Dinah Lynne Birch CBE (born 4 October 1953) is an English literary critic.
[1] Birch is serving as the General Editor of the 2012 edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
[4] She is the author of Our Victorian Education (2008), writes regularly for the TLS and the LRB, and contributes to arts programmes on radio and television.
Jury chair Sir Peter Stothard called her "[one] of Britain's finest professional critics".
Birch was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to higher education, literary scholarship, and cultural life.