Clare Lees

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).