Julia Boffey: key obituary facts
Is Julia Boffey dead? Yes. Julia Boffey died on September 11, 2026, at age 73.
Cause of death: Julia Boffey's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Julia Boffey known for?
She was an English academic.
More about Julia Boffey
Born: 1 January 1950.
Gender: female.
Occupation: historian, professor, medievalist, literary scholar.
Education: Newnham College.
Julia Boffey, an English academic and professor of medieval studies, died on September 11, 2026, aged 73.
A medievalist and literary scholar, she taught at Queen Mary University of London and studied as an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge. She later completed a D.Phil.
thesis on medieval verse manuscripts at the Centre for Medieval Studies at York. Boffey wrote on late medieval English literature and book history, including Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages (1985) and Manuscript and Print in London c.1475-1530 (2012), and she edited Fifteenth-century English Dream Visions: an Anthology (2003).