 2015.^[4] He was also a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Sheringham died at home in Oxford from prostate cancer on 21 January 2016.^{[1] [5]}

External links

• Michael Sheringham's page at the University of Oxford

Notes and References

1. Book: Jefferson . Ann . Sheringham, Michael Hugh Tempest (Micky) (1948–2016) . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 10 May 2020 . 9 January 2020. 10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111102 . 978-0-19-861412-8 .
2. Web site: Sheringham, Prof. Michael Hugh Tempest. Who's Who 2010. Oxford University Press. November 2009. 3 February 2010.
3. Web site: Eight academics made Fellows of the British Academy. University of Oxford. 26 July 2010. 23 July 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100726174545/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2010/100723.html. 26 July 2010.
4. Book: SHERINGHAM, Michael Hugh Tempest (born 1948), Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford, since 2004; Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, since 2004. Sheringham, Prof. Michael Hugh Tempest, (2 June 1948–21 Jan. 2016), Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford, 2004–15; Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 2004–15, then Emeritus . Oxfordindex.oup.com. December 2007 . Oxford University Press . 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U44998 . 28 January 2016.
5. Web site: Décès de Michael Sheringham. Fabula.org. 24 January 2016 . 2016-01-28.