Penny Boumelha

Penny Boumelha
Penny Boumelha
Awards	Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Academic background
Thesis	Female sexuality, marriage and divorce in the fiction of Thomas Hardy, with special reference to the period 1887–1896 (1981); ;
Doctoral advisor	Mary Jacobus
Academic work
Institutions	Victoria University of Wellington

Penelope Ann Boumelha FAHA is an English literature academic, and emeritus professor at Victoria University of Wellington. She was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Adelaide and at Victoria University of Wellington. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1997.