Jane Roberts, FSA, FEA, is a Northern Irish literary scholar.
She was the Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at King's College London from 1998 to 2001.
After attending Cambridge House School, she read modern languages at Trinity College Dublin graduating in 1956,[1] then completed a diploma of higher education and an MLitt in 1959[1] with a thesis on women in Anglo-Saxon England.
She then studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1959 to 1961; she was awarded a DPhil in 1967.
[2] She retired in 2001[3] and was appointed to an emeritus professorship at King's and a senior research fellowship at the Institute of English Studies.