Jane Roberts (literary scholar)
Jane Roberts, FSA, FEA, is a Northern Irish literary scholar. She was the Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at King's College London from 1998 to 2001.
Early life and education[edit]
Jane Roberts was raised in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. After attending Cambridge House School, she read modern languages at Trinity College Dublin graduating in 1956,[1] then completed a diploma of higher education and an MLitt in 1959[1] with a thesis on women in Anglo-Saxon England. She then studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1959 to 1961; she was awarded a DPhil in 1967.[2]
Academia[edit]
Between 1961 and 1964, she was an assistant at the University of Glasgow. Promotion to a lectureship in English literature came in 1964. In 1968, she was appointed to a lectureship in Old and Middle English at University College Dublin. She was there for a year, moving to King's College London in 1969 to take up a lectureship in English. She was promoted to a readership in 1982 and a personal chair ten years later. She was appointed to the Professorship of English Language and Medieval Literature in 1998.[2] She retired in 2001[3] and was appointed to an emeritus professorship at King's and a senior research fellowship at the Institute of English Studies.[4]
Roberts's books include The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book (1979), A Thesaurus of Old English (co-authored with Christian Kay, 1995), A Guide to Scripts Used in English Writing up to 1550 (2005), and (as co-editor) Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (2009).[4] She was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2009.[5] She was also elected a fellow of the English Association in 2014.[6] She was the subject of a Festschrift published in 2001.[7]
In 2022 she was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Sherlock, D.J.M. (2006). Trinity College Record Volume 2006. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. ISBN 1-871408-07-5.
- ^ a b Louise M. Sylvester and Christian J. Kay, "Jane Roberts: A Personal Tribute", in Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester (eds), Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts, Costerus New Series, no. 133 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 2001), pp. v-vi.
- ^ "Professor Jane Roberts", King's College London. Archived at the Internet Archive on 16 November 2001.
- ^ a b "Professor Jane Roberts", King's College London. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ^ "Prof Jane Roberts", Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ^ "List of Fellows", The English Association. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ^ Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester (eds), Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts, Costerus New Series, no. 133 (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 2001)
- ^ "Admittance Day 2022". www.ria.ie. Royal Irish Academy. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.