# Anne K. Mellor

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Anne K. Mellor Born Anne Kostelanetz Mellor (1941-07-15) July 15, 1941 (age 84) Spouse Ronald J. Mellor Children 1 Academic background Education Brown University (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) Academic work Discipline English Literature Women's Studies Institutions University of California, Los Angeles

**Anne Kostelanetz Mellor** (born July 15, 1941)[1] is an American academic working as a Distinguished Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies at the [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles). She specializes in [Romantic literature](/source/Romanticism), British cultural history, [feminist theory](/source/Feminist_theory), [philosophy](/source/Philosophy), [art history](/source/Art_history) and [gender studies](/source/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](/source/Summa_cum_laude)*, from [Brown University](/source/Brown_University) in 1963. She earned a Master of Arts in English in 1964 and a PhD in [comparative literature](/source/Comparative_literature) in 1968, both from [Columbia University](/source/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 Fellowships](/source/Guggenheim_Fellowship) and several [National Endowment for the Humanities](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities) grants.[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Reports of the President and of the Treasurer"](https://books.google.com/books?id=PJHWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Mellor,+Anne+Kostelanetz%22+AND+%221941%22). 1971.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Anne K. Mellor, Distinguished Professor](http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/mellor/index.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172546/http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/mellor/index.html) 2016-03-03 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) at www.english.ucla.edu. Retrieved on 8 July 2007.

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