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)

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

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, J.; Wilkes, Joanne Claire (1984). 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 (Thesis). University of Oxford.
  2. ↑ "Professor Joanne Wilkes - the University of Auckland". Archived from the original on 26 January 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  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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