Norman Jeffares

Alexander Norman Jeffares AM (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), 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 and then moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1948. At the very early age of 30 he was appointed to the Jury Chair of English at the University of Adelaide where he stayed for 17 years. While there, he was a founder of the The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. He returned to the UK when appointed to the Chair of English at the University of Leeds before finally moving to the University of Stirling in 1974.

He retired as Emeritus Professor of English in 1985.

Honours

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

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


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