__NOTOC__ Sally Ann Shuttleworth (born 5 September 1952) is a British academic specialising in

Victorian literature Victorian era, Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). In the Victorian era, the novel became the leading literary genre in English. English writing from this era reflects the major transform ...

. She is Professor of English Literature at the

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and a

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St Anne's College, Oxford St Anne's College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 and gained full college status in 1959. Originally a women's college, it has admitted men since 1979. ...

. From 2006 to 2011, she was Head of the

Humanities Division, University of Oxford The various academic faculties, departments, and institutes of the University of Oxford are organised into four divisions, each with its own Head and elected board. They are the Humanities Division; the Social Sciences Division; the Mathematical ...

. From 2014 to 2019 she was a principal investigator on the Diseases of Modern Life project, a multidisciplinary research initiative exploring nineteenth century scientific and cultural ideas related to stress and information overload. She was educated at the

University of York The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public Collegiate university, collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thir ...

(BA English Literature and Sociology 1974), and

Darwin College, Cambridge Darwin College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded on 28 July 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and wo ...

(PhD English Literature 1980). She then lectured in English at

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, the

University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

and the

University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...

. She has appeared on

Woman's Hour ''Woman's Hour'' is a radio magazine programme broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2, and later BBC Radio 4. It has been on the air since 1946. History The first BBC programme for women was the programme cal ...

. On 16 July 2015, she was elected a

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(FBA). She was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to the study of English literature.

Books

Author

* ''George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science'' (1984) * ''Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology'' (1996) * ''The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840–1900'' (2010) * ''Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain'' (2019) - coauthor

Editor

* ''Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts 1830-1890'' * ''

Two on a Tower ''Two on a Tower: A Romance'' (1882) is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy. It is regarded as one of his minor works. It is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, set in late Victorian Dorset. Epigraph Har ...

'' by Thomas Hardy (1999) * ''The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob'' by

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...

(2004) *
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index
', v. 4.0, hriOnline (2004–20) * ''

Lorna Doone ''Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor'' is a novel by R. D. Blackmore, first published in three volumes in London in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particu ...

: A Romance of Exmoor'' by R. D. Blackmore (2008) * ''Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science'' co-edited with Mary Jacobus and Evelyn Fox Keller (2013)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shuttleworth, Sally Living people Academics of the University of Leeds Academics of the University of Sheffield Alumni of Darwin College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of York Fellows of St Anne's College, Oxford British academics of English literature Fellows of the British Academy 1952 births Commanders of the Order of the British Empire