President Hermione Lee appointed Dame for Services to Literary Scholarship

Dame Hermione is a renowned biographer, reviewer and broadcaster. She has written biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather, and critical books on Elizabeth Bowen, Woolf, and Philip Roth. She is currently writing a biography of the twentieth-century British novelist Penelope Fitzgerald. From 1998 to 2008 she was Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at New College, Oxford, and in 2006 was Chair of the Man Booker Prize.

Professor Dame Hermione  said: “I am very proud of the honour, both for myself and for my College. At a time when literary scholarship, the Humanities, and the arts, are under such severe challenges, this recognition for my work in literary scholarship is very important to me.”

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