Gillian Beer
Dame Gillian Beer was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford. On graduating she lectured at Bedford College, London (1959-62) and Liverpool University (1962-4). A Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, between 1965 and 1994, Gillian Beer began lecturing at Cambridge in 1966 and became Reader in Literature and Narrative in 1971. She was made Professor of English in 1989 and in 1994 became King Edward VII Professor of English Literature and President of Clare Hall at Cambridge. She holds honorary degrees from Liverpool University, Leicester University, Cardiff University, Anglia Polytechnic, London University, Oxford University, Queen's University Belfast and Université de Paris Sorbonne, and has been awarded medals by MIT, St Andrew's University and the National Autonomous University, Mexico City. Gillian Beer became a DBE in 1998.
