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Sally Shuttleworth

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Sally Ann Shuttleworth CBE FBA (born 5 September 1952[1]) is a British academic specialising in Victorian literature. She is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. From 2006 to 2011, she was Head of the Humanities Division, University of Oxford.[2] 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.[3]

She was educated at the University of York (BA English Literature and Sociology 1974), and Darwin College, Cambridge (PhD English Literature 1980).[4] She then lectured in English at Princeton University, the University of Leeds and the University of Sheffield.[5] She has appeared on Woman's Hour.[6]

On 16 July 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[7] She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to the study of English literature.[8]

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  • 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[9]

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  1. ^ "Shuttleworth, Prof. Sally Ann". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2022. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U284761. Retrieved 2023-01-20. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Professor Sally Shuttleworth". Academic Profile. St Anne's College, Oxford. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Professor Sally Shuttleworth". diseasesofmodernlife.web.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  4. ^ "Shuttleworth, Prof. Sally Ann". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  5. ^ "Head of Division - Oxford Humanities Division". www.humanities.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2011-10-09.
  6. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, 10/08/2010".
  7. ^ "British Academy Fellowship reaches 1,000 as 42 new UK Fellows are welcomed". British Academy. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  8. ^ "No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B10.
  9. ^ "Anxious Times". upittpress.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.