Sally Mapstone
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Professor Sally Mapstone by John Cairns
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Principal of the University of St Andrews |
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Assumed office September 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Louise Richardson |
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| Born | 1957 |
| Spouse(s) | Martin Griffiths |
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Wadham College, Oxford St Cross College, Oxford |
| Profession | Academic |
| Website | st-andrews.ac.uk/about/governance/principals-office/principal/ |
Sally Mapstone (born 1957) is an academic and Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of St Andrews.
Sally Mapstone grew up in West London and read English Language and Literature at Wadham between 1975 and 1978. She gained her DPhil on the advice to princes tradition, in Older Scots literature, from Oxford in 1986.
After graduating with first-class honours from Wadham in 1978, Mapstone became an Editor with Weidenfeld and Nicolson Publishers, London, and was Mother of the Chapel of the National Union of Journalists at Weidenfeld.
In 1984 she was appointed Lecturer in Medieval English Language and Literature, Worcester College, Oxford and Randall MacIver Junior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
At St Hilda’s she was Lecturer in Medieval English Language and Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Language and Literature, and Joanna Morse Memorial Fellow.
In 2006 she became Reader in Older Scots Literature in the University and was made Professor of Older Scots Literature in 2013. In 2006-7 she served as Junior Proctor of the University.
She was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Personnel and Equality) at Oxford in 2009, and in 2011 became Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) with responsibility for Oxford’s strategy and policies for teaching, learning, student support and admissions.
On 1 September 2016 Mapstone took up her position as the 11th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, and was formally installed in post on 29 November 2016.
Mapstone’s research is primarily on Older Scots literature, of the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries (including literature in Latin) and on book history. She has also published on Chaucer and on Malory; and on Shakespeare. A number of her publications concern the identification of previously unrecognised textual witnesses to Older Scots texts. She also publishes on later Scottish writers.
Mapstone is Past President and Honorary President of the Scottish Text Society, a member of the Advisory Board of Studies in Scottish Literature, a member of the Editorial Board of Scottish Studies Review (to 2009) and an Honorary Fellow of the Project for the History of the Book in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh. She was elected a Fellow of English Association in 2013.
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