Joanne Wilkes

Joanne Claire Wilkes is a New Zealand professor of English literature.

Joanne Claire Wilkes
Born1956
Sydney
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Scientific career
ThesisThe 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

References
  1. "Wilkes, Joanne Claire., (1984). The treatment of the recent past in nineteenth-century fiction, with particular reference to George Eliot. DPhil. University of Oxford". Oxford Research Archive. University of Oxford.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 January 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Inaugural Lecture: The politics of Lord Byron and Alfred de Musset". University of Auckland. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  4. "U of A professor thrives on new ideas". East and Bays Courier. 22 February 2013.


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