Jennifer Ann Moss, was a British scholar of French literature and classical reception, specialising in the French Renaissance.
18 Facts About Ann Moss
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Ann Moss was Professor of French at the University of Durham from 1996 to 2003.
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Ann Moss studied the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959: as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree.
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Ann Moss then began postgraduate studies at Cambridge under the supervision of Ian McFarlane.
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From 1963 to 1964, Ann Moss was an assistant lecturer in the French Department of the University College of North Wales in Bangor: she had to give up this job to care for her two young children.
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Ann Moss was a part-time university lecturer while working at Trevelyan from 1966 to 1979.
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Ann Moss became a full-time lecturer in French at the University of Durham in 1979, and was promoted to senior lecturer in 1985 and to reader in 1988.
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Ann Moss was appointed Professor of French in October 1996, and served as head of the School of Modern European Languages between 2000 and 2003.
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Ann Moss was made Professor Emerita on her retirement 2003, and appointed an honorary research fellow of the now named School of Modern Languages to continue her research and lecturing.
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Ann Moss had an interest in post-Medieval Latin writings, and regualary spoke at the congresses of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies.
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Outside of her university posts, Ann Moss was active in the administration of the British Academy.
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Ann Moss was a member of its Publications Committee from 1999 to 2004 and its council from 2003 to 2006.
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Ann Moss served as chair of its Early Modern Languages and Literatures Section from 2007 to 2010.
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Ann Moss was additionally an active member of the Church of England.
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Ann Moss trained as a lay minister in retirement, serving as a reader from 2005 to 2010.
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Ann Moss was first assigned to St Oswald's Church, Durham and then to St Paul's Church, Spennymoor.
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Ann Moss died on 13 August 2018 in Morden College, Blackheath, London, aged 80.
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In 1998, Ann Moss was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.