Joanne Wilkes

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Joanne Claire Wilkes
Born1956
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)

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

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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]

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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.