Sally Shuttleworth

Sally Ann Shuttleworth CBE FBA (born 5 September 1952^[1]) is a British academic specialising in Victorian literature. She is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. From 2006 to 2011, she was Head of the Humanities Division, University of Oxford.^[2] From 2014 to 2019 she was a principal investigator on the Diseases of Modern Life project, a multidisciplinary research initiative exploring nineteenth century scientific and cultural ideas related to stress and information overload.^[3]

She was educated at the University of York (BA English Literature and Sociology 1974), and Darwin College, Cambridge (PhD English Literature 1980).^[4] She then lectured in English at Princeton University, the University of Leeds and the University of Sheffield.^[5] She has appeared on Woman's Hour.^[6]

On 16 July 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).^[7] She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to the study of English literature.^[8]

Books

Author

• George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science (1984)
• Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (1996)
• The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840–1900 (2010)
• Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019) - coauthor^[9]

Editor

• Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts 1830-1890
• Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy (1999)
• The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob by George Eliot (2004)
• Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, hriOnline (2004–20)
• Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. Blackmore (2008)
• Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science co-edited with Mary Jacobus and Evelyn Fox Keller (2013)