Elinor Shaffer (born 1935) FBA is a professor at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, honorary professor at University College, London, editor of the Comparative Literature series of

Legenda (imprint) Legenda (Latin, "things to be read") is an imprint founded in 1995 by the European Humanities Research Centre at Oxford University, England. In 2004, Legenda became an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association, in partnership with M ...

, and editor of ''Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe'', a book series published by Continuum Books. She is also UK director of the British Academy Network on Reception Studies and a Distinguished Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford. She was educated at

St Hilda's College, Oxford St Hilda's College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college is named after the Anglo-Saxon Saint, Hilda of Whitby and was founded in 1893 as a hall for women; it ...

, from which she holds the degree of B.A. (Hons) in English Language and Literature, and M.A., and Columbia University, where she was awarded a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature. Shaffer has held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Clare Hall, Cambridge and the University of East Anglia. Visiting Professorships have taken her, among other places, to

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

(USA), Freie Universität Berlin, and to Zurich and

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

. She was elected to be a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded an Honorary doctorate by the University of Bucharest in 2013.

Selected works

* * *E. S. Shaffer;

Thomas F. Glick Thomas F. Glick (born January 28, 1939) is an American academic who taught in the departments of history and gastronomy at Boston University from 1972 to 2012. He served as the history department's chairperson from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 ...

(2014). ''The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe''. Bloomsbury Academic.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaffer, Elinor 1935 births Academics of the School of Advanced Study Academics of the University of East Anglia Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford Charles Darwin biographers Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Fellows of the British Academy Living people University of California, Berkeley faculty