16 Facts About Heather Ingman

Heather Elizabeth Ingman was born on 26 December 1953 and is a British academic, noted for her work on Irish and British women's writing, the Irish short story, gender studies and modernism.

Also a novelist and journalist, Ingman has worked in Ireland and the UK, especially at Trinity College Dublin, where she is an Adjunct Professor of English and Research Fellow in Gender Studies.

Heather Ingman was born and brought up in Stockton-on-Tees, a market town in County Durham in the north of England, one of two daughters of David and Elizabeth Heather Ingman.

Heather Ingman's father was executive chairman of the British Waterways Board from 1987 to 1993; he led the drive for new legislation to allow the Board to extend its activities, opened one of the Board's first major commercial developments, at Limehouse, and was awarded a CBE in 1993.

Heather Ingman attended Teesside High School, completing school in 1972, then studied at Bedford College of the University of London, graduating in 1977 with a BA in French and English from the university.

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Heather Ingman first taught in the School of French at Trinity College Dublin from the early 1980s for ten years.

Heather Ingman moved back to the UK for her second PhD, and took up a post at the University of Hull, as Lecturer in English, specialising in Women's Studies, for eight years.

Heather Ingman secured her PhD from Loughborough University, on women's inter-war fiction, in 1996.

Heather Ingman returned, after about ten years, to Dublin, to work at the Department of English at Trinity College, in time becoming an Adjunct Professor.

Heather Ingman later took up a post at the Centre for Women's Studies within TCD; she is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at what is the Centre for Gender and Womens Studies.

Heather Ingman speaks regularly at conferences, has been interviewed on radio, and supervises and has acted as external examiner for PhD candidates in at least five universities in the UK, Ireland and the USA.

Heather Ingman is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Heather Ingman published her first novel in 1987, then returned to the form in 1994, publishing six books in under five years.

Heather Ingman wrote a number of "Englishwoman's Diary" columns for the Irish Times in the early 2000s, and then and later wrote literary articles and reviews for the paper.

Heather Ingman is married to Ferdinand von Prondzynski, second President of Dublin City University and then Principal of Robert Gordon University.

Heather Ingman and von Prondzynski have two sons, the elder was born on 1989 and adopted from Educador, the younger born in 1991 in the United Kingdom, educated at the University of Buckingham and now working as a copywriter for the Conservative Party.