Stephanie Hollis

Stephanie Joan Hollis (born 1946) is a New Zealand scholar of English, and is emeritus professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in medieval literature.

Academic career

Hollis earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide, and then completed a PhD in English in 1977 at the Australian National University. Hollis was the Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern European Studies at the university, which was created in 2003 in response to an increase in interest partly attributed to The Lord of the Rings.

Hollis retired and was appointed emeritus professor in 2009. She was a trustee of Auckland Library Heritage Trust from 2011 to 2016. Hollis served on the International Editorial Board of the journal Parergon. This was the "only significant book-length work" to be published on New Zealand manuscripts since a catalogue of holdings by Margaret Manion, Vera Vines, and Christopher de Hamel published in 1989. Hollis has also written on Sir George Grey's collections in New Zealand and South Africa, and the founding of the priory at Minster-in-Thanet, and the poems Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf.

Selected works

Books Hollis, Stephanie, Barking Abbey and Herbals and Medical writing in

Journal articles