Anim-Addo, Joan, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Dr Joan Anim-Addo

Position held:
Senior Lecturer

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7396

Email:
j.anim-addo (@gold.ac.uk)

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