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Lee, Professor Hermione
Job Title: President of Wolfson College
College: Wolfson
Period/ Subject: 20th/ 21st Century
Email address: hermione.lee@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
My main work is in biography and life-writing studies. Since stepping down from the Goldsmiths’ Chair in 2008 in order to take up the Presidency of Wolfson College, I have published Biography: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 2009, reprinted 2011, and am working on a biography of the English novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald. (See “From the Margins”, on writing Penelope Fitzgerald’s biography, The Guardian,
3 April 2010). I am starting up a Life-Writing Centre at Wolfson College, with the support of the English Faculty. A programme of lectures, workshops, conferences and graduate scholarships is planned. I teach an undergraduate course and an Mst option on life-writing and lecture widely on biography, for instance, in 2011-12, at Mishkenot Sha’ananim in Jerusalem, the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, the Huntington Library, and the Fondation Wiener-Anspach in Brussels. I have been asked to give the Leslie Stephen Lecture at the University of Cambridge in 2012. Other research recently or soon to be published includes “In Separate Directions: Ford Madox Ford and French Networks”, in Ford Madox Ford: France and Provence, ed Domnique Lemarchal and Claire Davison-Pégon, International Ford Madox Ford Studies 10, Rodopi, 2011; an essay on William Trevor and “Reading”, in William Trevor: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed Paul Delaney and Michael Parker, Manchester University Press, forthcoming in 2012; and an introduction to The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen in the Sir James Fitzjames Stephen Selected Edition, eds Christopher Ricks and Frances Whistler, OUP, forthcoming in 2012/2013. My long out-of-print books on The Novels of Virginia Woolf, (1977) and Philip Roth (1982), have been reissued in the Routledge Revivals series, with new introductions, in 2010. I am happy to offer graduate supervision in fields connected to my books on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, Philip Roth, and biography.
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