Belinda Jack is Fellow and Tutor in French literature and Language at Christ Church, Oxford at the University of Oxford,[1] Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College[2] and the author of books such as The Woman Reader and George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large.

[3] Jack is an 'Official Student' at Christ Church, Oxford making her a Fellow and a Member of the Governing Body at the college.

[5] In September 2023 Jack was awarded a Title of Distinction of Professor of French and Literary Studies by the University of Oxford.

[11] As well as authoring books and academic publications, Jack is widely published through her many articles, essays, chapters and reviews.

The Woman Reader is a landmark work that no feminist-or for that matter, general reader-should miss"[14] The Sunday Telegraph wrote "A rarefied study of women's reading over the centuries – a subject that is vast, but also intensely private, and that has left little trace for most of history"[14] Lesley McDowell for The Independent wrote "Jack's excellent history begins from a position of anxiety, which she argues is caused by women's access to the written word.