Hilary Fraser

Hilary Fraser, Professor Emerita, Birkbeck, University of London Hilary Fraser is Professor Emerita at Birkbeck, University of London. She taught at Buckingham University (1978-1982), the University of Western Australia (1982-2000), and was Dean of Arts and Humanities at Canterbury Christ Church (2001-2002). In 2002 she became Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck, where she served as Head of English (2005-2009), and Dean of Arts (2009-2017). She was Director of Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (2002-2012) and founding editor of its online journal 19, launched in 2005. She was President of the British Association of Victorian Studies from 2015-2018.