BA (Manchester), MA (Hertfordshire), PhD (Cantab), Cert.Ed (Cantab), Advanced Dip. Ed (Cantab), Diploma in Film Studies (London)

Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing; Admissions Tutor, English

Office Hours: Monday 2.00 - 3.00pm, Thursday 11.00am - 1.00pm

Room: Hel 160

Email: Mary.Joannou@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2049
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2049


Professor Mary Joannou's research activity page

Mary Joannou is module leader for the following modules: Women's Writing, Gender and Sexuality, After the Deluge: Writing, Film, Culture and Society after 1945, Imperial and Postcolonial Writing, and Writing Nations: Representations of Wales, Scotland and Irealnd. She teaches on the MA English Literature and the MA in Film and is Admissions Tutor for English.

Her research interests are the women's suffrage movement, the 1930s, and late Victorian and early twentieth-century writing. Her first monograph, "Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows: Women's Writing, Feminism and Social Change 1918-1938," was on the Choice (USA) list of outstanding academic books for 1995. Her second, Contemporary Women's Writing: From the Golden Notebook to the Color Purple, was completed with AHRB funding in 2000. Her third monograph will be on women's writing and Englishness 1938-1960. She has published one edited essay collection on Women writers of the 1930s, two co-edited volumes, one on the women's suffrage movement with June Purvis and another dedicated to the scholar Margot Heinemann with David Margolies, a critical edition of Ellen Wilkinson's 'Clash,' numerous book reviews, and some numerous influential essays. She has been a guest editor for special editions on the 1930s for the journals Literature and History, and Critical Survey and on contemporary women's writing for 'Women: a Cultural Review.' She is the joint organiser of the University's Research Seminar for the School of Arts, Law and Social Sciences.

Mary Joannou is on the steering committee of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network and on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Women's Writing. Until recently she was Convenor of the Women's History Network. She was the Fleur Cowles Research Fellow at the Harry Ransom Centre in the University of Texas at Austin (2000-2001) and is a Fellow of the English Association. She has organised conferences on the literature of the 1930s (1997 and 2000).


She would welcome research students in the following areas:

• The literature and history of the women's suffrage movement
• Working-class writing, autobiographical writing, and the literature of labour
• Late Victorian and early twentieth-century women's writing
• The literature and history of the 1930s

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