Professor Emerita Sally Alexander
Staff details
Founding editor of History Workshop Journal, (HWJ); co-ed issues 71, 72, 2011 with Alun Howkins. Member of the advisory of The Raphael Samuel Centre at Birkbeck, QMUL and UEL; Advisory of Psychoanalysis and History.
Academic qualifications
- Diploma in History - Ruskin College, Oxford
- BA History - University College, London
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Research Interests
Professor Sally Alexander is working on the history of psychoanalysis in Britain, the history of feminism and social movements; memory and subjectivity are longstanding interests. Prof Alexander part of an international research group based at the European University, 'Quest for Welfare and Democracy'.
Publications and research outputs
Edited Book
Alexander, Sally A. and Taylor, Barbara, eds. 2013. History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230113855
Edited Journal
Alexander, Sally A. and Howkins, Alun, eds. 2011. History’s Value?, History Workshop Journal, 72(1). 1477-4569
Alexander, Sally A. and Howkins, Alun, eds. 2011. Digital Sources, Access and ‘History of a Nation’?, History Workshop Journal, 71(1). 1477-4569
Book Section
Alexander, Sally A.. 2016. D. W. Winnicott and the Social Democratic Vision. In: Matt ffytche and Daniel Pick, eds. Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9781138793897
Alexander, Sally A.. 2010. ‘Memory-talk: 20thc century London Childhoods’. In: Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwartz, eds. Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0823232604
Article
Alexander, Sally A.. 2015. The Fantasy of Feminist History, by Joan Wallach Scott (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011; 200pp); reviewed by Sally Alexander ‘… BUT NO MORE ROMANCE …’. Psychoanalysis and History, 17(1), pp. 132-138. ISSN 1460-8235
Alexander, Sally A.. 2014. Generational memory and 20th-century lives. Families, Relationships and Societies, 3(3), 491-494(4). ISSN 2046-7435
Alexander, Sally A.. 2010. Desert Island Texts? Sally Alexander on Margaret Drabble's The Garrick Year. Women: A Cultural Review, 21(1), pp. 10-74. ISSN 0957-4042
Alexander, Sally A.. 2009. ‘"Do Grandmas have husbands?" Generational Memories’. Oral History Review, 36(2), pp. 159-176. ISSN 0094-0798
Alexander, Sally A.. 2007. The Witch and the Child: Women's Historical Writing and the Unconscious. Women a Cultural Review, 18(3), pp. 327-344. ISSN 14701367
Alexander, Sally A.. 2007. A New Civilisation? London Surveyed 1928-40. History Workshop Journal, 64(1), pp. 297-320. ISSN 13633554
Alexander, Sally A.. 2007. Eleanor Marx's Political Legacy - self sacrifice or self-realisation? Women s History Review, 16(4), pp. 595-616. ISSN 09612025
Conference or Workshop Item
Alexander, Sally A.. 2003. 'War of Nerves: Women and the New Age'. In: Inaugural Lecture. UNDEFINED 3/1/2003.
