{{Short description|British literary scholar}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Nicolette''' "'''Nicky'''" '''Zeeman''' (born 3 December 1956) is a British literary scholar. She has been Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge since January 2016 and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge since 1995.<ref name="WW 2018">{{cite web|title=Zeeman, Prof. Nicolette|website=Who's Who 2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.287929|date=1 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="bio Faculty">{{cite web|title=Prof Nicolette Zeeman, King's|url=https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Nicolette.Zeeman/|website=Faculty of English|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=5 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="bio College">{{cite web|title=Prof Nicolette Zeeman|url=http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/fellows/nicolette-zeeman.html|website=King's College|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=5 April 2018}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Zeeman was born on 3 December 1956 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.<ref name="WW 22">{{cite web |title=Zeeman, Prof. Nicolette, (born 3 Dec. 1956), Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, University of Cambridge, since 2016; Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge, since 1995 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U287929 |website=Who's Who 2022 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |date=1 December 2021}}</ref> She is the daughter of Sir Christopher Zeeman, a mathematician, and Elizabeth Salter, who was an academic specialising in medieval literature.<ref name="THE">{{cite news|last1=Reisz|first1=Matthew|title=The family business|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/the-family-business/420678.article|accessdate=5 April 2018|work=Times Higher Education (THE)|date=26 July 2012|language=en}}</ref> She was educated at Mill Mount Grammar School, an all-girls grammar school in York.<ref name="WW 22" /> She studied at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1979.<ref name="WW 22" /> In 2000, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the University of Cambridge.<ref name="WW 22" />
==Academic career== Zeeman was a junior research fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1984 to 1987. She was elected a fellow of King's College, Cambridge in 1995. Within the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, she was a lecturer (2012–2014), then senior lecturer (2014–2015),<ref name="WW 22" /> before being made Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English in January 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nicky Zeeman appointed as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English|url=https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/medieval/?p=626|website=Medieval Research Group|publisher=Faculty of English, University of Cambridge|accessdate=5 April 2018|date=9 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142743/https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/medieval/?p=626 |archive-date=12 June 2018}}</ref> She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University for the 2014–15 academic year.<ref name="WW 22" />
Zeeman's research is focused on the literature of the later Middle Ages. She studies literature and devotional writings in English, French and Latin, including those of Chaucer and the ''Piers Plowman''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nicolette Zeeman |url=https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/fellows/nicolette-zeeman |website=King's College |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=25 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
==Selected works== * {{cite book |author1-last=Salter |author1-first=Elizabeth |editor1-last=Pearsall |editor1-first=Derek |editor2-last=Zeeman |editor2-first=Nicolette |title=English and international: studies in the literature, art, and patronage of medieval England |date=1988 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521343756}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Dimmick |editor1-first=Jeremy |editor2-last=Simpson |editor2-first=James |editor3-last=Zeeman |editor3-first=Nicolette |title=Images, idolatry, and iconoclasm in late medieval England: textuality and the visual image |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0198187592}} * {{cite book |last1=Zeeman |first1=Nicolette |title=Piers Plowman and the medieval discourse of desire |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521856102}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Ghosh |editor1-first=Kantik |editor2-last=Zeeman |editor2-first=Nicolette |editor3-last=Denery II |editor3-first=Dallas G. |title=Uncertain knowledge: scepticism, relativism, and doubt in the middle ages |date=2014 |publisher=Brepols Publishers |location=Turnhout |isbn=978-2503547763}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Massing |editor1-first=Jean Michel |editor2-last=Zeeman |editor2-first=Nicolette |title=King's College Chapel 1515-2015: Art, Music and Religion in Cambridge |date=2014 |publisher=Harvey Miller Publishers |location=Turnhout |isbn=978-1-909400214}} * {{cite book |last1=Zeeman |first1=Nicolette |title=The Arts of Disruption: Allegory and Piers Plowman |date=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0198860242}}
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