Staff Profile
Emerita Professor Linda Anderson
Professor of Modern English and American Literature
Research
Research Interests
My research interests are in autobiography, modern and contemporary poetry, particularly the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, the theory and use of archives, particularly in relation to poetry, the relation between the critical, creative and digital.
Publications
- Anderson L. Elizabeth Bishop: Lines of Connection. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
- Anderson L. Dubious Topography in Elizabeth Bishop's 'The End of March'. Royal Society of Literature Review 2012, 41-43.
- Anderson LR. Autobiography. London: Routledge, 2011.
- Anderson L. Autobiography and Exile: Edward Said's Out of Place. In: Ghosh, R, ed. Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World. New York: Routledge, 2009, pp.165-175.
- Anderson L. Gender, Feminism, Poetry: Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, Jo Shapcott. In: Corcoran, N, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Anderson L, ed. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery. Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2002.
- Anderson L. The New Critical Idiom : Autobiography. London, UK: Routledge, 2001.
- Anderson L. Autobiography and personal criticism. In: Plain, G; Sellers, S, ed. A History of Feminist Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp.138-153.
- Anderson L. Autobiography and the feminist subject. In: Rooney, E, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.119-135.
- Anderson L. Elizabeth Bishop:The Story of the Eye. In: Anderson, L., Shapcott, J, ed. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery. Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2002, pp.159-174.
- Anderson L. Autobiographical Travesties: the nostalgic self in queer writing. In: Alderson, D., Anderson, L, ed. Territories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring Contemporary Boundaries. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000, pp.68-81.
- Anderson LR, Alderson D, ed. Territories of desire in queer culture: Refiguring contemporary boundaries. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.
- Anderson L. Autobiography. In: Dictionary of Feminist Theory. Routledge, 1999.
- Anderson L. Autobiography. In: Tierney, H, ed. Women's Studies Encyclopedia. London, UK: Aldwych Press, 1999.
- Anderson L. "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" or Learning to Dance with the Bard: Angela Carter's Wise Children. In: Batchelor, J. Cain, T.G., Lamont, C, ed. Shakespearean Continuities: Essays in Honor of E.A.J. Honigman. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan Press, 1997, pp.361-371.
- Anderson L. Remembered Futures: Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century. London, UK: Prentice Hall, 1997.
- Broughton T, Anderson L, ed. Women's Lives/Women's Times. Albany, USA: State University of New York Press, 1997.
- Anderson L, ed. Alice James: Her Life in Letters. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 1996.
- Anderson L. A Politics of Location: The Contemporary Short Story. Stand 1995, 37, 62-65.
- Anderson L. Elizabeth Bishop: The Secret Life of a Poet. In: Batchelor, J, ed. The Art of Literary Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp.173-183.
- Anderson L. Poetry. In: Flambard Poets 2. Newcastle upon Tyne: Flambard Press, 1995.
- Anderson L. Haunting the Margins of History: Toni Morrison's Beloved. In: Davis, J., Wollaston, I, ed. The Sociology of Sacred Texts. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield University Press, 1993, pp.156-162.
- Anderson L, ed. Plotting Change: Contemporary Women's Fiction. London, UK: Edward Arnold, 1990.
- Anderson L. The Re-Imagining of History in Contemporary Women's Fiction. In: Anderson, L, ed. Plotting Change: Contemporary Women's Fiction. London, UK: Edward Arnold, 1990, pp.129-141.
- Anderson L. Questions of Feminist Criticism. Prose Studies 1987, 10(2), 225-230.
- Anderson L. At the Threshold of the Self: Women and Autobiography, 54 - 71. In: Monteith, M, ed. Women's Writing: The Challenge to Theory. Brighton, UK: Harvester Press, 1986.
- Anderson L. Bennett, Wells and Conrad: Narrative in Transition. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1986.
- Anderson L. Hearing You in My Own Voice: Woman as Listener and Reader. In: McGregor, G., White, R.S, ed. The Arts of Listening. London, UK: Croom Helm, 1986, pp.73-86.
- Anderson L. Mapping the Self: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich. Writing Women 1982, 2, 49-59.
- Anderson L. Self and Society in H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay. Modern Fiction Studies 1980, 199-212.
- Anderson L. Ideas of Freedom and Identity in V. S. Naipaul and Joseph Conrad. English Studies 1978, 59(6), 510-517.
- Anderson L. Greenhouse. Edinburgh: Mariscat Press, 2013.
- Anderson L, Byers M, Warner A, ed. The Contemporary Poetry Archive: Essays and Interventions. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- Anderson Linda. 'Deconstruction'; 'Postmodernism'. In: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, ed. Handbook of Autobiography/Autofiction. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. Submitted.
- Anderson L. Making and Making Do: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. In: Spencer E, ed. American Poetry Since 1945. London: Palgrave, 2016, pp.55-70.
- Anderson L. Life Lines: Auto/biography and Memoir. In: Mary Eagleton and Emma Parker, ed. The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp.182-192.
- Warner A, Anderson L, Bryce C, ed. Poetics of the Archive. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts/AHRC, 2015.
- Anderson L. The Station Before. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. In Press.
- Anderson L. Disturbances of the Archive: Repetition and Memory in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry. In: Ellis J, ed. Reading Elizabeth Bishop: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- Anderson L. Opening the Box: Exploring the Bloodaxe Archive'. In: Linda Anderson, Mark Byers and Ahren Warner, ed. The Contemporary Poetry Archive: Essays and Interventions. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. In Preparation.
- Anderson L. 3 Poems. Blackbox Manifold 2018. Blackbox, 20.
- Brown I, Turnbull A, Anderson L, Warner A, Schofield T, Sweeney K, Bryce C. Poetics of the Archive: Creative Community Engagement with the Bloodaxe Archive. 2015. Newcastle University: ExLibris Gallery, 1.
- Anderson L. The Poetics of the Archive. 2015. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts/Bloodaxe Books.