{{short description|American academic}} {{Infobox academic | name = Anne K. Mellor | birth_name = Anne Kostelanetz Mellor | birth_date = {{birth date and age|July 15, 1941}} | spouse = [[Ronald J. Mellor]] | children = 1 | education = [[Brown University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Columbia University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[PhD]]) | workplaces = [[University of California, Los Angeles]] | discipline = [[English Literature]]<br>[[Women's Studies]] }}
'''Anne Kostelanetz Mellor''' (born July 15, 1941)<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PJHWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Mellor,+Anne+Kostelanetz%22+AND+%221941%22 |title = Reports of the President and of the Treasurer|year = 1971}}</ref> is an American academic working as a Distinguished Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]]. She specializes in [[Romanticism|Romantic literature]], British cultural history, [[feminist theory]], [[philosophy]], [[art history]] and [[gender studies]]. She is most known for a series of essays and books that introduced forgotten female Romantic writers into literary history, and she edited the first volume of feminist essays on Romantic writers in 1988, entitled ''Romanticism and Feminism''.
==Education== Mellor received her Bachelor of Arts, ''[[summa cum laude]]'', from [[Brown University]] in 1963. She earned a Master of Arts in English in 1964 and a PhD in [[comparative literature]] in 1968, both from [[Columbia University]].
==Scholarship== Her most important books on women and Romanticism include ''Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830'' (2000), ''Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters'' (1988), ''Romanticism and Gender'' (1993). She also co-edited ''British Literature 1780-1830'', a literary anthology that contributed to the prominence of women writers in Romanticism course syllabi and literary criticism.
==Awards== In 1999, Mellor received the Keats-Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar Award. She has received, among many others, two [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]s and several [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] grants.<ref>[http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/mellor/index.html Anne K. Mellor, Distinguished Professor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172546/http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/mellor/index.html |date=2016-03-03 }} at www.english.ucla.edu. Retrieved on 8 July 2007.</ref>
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