Dame
Gillian Patricia Beer
University of Cambridge
Language and literary scholar; Educator; Academic administrator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2001
International Honorary Member
Specializes in Victorian literature and narrative, and more recently in the integration of science and literature. President, Clare Hall, Cambridge University (1994-2001). First woman president of a college not originally established as a women's institution. Author, Darwin's Plots; George Eliot; Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter, Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground. Vice President, British Academy (1994-96); Member, Board of Advisors, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology. Trustee, the British Museum.
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