Jane Barbara Stevenson (born 12 February 1959) is a British historian, literary scholar, and author. Since 2017, she is Senior Research Fellow at
Campion Hall
Campion Hall is one of the five permanent private halls of the University of Oxford in England. It is run by the Society of Jesus and named after Edmund Campion, a martyr and fellow of St John's College, Oxford. The hall is located on Brewer St ...
, Oxford.
From 2007 to 2017, she was
Regius Professor of Humanity
The Regius Professorship of Humanity, formerly the Regius Professorship of Classics, is a Regius Chair in classics at the University of Aberdeen.
List of Regius Professors of Humanity
* 1886–1911: William Mitchell Ramsay
* 1911–1937: Alexand ...
at the
University of Aberdeen
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.
She was born in
London
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and brought up in London,
Beijing
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and
Bonn
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. She has lectured in history at
Sheffield University
, mottoeng = To discover the causes of things
, established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions:
– Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield
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, and literature and history at the University of Aberdeen.
Selected works
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Fiction
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* (original title ''Astraea'' London: Jonathan Cape, 2001)
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References
External links
randomhouse.co.ukHomepage at the University of Aberdeen
Academics from London
British women academics
Academics of the University of Sheffield
1959 births
Living people
British historians
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
British women historians
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