Jackie Labbe is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at De Montfort University. She is responsible for teaching and learning, developing the education strategy and working with academics across the University.
Her discipline is British Literature and she specialises in the writing of the late eighteenth century: the British Romantic Period. After working for some time on the poetry of William Wordsworth and Charlotte Smith, Jackie is currently researching how Jane Austen interacted with Smith (a leading writer of the period) in developing psychological depth and narrative nuance in the novel.