President

I studied at the universities of Cambridge and Sussex and taught first at the University of Bonn, Germany, and then in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick from 1971 to the end of 2009, when I retired as Reader Emeritus. I have been co-editor of the George Eliot Review since 1994 and a member of the Fellowship since before that. In 1992 and 1995 I helped organize two conferences at Warwick in conjunction with the Fellowship: ‘George Eliot and the Heart of England’ and ‘George Eliot and Europe’. A collection of essays arising from the latter was published as George Eliot and Europe (1997), and I have also edited the Everyman Paperback edition of Daniel Deronda (1999), and the Oxford Reader’s Companion to George Eliot (2000). My other publications include Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (1992) and George Eliot, European Novelist (2011). In 2022 I had the honour of taking over from Jonathan Ouvry as President of the Fellowship