Melveena Christine McKendrick, FBA (born 23 March 1941) is a retired Welsh academic.
She was Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Cambridge from 1999 to 2008, and served as its Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education from January 2004 to October 2008.
[3] She attended Neath Grammar School for Girls and Dyffryn Grammar School, Port Talbot, before reading for a BA in Spanish at King's College London and a PhD at Girton College, Cambridge, which she received in 1967.
[1] In 1967, the then Melveena Jones married Neil McKendrick, later Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
[4] In 2013, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt) degree by the University of South Wales "in recognition of her outstanding contribution to literature and the arts".