Joanne Wilkes

Joanne Claire Wilkes is a New Zealand professor of English literature.

Academic career
Wilkes did an undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney and a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 1984. She then taught at Monash University in Melbourne and then the University of Auckland. She became a professor in 2013. She specialises in women writers whose recognition has faded.

Selected works

 * Lord Byron and Madame de Staël born for opposition
 * Women reviewing women in nineteenth-century Britain the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
 * The works of Elizabeth Gaskell