Joanne Wilkes
New Zealand professor of English literature
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Joanne Claire Wilkes is a New Zealand professor of English literature.
Born1956 (age 69–70)
AlmamaterUniversity of Oxford
Joanne Claire Wilkes | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1956 (age 69–70) |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | The treatment of the recent past in nineteenth-century fiction, with particular reference to George Eliot (1984) |
Academic career
Wilkes did an undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney and a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 1984.[1] She then taught at Monash University in Melbourne and then the University of Auckland.[2] She became a professor in 2013.[3] She specialises in women writers whose recognition has faded.[4]
Selected works
- Lord Byron and Madame de Staël born for opposition
- Women reviewing women in nineteenth-century Britain the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
- The works of Elizabeth Gaskell
