Dr Joan Anim-Addo
16 Laurie Grove
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
Office hours:
Thurs 4.00-5.00
Fri 12.00-1.00
B.Ed (Hons), MA, PhD. Appointed Goldsmiths, Caribbean Studies Centre, 1994.
Teaching
I am currently the convenor of two undergraduate Options: Caribbean Women’s Writing and Creating the Text.
Areas of supervision
- Caribbean Women’s Writing
- Black Women’s Writing
- Creole Literary Issues
Research interests
My research interests include Caribbean women’s writing / silenced
knowledge and black women’s lives, historical approaches to Caribbean
literature, decolonising theory and modernism in colonial and
decolonising contexts. I am also actively involved in European feminist
research networks such as Networking Women and ATHENA.
Current research projects:
- Caribbean/ Scotland Inter-connections
- Women, Autobiography and the Black Body in Europe.
Selected publications
- Touching the Body: Dynamics of Language, History and Publication (London: Mango Publishing, 2006).
- Janie, Cricketing Lady (Poetry), (London: Mango Publishing, 2006).
- ‘Pan-Africanist Women, Modernity, Silence: Amy Ashwood Garvey, and Other Invisible Activists’, in Covi, Giovanna (ed.), Modernist Women, Race, Nation: Networking Women, 1890-1950, Circum-Atlantic Connections (London: Mango Publishing, 2006), 96-117.
- “Sister Goose’s Sisters: African-Caribbean Women’s Nineteenth-Century Testimony,” Women, a Cultural Review, 15:1, Spring 2004: 25-56)
- Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name – A Play for Twelve Voices in Three Acts in Covi, Giovanna (ed.), Voci femminili caraibiche e interculturalità, (Trento, Italy: I Labirinti, Pubblicazioni Università di Trento, 2003: Appendix, 1-155).
- Centre of Remembrance: Memory and Caribbean Women’s Literature (ed.), with an introduction & chapter, ‘Long-memoried Meanings: Underpinnings of African-Caribbean Women’s Writing’, London: Mango Publishing, 2002.
Professional activities
- Member of the Caribbean and African Studies Research Association (CAFSRA)
- Founder-Editor of Mango Season, the Journal of Caribbean Women’s Writing