Jacqueline Banerjee, our second Contributing Editor of the Victorian Web, took her BA and PhD degrees from King's College London. After holding lectureships in English literature at the Universities of British Columbia, Canada, and Cape Coast, Ghana, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Poona, India. On returning to England she was awarded another research fellowship, this time at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from which she went on to become a long-term visiting lecturer at Kobe College, Japan. During a sabbatical in England in 1990-91, she was also an honorary faculty member at her alma mater, King's. Since returning from Japan in 2001, she and her husband have been living in Surrey, U.K.
Her publications include Through the Northern Gate: Childhood and Growing Up in British Fiction, 1718-1901 (Peter Lang, 1996), Paul Scott (Writers and Their Works series, Northcote House/British Council, 1999), Literary Surrey (John Owen Smith, 2005), and numerous articles in journals such as College English, English, English Studies, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, London Magazine, the TLS, and The Victorian Newsletter. She continues to publish regularly in the areas of Victorian and postcolonial studies, and is currently writing her second book for the Writers and Their Work Series, on George Meredith.
Last modified 24 September 2009