Goldsmiths - University of London

Professor Sally Alexander

Academic qualifications

Diploma in History - Ruskin College, Oxford
BA History - University College, London
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

www.historyworkshoponline.org.uk

Teaching

HT71060A 'A New World for Women', 20th Century Feminism and Citizenship

Research interests

My research interests lie in the history of social movements, feminism in particular, London history, the history of psychoanalysis, oral history and subjectivity. I have been an editor of History Workshop Journal since its foundation in 1976. 

I am presently editing issue 72 (autumn 2011; issue 71 (spring 2011) includes essays on family history, African nationalism, Polish migration and a feature on the London economy.

Co-convenor of Modern British History seminar at the IHR, and Psychoanalysis and History at the IHR. I am editing, with Professor Barbara Taylor, a volume on Psychoanalysis and History for Palgrave, 2012.

Research supervision

British Women and German Prisoners of War
Women at the BBC in the 20th century
Childhood in Deptford in the early 20th century
Nova Magazine in the 1970s
Women's Magazines between the Wars
Salvation Army Women at home and abroad in the early 19thC

Selected publications

Editor, with Alun Howkins, History Workshop Journal, issue 71 Spring 2011

'The Garrick Year', Women, a cultural review, Spring 2010.

‘"Do Grandmas have husbands?" Generational Memories’, Oral History Review, Autumn 2009.

‘Memory-talk: 20thc century London Childhoods’, Radstone, Susannah, Schwarz, Bill, eds. Mapping Memories, Fordham Press, 2009.

'A New Civilization? London Surveyed 1928 1940s', History Workshop Journal, 64 (2007), pp. 296-320

'The Witch and the Child: Women's Historical Writing and the Unconscious', Women; a cultural review, Vol. 18., No. 3, pp. 327-344

'Eleanor Marx's legacy: self-sacrifice or self-realisation?, Women's History Review, vol. 16, no. 4, 2007, pp. 595-616

'War of Nerves', inaugural lecture, Goldsmiths College, 2003, pp. 1-27