Elinor Shaffer (born 1935) FBA is a professor at the School of Advanced Study, University of London,[1] honorary professor at University College, London, editor of the Comparative Literature series of Legenda (imprint), and editor of Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, a book series published by Continuum Books.
She is also UK director of the British Academy Network on Reception Studies and a Distinguished Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford.
She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, from which she holds the degree of B.A.
Visiting Professorships have taken her, among other places, to Brown University, Stanford University (USA), Freie Universität Berlin, and to Zurich and Stockholm.
She was elected to be a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995[2] and awarded an Honorary doctorate by the University of Bucharest in 2013.