Jacobus, Mary

views updated

JACOBUS, Mary

JACOBUS, Mary. British, b. 1944. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Manchester University, Dept. of English, lecturer, 1970-71; Oxford University, fellow and tutor in English, Lady Margaret Hall, and lecturer in English, 1971-80; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Dept. of English, associate professor, 1980-82, professor, 1982-90, John Wendell Anderson Professor, 1990-2000; University of Cambridge, professor of English, Grace University, 2000-, fellow of Churchill College, 2000-. Publications: Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1798), 1976; Reading Woman, 1986; Romanticism, Writing and Sexual Difference: Essays on The Prelude, 1989; First Things: The Maternal Imaginary, Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading, 1999. EDITOR: Woman Writing and Writing about Women, 1979; (co-) Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science, 1989. Address: Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0AS, England. Online address: [email protected]

More From encyclopedia.com