Sally Shuttleworth Explained

Sally Ann Shuttleworth (born 5 September 1952) 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

She was educated at the University of York (BA English Literature and Sociology 1974), and Darwin College, Cambridge (PhD English Literature 1980).^[3] She then lectured in English at Princeton University, the University of Leeds and the University of Sheffield.^[4] She has appeared on Woman's Hour.^[5]

On 16 July 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).^[6] 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.

Books

Author

• George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science (1984)
• Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (1996)
• The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840–1900 (2010)
• Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019) - coauthor^[7]

Editor

• Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts 1830-1890
• Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy (1999)
• The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob by George Eliot (2004)
• Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, hriOnline (2004–20)
• Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. Blackmore (2008)
• Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science co-edited with Mary Jacobus and Evelyn Fox Keller (2013)

References

Notes and References

1. Web site: http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/people/profile?tx_oxford_pi1[staff=50&cHash=d5f7f26f190590347ed4c947cb186dc4 Professor Sally Shuttleworth]. Academic Profile. St Anne's College, Oxford. 17 July 2015.
2. Web site: Professor Sally Shuttleworth. 2020-06-10. diseasesofmodernlife.web.ox.ac.uk. en.
3. Web site: Shuttleworth, Prof. Sally Ann. Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017.
4. Web site: Head of Division - Oxford Humanities Division . www.humanities.ox.ac.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111009025402/http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/about_us/head_of_division . 2011-10-09.
5. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, 10/08/2010.
6. Web site: British Academy Fellowship reaches 1,000 as 42 new UK Fellows are welcomed. British Academy. 17 July 2015. 16 July 2015.
7. Web site: Anxious Times. 2020-06-10. upittpress.org.