Mary Longstaff Jacobus, CBE, FBA (born 4 May 1944) is a British literary scholar.
[1][2] The last two years of her doctorate were spent as Randall McIver Junior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; after a year lecturing at the University of Manchester, she returned to Oxford as a Fellow and Tutor in English at LMH and, from 1972, as a Common University Fund lecturer.
In 1980, she moved to Cornell University to take up the post of associate professor of English, and two years later she was promoted to a full professorship.
From 2006 until 2011, she was Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University.
[3] She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, and the Arts Humanities Research Council (UK).