Melveena McKendrick

Melveena Christine McKendrick, FBA (born 23 March 1941) is a retired Welsh academic. She was Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Cambridge from 1999 to 2008, and served as its Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education from January 2004 to October 2008.[1][2] She has also been a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge since 1967;[1] she is currently a life fellow having retired from full-time academia in 2008.[3]

Early life

She attended Neath Grammar School for Girls and Dyffryn Grammar School, Port Talbot, before reading for a BA in Spanish at King's College London and a PhD at Girton College, Cambridge, which she received in 1967.[1]

Personal life

In 1967, the then Melveena Jones married Neil McKendrick, later Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[1] Together they have two daughters.[1]

Honours

In 1999, McKendrick was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[4] In 2013, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt) degree by the University of South Wales "in recognition of her outstanding contribution to literature and the arts".[5]

Selected works

  • McKendrick, Melveena (1974). Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age: A Study of the Mujer Varonil. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521202947.
  • McKendrick, Melveena (1980). Cervantes. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0316560542.
  • McKendrick, Melveena (1989). Theatre in Spain 1490-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521355926.
  • McKendrick, Melveena (1996). The Revealing Image: stage portraits in the theatre of the Golden Age. London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College. ISBN 978-0904188219.
  • McKendrick, Melveena (2000). Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity. Woodbridge: Tamesis. ISBN 978-1855660694.
  • McKendrick, Melveena (2002). Identities in Crisis: Essays on Honour, Gender and Women in the Comedia. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger. ISBN 978-3935004527.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "McKENDRICK, Prof. Melveena Christine". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Professor Melveena McKendrick". Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Melveena McKendrick". Girton College. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Professor Melveena McKendrick". British Academy. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Professor Melveena McKendrick PhD Litt.D FBA". University of South Wales. 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2017.