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Humanities
Dr Jane DowsonDepartment of English and Creative WritingSubject Leader Contact Details:
Dr Jane Dowson is a Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature within the Department of English. Her recent and current undergraduate teaching includes:
She has recently supervised MA dissertations on Rebecca West and contemporary British Asian fiction and PH.D theses on twentieth-century Anglo-American Women’s Poetry; poetry from Bosnia and Herzegovina and narratives of trauma and healing. Pastoral and administrative duties include Programme Year Tutor for year two English students. Her research interests include women's poetry, contemporary poetry, postcolonialism, women’s writing, modernism and the 1930s. Publications She is currently editing The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women’s Poetry. It follows on from A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2005), co-authored with Alice Entwistle. Previous publications include: a chapter in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol 1: Britain and Ireland 1880-1945, ed. Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker, Oxford University Press, 2009, titled ‘Time and Tide (1920-76) and The Bermondsey Book (1923-30): Interventions in the public sphere.’ (http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/exist/mod_mag/index.htm) and Women, Modernism and British Poetry 1910-39 (Ashgate, 2002). She can be contacted for copies of her Selected Poems of Frances Cornford (Enitharmon Press, 1996) Jane Dowson was on the inaugural steering group of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network (http://www.cwwn.org.uk/) and is on the editorial board for the network’s journal, published by Oxford University Press (http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/). She is also a member of the Postcolonial Studies Association. Research students are invited on aspects of twentieth-century and contemporary poetry, postcolonial and women's writing.
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