Jill Mann

Mann was born in York, where her father was engaged in war work, but brought up in Sunderland, Co. Durham, where she was educated at the Bede Grammar School for Girls.

In 1961 she won a place at St Anne's College, Oxford, and took her BA (1st Class Hons) in English Language and Literature in 1964.

She held a Research Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge, from 1968 to 1971; from 1971 to 1972 she taught medieval and some modern literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

In 1972 she returned to Cambridge as an Official Fellow of Girton College, and in 1974 she was appointed to an Assistant Lectureship in the Faculty of English, upgraded to Lecturer in 1978.

She produced an edition and translation of the Latin beast epic Ysengrimus, with a lengthy account of the poem's relation to its historical context in twelfth-century Flanders; she is currently working on an edition and translation of the Speculum Stultorum, another twelfth-century Latin beast epic, written by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury.