Julie Sanders DL is the Principal of

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Career

Sanders gained her doctorate at the

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, and studied at

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and at

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. In 1995 she took a lectureship at

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and in 2004 joined the

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as Chair of English Literature and Drama. She was Head of the School of English from 2010 to 2013 and was subsequently seconded for two years to the

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, China, joint venture campus as Vice Provost, launching the

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's first centre in China for Digital Copyright and IT research. In 2015, Sanders was appointed Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at

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, and at the same institution she served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2017 to 2022. Sanders was awarded the

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Prize by the British Academy for international women’s scholarship. Sanders has been a member of the expert panel on

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's ''

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'' for "

The Anatomy of Melancholy ''The Anatomy of Melancholy'' (full title: ''The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Ph ...

", "The History of

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", " Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy – theatre of blood", " The Metaphysical Poets – sex and death in the 17th century" and " Pastoral Literature – the romantic idealisation of the countryside". She was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey in June 2025.

Selected publications

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References

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