Janet Wilson
{{short description|British academic (born 1948)}}
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{{Infobox academic
| image = Professor Janet Wilson.jpeg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|11|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = Wellington
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality = New Zealand
| citizenship = {{hlist|New Zealand}}
| alma_mater = Victoria University of Wellington
University of Sydney
St Catherine's College, Oxford
| thesis_title = An edition of Roger Edgeworth's Sermons very fruitfull, godly and learned (from the 1557 edition and Bodl. MS Rawl. D. 831)
| thesis_url = http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=OXVU1&docId=oxfaleph011540429
| thesis_year = 1985
| discipline = English
| work_institution = University of Northampton
| known_for = Research and writing on Postcolonial studies
| website = {{URL |https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/persons/janet-wilson-3}}
| doctoral_advisor=Douglas Gray, JRR Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language, Lady Margaret Hall, OxfordLady Margaret Hall, Oxford
| spouse = Kevin Ireland}}
Janet M. Wilson is a UK-based New Zealand academic who specialises in post colonial New Zealand literature.
Academic career
Janet Mary Wilson is Emerita Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology, University of Northampton{{cite web|url=https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/persons/janet-wilson-3|title=Janet Wilson|accessdate=21 December 2022}} and editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing{{cite web|url=http://www.otago.ac.nz/press/booksauthors/otagoauthors/janetwilson.html|title=Otago University Press|website=otago.ac.nz|accessdate=12 June 2017}} and on the board of the Journal of New Zealand Literature.{{Cite web |url=http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/jnzl/board.shtml |title=JNZL – Editorial Board |access-date=12 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714223516/http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/jnzl/board.shtml |archive-date=14 July 2014 |url-status=dead }}
Previous appointments were held at Birkbeck, University of London, University of Otago, Oxford Brookes University, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, University of Auckland and University of Sydney.
Wilson was elected Vice President of the National Conference of University Professors in 2018 and became President in 2020 until 2022.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncup.org.uk/council-members/|title=Council Members|date=7 January 2016 |publisher=National Conference of University Professors|access-date=2019-06-04}}
Education
Wilson holds an MA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington, an MA in Medieval English from the University of Sydney and a DPhil from St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Professional life
Wilson currently holds a Visiting Professorship at Birmingham City University, is an Academic Visitor at University of Auckland and a Visiting Research Fellow at Rothermere American Institute University of Oxford where she was previously a Senior Research Fellow and an Associate Research Fellow. She was previously a Visiting Fellow at Jamia Millia Islamia University.
Awards and recognition
Wilson was a recipient of an Australian Commonwealth Fellowship at the University of Sydney (1972-1974) and a Violet Vaughan Morgan Studentship at St Catherine's College, Oxford (1980-1981).
Personal life
Wilson was, until his death, married to the New Zealand writer and poet Kevin Ireland.
Bibliography
- Gasston A, Kimber G, Wilson J (Eds.) (2020) Katherine Mansfield: New Directions Bloomsbury, London {{ISBN|9781350135529}}
- Wilson J (Ed.) (2020) The General and the Nightingale: Dan Davin's War Stories Otago University Press, Dunedin {{ISBN|9781988531823}}
- Stierstorfer K, Wilson J (Eds.) (2017) The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader Routledge, London {{ISBN|9781138783201}}
- Tunca D, Wilson J (Eds.) (2016) Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction Brill, Leiden {{ISBN|978-90-04-33767-1}}
- Ringrose C, Wilson J (Eds.) (2016) New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing: Critical and Creative Contours Brill- Rodopi, Leiden & Boston {{ISBN|978-90-04-32641-5}}
- Fresno Calleja P (Translator), Wilson J (Eds.) (2014) Un país de cuento. Veinte relatos de Nueva Zelanda Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza {{ISBN|978-8416028382}}
- Kimber G, da Sousa Correa D, Wilson J (Eds.) (2013) Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh {{ISBN| 9780748669110}}
- Wilson J, Kimber G, Reid S (Eds.) (2011) Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism. London: Continuum Bloomsbury, London {{ISBN| 9781441111302}}
- Kimber G, Wilson J (Eds.) (2011) Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays Palgrave, London {{ISBN|978-0-230-27773-1}}
- Wilson J, Sandru C, Lawson Welsh S (Eds.) (2010) Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium Routledge. London {{ISBN|9780415543255}}
- Wilson J (2008) Fleur Adcock Northcote House and the British Council, Plymouth {{ISBN| 978-0-7463-1035-9}}
- Wilson J (Ed.) (2007) The Gorse Blooms Pale: The Southland Stories of Dan Davin Otago University Press, Dunedin {{ISBN|978-1-877372-42-1}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=123689300 linked-in]
- [http://www.northampton.ac.uk/directories/people/janet-wilson institutional homepage]
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Category:Academics of the University of Oxford
Category:University of Sydney alumni
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford
Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago
Category:Academics of the University of Northampton
Category:Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
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