Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit, FRHistS (born 15 April 1960) is a British scholar, critic, and writer who specializes in British literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her work intersects with the fields of history, politics, and philosophy, and she has a special interest in the Godwin-Shelley family of writers.
Biography.
Clemit was born in North Northumberland and educated at the Duchess's Grammar School, Alnwick. She took a first-class B.A. (Hons.) degree in English Language and Literature from Mansfield College, Oxford, from where she also holds an M. Phil. She took a D. Phil in English from St Hugh's College, Oxford.
She taught at Durham University from 1989 to 2015, where she was awarded a Personal Chair in the Department of English in 2005 and held a Christopherson/Knott Foundation Fellowship in 2012-13. She is currently Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London and a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She was a member of the inaugural class of Fellows at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She has held Visiting Fellowships at, among other places, All Souls College, Oxford; Mansfield College, Oxford; and Wadham College, Oxford.
Clemit works on the two generations of writers and thinkers influenced by the French Revolution in Britain, with a particular focus on the anarchist political philosopher and novelist William Godwin (1756-1836) and his associates. She has produced numerous scholarly and classroom editions of novels, life writing, and other works by Godwin, as well as by Elizabeth Inchbald, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. She is currently editing "The Letters of William Godwin", which is being published in six volumes by Oxford University Press. "Volume I: 1778-1797", for which she held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, was published in 2011, and "Volume II: 1798-1805" in 2014. In 2017 she led a collaborative project to digitise and make publicly available the sole surviving manuscripts of Godwin's principal works, "Political Justice" (1793) and "Caleb Williams" (1794), which are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Images of the manuscripts are available to view on "The" "Shelley-Godwin Archive". She has written on letter writing as a social practice and on scholarly editing as a mode of historical enquiry. She is a regular reviewer for the "Times Literary Supplement" and a contributor to Tom Hodgkinson's "Idler" magazine.
She received the Keats-Shelley Association of America Distinguished Scholar Award for 2016. She is a Fellow of the English Association (2011), and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2019).