Beer, Dame Gillian (Patricia Kempster)
BEER, Dame Gillian (Patricia Kempster)
BEER, Dame Gillian (Patricia Kempster). British, b. 1935. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Bedford College, London, Assistant Lecturer, 1959-62; University of Liverpool, part-time Lecturer, 1962-64; University of Cambridge, Fellow of Girton College, 1965-94, Assistant Lecturer, 1966-71, Lecturer to Reader in Literature and Narrative, 1971-89, Professor of English, 1989-2002, President of Clare Hall College, 1994-2001, Professor Emeritus, 2002-. Publications: Meredith: A Change of Masks, 1970; The Romance, 1970; (ed. with J. Beer) Delights and Warnings: A New Anthology of Poems, 1979; Darwin's Plots, 1983, 2nd ed., 2000; George Eliot, 1986; Arguing with the Past, 1989; Forging the Missing Link: Interdisciplinary Stories, 1992; Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter, 1996; Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground, 1996. Address: Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9AL, England. Online address: [email protected]