Dr Anne Wright, CBE

Career: lectr in English Lancaster Univ 1969-71, lectr rising to reader in modern English studies Hatfield Poly 1971-84, registrar for Arts and Humanities CNAA 1984-86, dep rector (academic) Liverpool Poly 1986-90, vice-chllr Univ of Sunderland (formerly Sunderland Poly) 1990-98, chief exec Univ for Industry 1998-2001, educnl conslt 2001-; chm: Sunderland Common Purpose 1990-97, Cmmn on Univ Career Opportunity 1993-98, Nat Lottery Cmmn 2005-, Sch Teachers' Review Body 2008-11, Youth Music Theatre 2009-11; dir: The Wearside Opportunity 1991-93, Northern Sinfonia 1991-96, Northern Arts Bd 1991-95, Higher Educn Quality Cncl 1992-97, Wearside TEC 1993-98, Open Learning Fndn 1993-95; memb: Further Educn Funding Cncl 1992-96, Hong Kong Univ and Poly Grants Ctee 1992-2003, Cncl for Industry and HE 1994-99, NE C of C Cncl 1995-98, CBI Regnl Cncl 1996-98, Equal Opportunities Cmmn 1997-98, Armed Forces Pay Review Body 2002-, Bar Standards Bd 2012-; DL (Co of Tyne & Wear) 1997-2001; FRSA 1991, CCMI 1999- (CIMgt 1994, memb Bd of Companions)

Books and Publications: Literature of Crisis 1910-1922, Harley Granville Barker (critical biography in Modern British Dramatists 1900-1945, 1982), Tom Stoppard (critical biography in Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1982), Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (1984); various publications on Shaw, Lawrence, T S Eliot and others