Joanne Wilkes

Joanne Claire Wilkes
Born	1956 Sydney
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.

Academic career

Wilkes did an undergraduate at University of Sydney and a PhD at University of Oxford, before teaching at Monash University in Melbourne and then the University of Auckland. She became a professor in 2013. She specialises in women writers whose recognition has faded.

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

External links

• Institutional homepage