Geoff Ward (academic)

Geoffrey Christopher Ward, FRSA (born 1954) is a British academic specialising in American literature.[1] He has been Principal of Homerton College, University of Cambridge since 2013.[2] In 2020, the College announced that Ward would retire in September 2021 after eight years as Principal.[3][4]

Geoff Ward
Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge
Assumed office
2013
Preceded byKate Pretty
Personal details
Born
Geoffrey Christopher Ward

1954 (age 66–67)
NationalityBritish
Academic background
EducationManchester Grammar School
Alma materClare College, Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish literature
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Early life and education

Ward was educated at Manchester Grammar School, under Dr Donald Adamson and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature and graduated with a first-class degree in 1975.[5]

Academic career

He formerly worked as lecturer then senior lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. Following a year spent lecturing in Japan, he took up a Chair and the Headship of Department at the University of Dundee in 1995.[6] His first book Statutes of Liberty: The New York School of Poets (1993: new edition, 2001) was succeeded by other books and articles including The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present (Polity, 2002), which he researched during a year spent in the USA as a Fellow of the Leverhulme Foundation.[6] In 2002, he was made a Deputy Principal at Dundee. He left four years later to serve as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and then Vice Principal at Royal Holloway, University of London. He joined Homerton College, Cambridge as Principal in 2013.[7][8]

In addition to his scholarly work, he has written and presented occasional broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, including on David Foster Wallace.[6] A Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he has also been elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.[6]

Personal life

In 1992, Ward married Marion Wynne-Davies.[9] Wynne-Davies is also a scholar of literature, and specialises in Renaissance literature.[10] Together, they have two sons.[9]

References
  1. "Professor Geoff Ward". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  2. LinkedIn
  3. https://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/vacancies#26214
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyyL_t87GjY
  5. "WARD, Prof. Geoffrey Christopher". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2018 (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  6. "People: Professor Geoff Ward". Homerton College. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  7. "Clare Alumnus to become Principal of Homerton". Clare College, Cambridge. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  8. "New Principal for Homerton College". University of Cambridge. 24 January 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  9. "Ward, Prof. Geoffrey Christopher, (born 18 Feb. 1954), Principal, Homerton College, Cambridge, since 2013". Who's Who 2020. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2019. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-281337.
  10. "Prof Marion Wynne-Davies". University of Surrey. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Dr Kate Pretty		 Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge
2013 - present		 Incumbent
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