Dinah Lynne BirchCBE (born 4 October 1953) is an English literary critic. She is a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Impact at the University of Liverpool, and is now Emeritus Professor of English Literature there.[1] She was a student at St Hugh's College, Oxford,[2] and also undertook her doctorate at the University of Oxford.[1] In 1980, she became the first woman to be elected to the Governing Body of Merton College.
Her work has been primarily on Victorian literature, and among the authors on whom she has published writings are Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Alfred Tennyson.[3] She has also edited two books on the Victorian critic John Ruskin: Ruskin and Gender (2002) and John Ruskin: Selected Writings (2004).[1] Birch is serving as the General Editor of the 2012 edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.[4] She is the author of Our Victorian Education (2008), writes regularly for the TLS and the LRB, and contributes to arts programmes on radio and television.
In December 2011, Birch was named as a member of the jury for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Jury chair Sir Peter Stothard called her "[one] of Britain's finest professional critics".[5] She is married and has two adult children.[2] Birch lists Middlemarch by George Eliot as her favourite book.[2] She is also a Companion of the Guild of St George.
Birch was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to higher education, literary scholarship, and cultural life.[6]
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Conversation". The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Edited by DinahBirch. Oxford University Press Inc. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University...
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written by DinahBirch, a professor at the University of Liverpool, examines the role of Mr Collins as a clergyman in Jane Austen's writing. Birch says that...
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nominations Martin Amis Tash Aw Paul Bailey Nina Bawden John Berger Carol Birch William Boyd Melvyn Bragg Anita Brookner NoViolet Bulawayo Graeme Macrae...
Maniac in the Cellar. Princeton University Press. Sensation, BBC Radio 4 discussion with John Mullan, Lyn Pykett & DinahBirch (In Our Time, Nov. 6, 2003)...
History A. N. Wilson, novelist, biographer and author of The Victorians DinahBirch, Fellow and tutor in English at Trinity College, Oxford 21 November 2002...
Penguin Books, 2000. The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by DinahBirch, Oxford University Press, 2009 Lodge, Thomas (10 January 2012). Lodge's...
Jenkins). New York: Penguin Books, 1995 (with an introduction and notes by DinahBirch). Oxford University Press, 2020 (first publication of the complete uncut...
2006. "Modernism", in The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. DinahBirch. Oxford University Press Inc. Oxford Reference Online. Paul Griffiths...
"modernism", The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Edited by DinahBirch. Oxford University Press Inc. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University...
Companions include Ewan Anderson, Chris Baines, David Ogilvy Barrie, DinahBirch, Sir Quentin Blake, Peter Burman, Suzanne Fagence Cooper, Peter Day,...
literature at the Literary Movements site "Victorian Realism – how real?" on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time featuring Philip Davis, A.N. Wilson and DinahBirch...
spent more time on his music he could have become a duller composer". DinahBirch, reviewing The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me, a biography...
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2011 "modernism", The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Edited by DinahBirch. Oxford University Press Inc. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University...
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