Janet Todd

Janet Margaret Todd (born 10 September 1942) is a Welsh-born academic and a well-respected author of many books on women in literature. Todd was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida, where she undertook a doctorate on the poet John Clare. She is currently the Herbert JC Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen and is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. On 1 September 2008, Professor Todd took up the post of President of Lucy Cavendish College. She is the seventh President of the College. Janet Todd's research concerns literature and culture of the Restoration and eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over a long career, primarily in the US and the UK at...