Philippa Berry

Background

Philippa Berry was born on April 2, 1955, in London, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Thomas Edward Berry, an oil company executive, and Celia Emily Berry (maiden name Browne), a legal secretary.

Education

Philippa Berry obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from King's College Cambridge in 1977. She obtained Master of Arts in English from the University of Sussex in English Literature in 1978. In 1985, Berry earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Sussex in Comparative Renaissance Literature.

Career

Philippa Berry worked as a Lecturer at the University of al-Qarawiyyin, Fes, Morocco from 1980 to 1984. After lecturing for a year at the University of East Anglia, she occupied the same post at the West London Institute of Higher Education serving in that capacity until 1988. From 1988 to 2004 Berry was a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at King's College, Cambridge. She took early retirement on grounds of ill health in 2004

Achievements

• Philippa Berry is an author and former educator who wrote books and articles on English Renaissance literature and on postmodern culture and literary theory, including Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen, and Shakespeare's Feminine Endings.
  
  Berry was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge from 1988 to 2004. She was listed as a noteworthy English Literature educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Textures of Renaissance Knowledge

    (The volume edited by Philippa Berry and Margaret Tudeau-C...)

    2003
  • Shadow of Spirit: Postmodernism and Religion

    (By illuminating the striking affinity between the most in...)

    1993
  • Shakespeare's Feminine Endings

    (Philippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thoug...)

    1999
  • Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen 1989

Religion

Philippa is a devotee of the renowned teacher of Indian yoga, Sri Aurobindo, who was himself a member of King's College, Cambridge.

Politics

A former member of the British Communist Party and British Labour Party, Berry is now a socialist and feminist with strong environmental views.

Membership

Philippa Berry has been a member of the Shakespeare Association of America and of the Renaissance Society of America.

Interests

• yoga, meditation

• Sport & Clubs

  walking

Connections

Philippa Berry married Said Ayad on July 2, 1984. After they divorced, she married Frank Philip Payne on March 25, 1991. They divorced in 2003. On July 11th 2015 Philippa married Nicholas Robin Mann.

Father:

Thomas Edward Berry

Mother:

Celia Emily Berry

husband:

Nicholas Robin Mann

colleague:

Margaret Tudeau-Clayton