Clare Lees
{{short description|British medieval literature professor}}
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{{Infobox academic|honorific_prefix=Professor|name=Clare A. Lees|occupation=Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London|education=University of Leeds (BA, MA)
University of Liverpool (PhD)|discipline=Medieval studies|sub_discipline=Gender studies, Old English literature, Medievalism}}
Clare A. Lees is professor of medieval literature and history of the language, and Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/professor-clare-lees-named-new-director-institute-english-studies|title=Professor Clare Lees named new director of the Institute of English Studies|date=2018-01-10|website=Institute of English Studies|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}}
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.
Career
Lees was professor of medieval literature and history of the language at King's College, University of London from 2001 until 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/clare-lees(a0a0b235-7421-4034-8079-2a85b247da60).html|title=Clare Lees - Research Portal, King's College, London|website=kclpure.kcl.ac.uk|access-date=2019-07-08}}
In 2013, Lees was director of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, a Doctoral Training Partnership funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.{{cite web |title=New AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership announced for arts & humanities postgraduates |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/jfigs/figs-news-publication/ahrc-doctoral-training-patnership |website=ucl.ac.uk |accessdate=4 April 2019 |date=17 October 2013}}
Lees featured on the panel of experts for the 'Beowulf' episode of 'In Our Time', broadcast 5 March 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0542xt7|title=BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Beowulf|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-03-15}}
Lees was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2015.
In January 2018, Lees was named director of the Institute of English Studies of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London.
Expertise
Lees has published on a range of topics including Bede's account of Caedmon and the 'first hymn' in the English language; the Ruthwell Cross; and medieval masculinity.
More recently, Lees and her long-term collaborator and co-author Gillian Overing have explored contemporary medieval art works and poems by Caroline Bergvall, Roni Horn, and Sharon Morris.
Publications
- Author of Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages (1994).{{Cite book |title=Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages|date=1994|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|isbn=9780816624256|edition=NED - New|volume=7 |jstor=10.5749/j.ctttv7fd }}
- Author of 'Tradition And Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England' (1999).{{Cite book |title=Tradition And Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England|date=1999|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|isbn=0-8166-3003-8|edition=NED - New|volume=19}}
- Co-Editor with Gillian R. Overing, A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes (2006).{{Cite web|url=http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02859-9.html|title=A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes Edited by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing|website=www.psupress.org|access-date=2019-07-30}}
- Editor of The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature (2013).{{cite web|url=https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/professor-clare-lees-named-new-director-institute-english-studies|title=Professor Clare Lees named new director of the Institute of English Studies|date=10 January 2018|website=.ies.sas.ac.uk|accessdate=4 April 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.toebi.org.uk/review-clare-a-lees-ed-the-cambridge-history-of-early-medieval-english-literature/|title=Review: Clare A. Lees (ed.), The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature. {{!}} TOEBI : Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland|last=admin|date=9 September 2014 |language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}}
- With Gillian R. Overing, The Contemporary Medieval in Practice (UCL Press, 2019).{{Cite web|url=https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/116929|title=The Contemporary Medieval in Practice|website=UCL Press|language=en|access-date=2020-03-15}}
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