__NOTOC__ Sally Ann Shuttleworth (born 5 September 1952) is a British academic specialising in

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. She is Professor of English Literature at 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 ...

and a

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of St Anne's College, Oxford. From 2006 to 2011, she was Head of the

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. From 2014 to 2019 she was a principal investigator on the Diseases of Modern Life project, a multidisciplinary research initiative exploring nineteenth century scientific and cultural ideas related to stress and information overload. She was educated at the University of York (BA English Literature and Sociology 1974), and Darwin College, Cambridge (PhD English Literature 1980). She then lectured in English at

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, the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

and the

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. She has appeared on

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. On 16 July 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). She was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to the study of English literature.

Books

Author

* ''George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science'' (1984) * ''Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology'' (1996) * ''The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840–1900'' (2010) * ''Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain'' (2019) - coauthor

Editor

* ''Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts 1830-1890'' * ''

Two on a Tower ''Two on a Tower: A Romance'' (1882) is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy it is one of his minor works. The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, set in late Victorian Dorset. Epigraph Hardy plac ...

'' by Thomas Hardy (1999) * ''The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob'' by

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...

(2004) *
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index
', v. 4.0, hriOnline (2004–20) * ''

Lorna Doone ''Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor'' is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly ar ...

: A Romance of Exmoor'' by R. D. Blackmore (2008) * ''Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science'' co-edited with Mary Jacobus and Evelyn Fox Keller (2013)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shuttleworth, Sally Living people Fellows of St Anne's College, Oxford British academics of English literature Alumni of Darwin College, Cambridge Harvard University alumni Fellows of the British Academy 1952 births Commanders of the Order of the British Empire