Belinda Jack
Belinda Elizabeth Jack is a British literary scholar.
Life
Belinda Jack studied literature at the Sorbonne and the University of Kent (BA) and received her doctorate (DPhil) in 1989 with a thesis on the literature of Négritude at St John's College , Oxford University . She has since worked as a research assistant at various colleges at Oxford University and is a tutor and fellow at Christ Church . She has been reading rhetoric at Gresham College , London , since 2013 .
Jack writes literary reviews and features in The Wall Street Journal , Literary Review , The Times Literary Supplement , Times Higher Education, and BBC History . In her study on "The Reader", published in 2012, she evaluated the quite sparse sources on women as readers in literary history.
Fonts
- The Woman Reader . New Haven: Yale, 2012
- Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci . London: Chatto and Windus, 2003
- George Sand : A Woman's Life Writ Large . London: Chatto and Windus, 1999
- Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of 'Negro-African' Literature in French . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996
- Francophone Literatures: An Introductory Survey . Oxford: OUP, 1996
- The autonomy of a literature: major theoretical issues in the history and criticism of Negro-African literature in French . University of Oxford, 1989
Web links
- Literature by and about Belinda Jack in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Belinda Jack , at Christ Church (as of 2009)
- Belinda Jack , at Gresham College (2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katja Mellmann: Men have always thought about what women read . Review, in: FAZ , February 16, 2013, p. 32
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jack, Belinda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jack, Belinda Elizabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |