Anne Lingard Klinck (née Anne Lingard Hibbert) is a Canadian academic and writer. The focus of her work is on the classics and she is an authority on the female voice in

lyric poetry Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...

Early life

She was born to British-Canadian father Sydney Hibbert as Anne Lingard Hibbert.

Education

Klink has a bachelor's and a master's degree from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. She also has a master's degree from

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

and she also has a master's and a PhD from the

University of New Brunswick The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universities in North Americ ...

Career

Klink worked at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) for eighteen years before retiring as Professor Emerita. While working at UNB she co-directed the English programs. She is an authority on the female voice in

Selected publications

* ''Animal Imagery in Wulf and Eadwacer and the Possibilities of Interpretation'', Papers on Language and Literature, 23 (1): 3–13 * ''The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study'', 1992 and 2001, McGill-Queen's University Press * ''The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi'' , 2000,

University of Ottawa Press The University of Ottawa Press (french: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa) is a bilingual university press located in Ottawa, Ontario. It publishes approximately 25-30 books annually in both English language, English and French language, Fren ...

. * Anne Kilnck and Anne Marie Rasmusen, ''Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches'', 2002,

University of Pennsylvania Press The University of Pennsylvania Press (or Penn Press) is a university press affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The press was originally incorporated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on 26 Ma ...

* ''An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song'' , 2004 Palgrave Press * ''Woman’s Songs in Ancient Greece'', 2008, McGill-Queen's University Press * ''The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems,'' 2019 McGill-Queen's University Press,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Klincy, Anne Canadian women academics Alumni of the University of Oxford McGill University alumni University of New Brunswick alumni University of New Brunswick faculty 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)