Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Jenny Bavidge is Associate Professor in English Literature and Academic Director in English Literature for the Institute of Continuing Education and is a Fellow in English at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. Before joining the Institute in 2011, she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich. She was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2015. Her publications have included work on London in literature, children's literature, ecocriticism, and rats.
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.
