Barbara Taylor | |
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Born | Canada | 11 April 1950
Other names | Barbara G. Taylor |
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Alma mater | |
Thesis | The Feminist Theory and Practice of the Owenite Socialist Movement in Britain, 1820–45 (1980) |
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Discipline | History |
Institutions |
Barbara G. Taylor FRHistS (born 1950) is a Canadian-born historian based in the United Kingdom,specialising in the Enlightenment,gender studies and the history of subjectivity. She is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary,University of London. [1]
She was born and raised in Western Canada. In 1971,she was awarded her first degree in political thought from the University of Saskatchewan. She then moved to London,where she gained an MSc in the same subject at the London School of Economics,followed by a PhD in history at the University of Sussex. She taught history at the University of East London from 1993 until 2012 and then moved to Queen Mary,University of London,as joint professor of the schools of English &Drama,and History. [2]
She has received research grants and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust,the Nuffield Foundation,the Guggenheim Foundation (1996),the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council,and the Wellcome Trust. [2]
Taylor has written a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft,the early English feminist and republican, [3] [4] and continues to speak on her life. She spoke about her in 2009 at Newington Green Unitarian Church as part of the 250th anniversary of Wollstonecraft's birth. [5] [6]
With the psychologist Adam Phillips,Taylor is the co-author of On Kindness (2009). [7] [8] [9] Taylor's memoir The Last Asylum:A Memoir of Madness in Our Times,describing her years at Friern Hospital,was published in 2014. [10] [11] [12] [13] It was a finalist for the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize. [14]
E. Ann Matter is former Associate Dean for Arts &Letters and Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in Medieval Christianity,including mysticism,women and religion,sexuality and religion,manuscript and textual studies,biblical interpretation and sacred music.
Joyce Dyer is a U.S. writer of nonfiction. Her memoir Goosetown:Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood tells the story of the author's attempt to remember the first five years of her life growing up in an ethnic neighborhood in Akron called Old Wolf Ledge,famous for its glacial formations,breweries,and cereal mills. Goosetown is the prequel to Gum-Dipped:A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town,her book about the decades when Akron was the Rubber Capital of the World. In it Dyer provides a loving but complicated portrait of her father and a view of the relationship between the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company,its employees,and the city of Akron,Ohio. An earlier memoir,In a Tangled Wood:An Alzheimer's Journey,was published by Southern Methodist University Press in 1996,shortly after the death of Annabelle Coyne,the author's mother. Dyer has also edited two collections of essays,Bloodroot:Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers and From Curlers to Chainsaws:Women and Their Machines. Her first book,The Awakening:A Novel of Beginnings,was a scholarly study of Kate Chopin,a turn-of-the-century American writer. Joyce Dyer is Professor Emerita of English at Hiram College,where she directed the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature and held the John S. Kenyon Chair in English for several years. Recipient of the 1998 Appalachian Book of the Year Award,the 2009 David B. Saunders Award in Creative Nonfiction,the 2016 Independent Book Publisher Gold Medal Award for anthology,and Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards,Dyer spent the last ten years working on a book about abolitionist John Brown,who grew up in Hudson,Ohio,where the author lives. A mix of memoir,biography,public history,and travel writing,Pursuing John Brown:On the Trail of a Radical Abolitionist was published by the University of Akron Press in May of 2022. In this book for general readers,Dyer reveals surprising details about John Brown’s life and grapples with troubling questions he raises. The book has been called "a thoughtful,elegantly written contribution to American studies" by Kirkus Reviews and awarded honorable mention by Civil War Monitor in their list of Best Civil War Books of 2022. Indiana Magazine of History said Dyer worked "in a wholly creative,compulsively readable,fiercely original,and deeply contemplative way" and concluded,"This is a phenomenal book." And the Journal of Southern History said,"Dyer provides a narrative of intellectual and ethical reflections and growth.. . Further,in a climate that prioritizes the alleviation of supposed white discomfort over the instruction of history,this work will have particular personal value to educators." Dyer's biography is included in Contemporary Authors,volume 146,and in the New Revision Series,volume 91.
Marnie Hughes-Warrington is an Australian academic who currently serves as professor of history at the University of South Australia,where she has also served since 2020 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor. She previously worked at the Australian National University. Her areas of expertise are the philosophy of history,historiography,and world history.
Shannon Sullivan is chair and Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She teaches and writes on feminist philosophy,critical philosophy of race,American pragmatism,and continental philosophy.
Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic,activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy.
Maxine Leeds Craig is a professor in the sociology department at the University of California,Davis (USA).
Gloria Lund Main is an American economic historian who is a professor emeritus of history at University of Colorado Boulder. She authored two books about the Thirteen Colonies.
Matthew T. Kapstein is a scholar of Tibetan religions,Buddhism,and the cultural effects of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He is Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School,and Director of Tibetan Studies at the École pratique des hautes études.
Leslie Kanes Weisman is an American architecture educator,activist and community planning department official. Weisman was one of the founding faculty members of the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture in Newark,New Jersey. She was also one of the founders of the Women's School of Planning and Architecture.
Barbara Duden is a German medical historian,scholar of gender studies,and emeritus professor of the University of Hannover. Her work figures significantly in the currents that established the body as a site for historical inquiry. She is one of the founders of the journal Courage,which was in publication from 1976 to 1984. Courage primarily circulated in West Berlin where it played an extensive role in informing the women's movement at the time. Her father is also the great-grandson of the German philologist Konrad Duden.
Suzi Gablik was an American visual artist,author,art critic,and professor of art history and art criticism. She lived in Blacksburg,Virginia.
Kirin Narayan is an Indian-born American anthropologist,folklorist and writer.
Bonnie Costello is an American literary scholar,currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English at Boston University. Her books include works on the poets Marianne Moore,Elizabeth Bishop,and W. H. Auden,and the relation of visual art to poetry through landscape painting and still life.
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California,Santa Barbara. Previously she was an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is trained in literary critique,and does work in Caribbean Studies,Black Diaspora Studies,Gender and Women's Studies,and Pop Culture Studies. She is the author of Thiefing Sugar:Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature,and Ezili′s Mirrors:Imagining Black Queer Genders. She received the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard for the 2018–2019 school year. Her latest work Beyoncéin Formation:Remixing Black Feminism was published in November 2018. It is based on her course at University of Texas Austin entitled BeyoncéFeminism,Rihanna Womanism,which launched in Spring 2015.
Dan Stone is an English historian. He is professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway,University of London,and director of its Holocaust Research Institute. Stone specializes in 20th-century European history,genocide,and fascism. He is the author or editor of several works on Holocaust historiography,including Histories of the Holocaust (2010) and an edited collection,The Historiography of the Holocaust (2004).
Zine Magubane is a scholar whose work focuses broadly on the intersections of gender,sexuality,race,and post-colonial studies in the United States and Southern Africa. She has held professorial positions at various academic institutions in the United States and South Africa and has published several articles and books.
Penny Marie Von Eschen is an American historian and Professor of History and William R. Kenan,Jr. Professor of American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is known for her works on American and African-American history,American diplomacy,the history of music,and their connections with decolonization.
Jacqueline Bobo is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California,Santa Barbara. Bobo has been recognized as an "internationally renowned writer" and black feminist scholar.
Anne Philomena O'Brien is an Australian historian and author who is a professor at the University of New South Wales.
Elisabeth Jane Tooker was an American anthropologist and a leading historian on the Iroquois nations in north-eastern United States.
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