Mary Jacobus (academic)
Mary Longstaff Jacobus, is a British literary scholar.Career
Born on 4 May 1944 to Marcus and Diana Jacobus, Jacobus attended Oxford High School before going up to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to read English; she graduated in 1965 and then completed her doctorate in 1970. The last two years of her doctorate were spent as Randall McIver Junior Research Fellow at LMH; after a year lecturing at the University of Manchester, she returned to Oxford as a fellow and tutor in English at LMH and, from 1972, as a Common University Fund lecturer. In 1980, she moved to Cornell University to take up the post of Associate Professor of English, and two years later she was promoted to a full professorship. From 1989 to 2000, Jacobus was Cornell's John Wendell Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies. She then became Professor of English at the University of Cambridge and took up a fellowship at Churchill College. Jacobus retired in 2011, but continues to hold an emerita professorship at Cambridge and Cornell.Honours
In 2009, Jacobus was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2012 for "services to literary scholarship".Selected publications
- Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads .
- Women Writing and Women Writing About Women.
- Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism.
- Body/Politics: Women and the Discourse of Science.
- Romanticism, Writing and Sexual Difference: Essays on The Prelude
- First Things: the Maternal Imaginary in Literature, Art and Psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading.
- The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein.
- Romantic Things: A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud.
- Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint.
