Nicolette Zeeman

Nicolette "Nicky" Zeeman (born 3 December 1956) is a British literary scholar. She has been Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge since January 2016 and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge since 1995.

Early life and education Zeeman was born on 3 December 1956 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. She is the daughter of Sir Christopher Zeeman, a mathematician, and Elizabeth Salter, who was an academic specialising in medieval literature. She was educated at Mill Mount Grammar School, an all-girls grammar school in York. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University for the 2014–15 academic year.

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