Katherine Duncan-Jones
Katherine Duncan-Jones | |
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| Born | Katherine Dorothea Duncan-Jones 13 May 1941 |
| Died | 16 October 2022 (aged 81) |
| Occupation(s) | Literary scholar and academic |
| Title | Professor of English Literature |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Bee and Emily Wilson |
| Parent(s) | Austin Duncan-Jones (father) Elsie Duncan-Jones (mother) |
| Relatives | Richard Duncan-Jones (brother) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | King Edward VI High School for Girls |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
| Thesis | Sidney's pictorial imagination (1964) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English studies |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | New Hall, Cambridge Somerville College, Oxford |
Katherine Dorothea Duncan-Jones FRSL (13 May 1941 – 16 October 2022) was an English literature and Shakespeare scholar and was also a Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge (1965–1966), and then Somerville College, Oxford (1966–2001). She was also Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2001. She was a scholar of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.