Jane Stevenson is Regius Professor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, and previously taught at Cambridge, Sheffield, and Warwick. She has worked in a variety of areas, mostly relating to Latin and the classical tradition or to women’s history. Her publications include The ‘Laterculus Malalianus’ and the School of Archbishop Theodore (Cambridge, 1995), and, with Peter Davidson, Early Modern Women Poets (Oxford, 2001). This particular essay relates to an ongoing interest in pre-modern women access to, and manipulation of, power structures, which has found its most extended expression in Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2005). Her most recent book is Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye (London, 2007), and she is also a novelist.
j.b.stevenson@abdn.ac.uk
Most Relevant Publications
Poetissae: Women and the Language of Authority, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004.
Women Latin Poets, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Early Modern Women Poets, with Peter Davidson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.