President of Wolfson College
Professor Lee took up office on 1 October 2008.
Hermione Lee grew up in London (her father was a GP in central London) where she went to school at the French Lycée, the City of London School for Girls, and Queen’s College. She took a first-class degree in English Literature from St Hilda’s College Oxford in 1968 and an MPhil from St Cross College in 1970. She has taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, at the University of Liverpool (where she was given an Honorary DLitt in 2002) and at the University of York, from 1977 to 1998, where she had a personal Chair in the Department of English and Related Literature, and where she received an Honorary DLitt in 2007. She was the Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at New College from 1998 to 2008, when she took up the Presidency of Wolfson College. She is the literature Delegate to Oxford University Press and serves on the University’s Recognition of Distinction Committee