Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
Please go to students and applicants to login
Jenny Bavidge is University Senior Lecturer and Academic Director for English at ICE and is a member of the English Faculty. She is a Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Jenny took her BA in English Literature and Language at Worcester College, Oxford and then an MA at Royal Holloway, University of London. She stayed at Royal Holloway to write a PhD on representations of urban space in the contemporary novel which she completed in 2001. She then took up a Lectureship in English at the University of Greenwich, where she stayed, becoming Senior Lecturer, until she joined ICE in 2011. She is President of the Literary London Society and sits on the committee of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.
Jenny’s approach to teaching is always to begin with close reading and to encourage students to develop and understand their own responses to the literature they encounter. Classes then aim to include a wide variety of critical, theoretical and contextual material to broaden potential approaches to literary study.
Jenny is particularly interested in writing about London and other cities, cultural geography, children’s literature and childhood studies, ecocriticism and urban nature, and theories of place and space. She is currently planning a book on the child and the city.
Jenny teaches within a wide range of areas, including 19th and 20th-century American and British literature, close reading and critical theory, and has also taught on film.
