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Clare Lees

b. 1958

Professor of medieval literature and history of the language, formerly of King's College London, now at the Institute of English Studies

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About Clare Lees

Born 1958. Clare Lees is a literary scholar, university teacher, medievalist, medieval literature scholar and scholar of English.

Clare A. Lees is professor of medieval literature and history of the language, and Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London.

Education Lees earned her Bachelor of Arts and master's degree at the University of Leeds before earning her PhD at the University of Liverpool.

In 2013, Lees was director of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, a Doctoral Training Partnership funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Lees featured on the panel of experts for the 'Beowulf' episode of 'In Our Time', broadcast 5 March 2015.

Lees was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2015. Author of 'Tradition And Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England' (1999). Co-Editor with Gillian R. Overing, A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes (2006). Editor of The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature (2013). With Gillian R. Overing, The Contemporary Medieval in Practice (UCL Press, 2019).

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Born
1958
Birth century
Education
University of Leeds
Employers
King's College London, Institute of English Studies, University of London School of Advanced Study Institute of English Studies
Also known as
Clare A. Lees, Clare A Lees

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Who is Clare Lees?

professor of medieval literature and history of the language, formerly of King's College London, now at the Institute of English Studies

When was Clare Lees born?

Clare Lees was born in 1958.

What is Clare Lees's occupation?

Clare Lees is a literary scholar, university teacher, medievalist, medieval literature scholar and scholar of English.

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