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Author, broadcaster and academic Hermione Lee to give open lecture

Professor Hermione Lee, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at New College, University of Oxford, will give the Ian Gregor Memorial Lecture at the University of Kent on Friday 8 February.

Titled Writing biography: The case of Edith Wharton, Professor Lee's lecture will take place at 6pm in the Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, on the University's Canterbury campus, and is free and open to all. There is disabled access to Keynes College and the lecture theatre.

The Ian Gregor Memorial Lecture is part of the University's Open Lecture Series.

Professor Hermione Lee is well known as a writer, reviewer and broadcaster. She has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, The Observer, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, among others. From 1982 to 1986 she presented Book Four on Channel 4. Her publications include a study of the novels of Virginia Woolf, a critical appreciation of the work of Elizabeth Bowen, a book on Philip Roth, a literary biography of Willa Cather, and many editions and introductions of Bowen, Stevie Smith, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Anthony Trollope, Virginia Woolf, Penelope Fitzgerald and others.

Her biography of Virginia Woolf was published in Britain in 1996 and in the USA in 1997. Her biography of Edith Wharton was published in 2007 to critical acclaim.

In 2003, Professor Lee she was made a Companion of the British Empire for Services to Literature.

Contact: mediaoffice@kent.ac.uk

Story published at 1:28pm 8 February 2008