Liz Herbert McAvoy was educated at Aberystwyth University, where she got her first degree in 1977 and her PhD in Medieval English Literature.
[1][2] In 2005, she joined Swansea University,[2] where she was Reader in Gender in English Studies and Medieval Literature.
[4][5] She has also held a Personal Chair in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University.
[6] She served as Associate Director at the Swansea University Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research.
[3] After becoming Vice-President of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship in 2013, she was promoted to President in 2015, serving until 2017.