Alexander Norman "Derry" Jeffares AM (/ˈdʒɛfəz/, 11 August 1920 – 1 June 2005) was an Irish literary scholar.

Early life and education

Works by Norman Jeffares

Jeffares was born in Dublin, educated at Dublin High School, Trinity College Dublin (where he was elected a Scholar in classics in 1941),[1] and Oriel College, Oxford.

Academic career

Jeffares took up his first academic appointment at the Department of English at the University of Groningen in 1947[2] and then moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1948. In 1951, at the very early age of 30, he was appointed to the Jury Chair of English at the University of Adelaide where he stayed until taking up the Chair of English at the University of Leeds in 1957. Finally, he moved to the University of Stirling in 1974. While at Leeds, he was a founder of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature.[3]

He retired as Emeritus Professor of English in 1985.

Honours

In 1978 he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin.[4] On Australia Day 1988, Jeffares was appointed an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia, "for service to the study of Australian literature overseas".[5]

In 2013, an edition of the Yeats Annual was dedicated to him.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "List of Scholars". Scholars of Trinity College Dublin. TCD Life. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  2. ↑ History of the Department of English at the University of Groningen
  3. ↑ Low, Gail (1 September 2015). "Professing the common wealth of literature, Leeds 1957–1969". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 50 (3): 267–281. doi:10.1177/0021989415589356. ISSN 0021-9894. S2CID 146529563. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  4. ↑ Webb, D.A. (1992). J.R., Barlett (ed.). Trinity College Dublin Record Volume 1991. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. ISBN 1-871408-07-5.
  5. ↑ "It's an Honour - Honours - Search Australian Honours". www.itsanhonour.gov.au.
  6. ↑ Gould, Warwick, ed. The Living Stream: Essays in memory of A. Norman Jeffares. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2013. http://books.openedition.org/obp/1698

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