Mary Jacobus (academic)
Mary Longstaff Jacobus, (born 4 May 1944) is a British literary scholar. Career. Born on 4 May 1944 to Marcus and Diana ("née" Longstaff) Jacobus, Jacobus attended Oxford High School before going up to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (LMH), to read English; she graduated in 1965 and then completed her doctorate in 1970. The last two years of her doctorate were spent as Randall McIver Junior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; after a year lecturing at the University of Manchester, she returned to Oxford as a fellow and tutor in English at LMH and, from  1972, as a Common University Fund lecturer. In 1980, she moved to Cornell University to take up the post of Associate Professor of English, and two years later she was promoted to a full professorship. From 1989 to 2000, Jacobus was Cornell's John Wendell Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies. She then became Grace 2 Professor of English at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge and took up a fellowship at Churchill College. Jacobus retired in 2011, but continues to hold an emerita professorship at Cambridge and Cornell. Honours. In 2009, Jacobus was elected a Fellow  of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012 for "services to literary scholarship".