Dinah Birch

Dinah Lynne Birch (born 4 October 1953) is an English literary critic. She is a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Impact at the University of Liverpool, and is now Emerita Professor of English Literature there. She was a student at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and also undertook her doctorate at the University of Oxford. She has also edited two books on the Victorian critic John Ruskin: Ruskin and Gender and John Ruskin: Selected Writings (2004). She is the author of Our Victorian Education (2008), writes regularly for the TLS and the LRB, and contributes to arts programmes on radio and television.

In December 2011, Birch was named as a member of the jury for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Jury chair Sir Peter Stothard called her "[one] of Britain's finest professional critics". She is married and has two adult children. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 2026.