Background
Beer, Janet Patricia was born on August 1, 1956 in Bath, England. Daughter of Derek Stanley John Beer and Jean Patricia Bovey.
( A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wha...)
A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's short stories, Wharton's novellas, Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease are compared. There are also essays on ethnicity in the work of Chopin, Wharton's New England stories, Gilman's innovative use of genre and "The Yellow Wallpaper" on film. This paperback edition includes a new Preface to the material, providing a useful update on recent scholarship on these three popular writers.
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Beer, Janet Patricia was born on August 1, 1956 in Bath, England. Daughter of Derek Stanley John Beer and Jean Patricia Bovey.
Bachelor in English Language and Literature, Reading University, England, 1978. Master of Arts in American Literature, Warwick University, England, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, Warwick University, England, 1984.
She took over from Howard Newby in February 2015, having previously been Vice-Chancellor at Oxford Brookes University and Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a graduate of the University of Reading and Warwick University and held a fellowship at Yale University. She worked for the Inner London Education Authority between 1983 and 1989 and has fulfilled academic and leadership roles at Warwick, Roehampton and Manchester Metropolitan.
Beer is the current chair of the steering group for the National Student Survey (HEPISG).
In 2011 she was elected as a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
( A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wha...)
She came to the end of her term of office as Chair of the University Alliance in 2012. From 2000 until 2007 she was a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Education & Skills Select Committee. She has served a full term as a Board Member at the HEA and was founding Chair of the Polyvinyl chloride Network.
She was an Editorial Board member on "The Journal of American Studies from 1997-2011, Associate Editor of "The Year"s Work in English Studies" from 1999-2007 and a Director of Carcanet Press from 1999-2006.
She was a member of the Peer Review Panel for English at the AHRC from 2000-2005 and continues to be a member of the Peer Review College. She has also fulfilled a variety of different Board and Chairing roles for the QAA, Leadership Foundation, British Association for American Studies, the Fulbright Commission and the Council of University Deans of Arts and Humanities.
She co-chairs the Equality Challenge Unit, is a member of the Universities United Kingdom Board and the Board of UCAS, and she chairs Supreme People's Assembly (Supporting Professionalism in Admissions). She is a Higher Education Commissioner (IPPR), and a member of the Advisory Board of the Higher Education Policy Institute.
Married David Roy Woodman, September 14, 1996.; children: Thomas Andrew Goodwyn, Helena Patricia Beer Goodwyn.