Background
Mrs. Steedman was born in 1947 in the United Kingdom.
Mrs. Steedman was born in 1947 in the United Kingdom.
Carolyn Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex with an undergraduate degree in English and American Studies in 1968, and then completed a masters degree at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1974. Mrs. Steedman returned to Newnham College to complete her doctorate, which was awarded in 1989.
Mrs. Steedman was a primary school teacher from 1974 until 1982, when she joined the Institute of Education in the University of London as a researcher. Between 1983 and 1984, she was a fellow there, before lecturing at the University of Warwick, where she was appointed senior lecturer in 1988, reader in 1991 and professor of Social History in 1995.
During 1998-1999, she was a director of Warwick's Centre for Study of Social History. Since 2013, she has been an Emeritus Professor of History at University of Warwick, where she had previously been a professor of History since 1999.
Quotes from others about the person
"Steedman seems to be writing not only about the search for the lost self but also, perhaps for the lost literary form that history cannot take today."