
She was the Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at New College from 1998 to 2008, when she took up the Presidency of Wolfson College. She has taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, at the University of Liverpool (where she was given an Honorary DLitt in 2002) and at the University of York, from 1977 to 1998, where she had a personal Chair in the Department of English and Related Literature, and where she received an Honorary DLitt in 2007. She took a first-class degree in English Literature from St Hilda's College Oxford in 1968 and an MPhil from St Cross College in 1970. She grew up in London where she went to school at the French Lycée, the City of London School for Girls, and Queen's College. Hermione Lee's numerous talks and presentations on Virginia Woolf can be located on the " Talks & Interviews" webpage.Professor Dame Hermione Lee is a renowned biographer and President of Wolfson College. ' Hermione Lee Recommends the Best Books on Virginia Woolf', Interviewed by David Shackleton, Five Books, 17 June 2016.

Miscellaneous Publications Related to Virgina Woolf The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf. Review of Virginia Woolf's Feminist Aesthetics by Jane Goldman, Review of English Studies, Jan 1999. Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Essays on the Relation Between Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship. 'Crimes of Criticism: Virginia Woolf and Literary Journalism'. 'Am I Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' Writing the Lives of Writers. 'Biomythographers: Rewriting the Lives of Virginia Woolf'.

Review of Vita & Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V.Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Suzanne Raitt, Essays in Criticism, Jan 1994, pp.75-79. 'A Burning Glass: Reflections on Virginia Woolf'.Virginia Woolf: A Centernary Perspective. Review of Virginia Woolf: Sources of Madness and Art by Jean Love and of The Unknown Virginia Woolf by Roger Poole, Review of English Studies, n.s. Anne Olivier Bell, and of Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings of Virginia Woolf, ed. (Review of The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol I, ed. 'Sharp Things, Precise Moments', English, Vol XXVI, No. (Review of Virginia Woolf: A Critical Study by Avrom Fleishman). 'Network of Allusion', Essays in Criticism, Vol XXVI, No. A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals. Chatto & Windus, 1996 Knopf, 1997 Vintage paperback, 1997.

Revised and reissued as the introduction to Three Guineas, Hogarth Press, 1991.
