Melveena Christine McKendrick, FBA (born 23 March 1941) is a retired Welsh academic. She was Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Cambridge from 1999 to 2008, and served as its Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education from January 2004 to October 2008.^[1][2] She has also been a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge since 1967;^[1] she is currently a life fellow having retired from full-time academia in 2008.^[3]

She attended Neath Grammar School for Girls and Dyffryn Grammar School, Port Talbot, before reading for a BA in Spanish at King's College London and a PhD at Girton College, Cambridge, which she received in 1967.^[1]

In 1967, the then Melveena Jones married Neil McKendrick, later Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.^[1] Together they have two daughters.^[1]

In 1999, McKendrick was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[4] In 2013, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt) degree by the University of South Wales "in recognition of her outstanding contribution to literature and the arts".^[5]

• McKendrick, Melveena (1974). Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age: A Study of the Mujer Varonil. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521202947.
• McKendrick, Melveena (1980). Cervantes. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0316560542.
• McKendrick, Melveena (1989). Theatre in Spain 1490-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521355926.
• McKendrick, Melveena (1996). The Revealing Image: stage portraits in the theatre of the Golden Age. London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College. ISBN 978-0904188219.
• McKendrick, Melveena (2000). Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity. Woodbridge: Tamesis. ISBN 978-1855660694.
• McKendrick, Melveena (2002). Identities in Crisis: Essays on Honour, Gender and Women in the Comedia. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger. ISBN 978-3935004527.