Betty Jay

Betty Jay

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I joined the department in 1995; before that I was Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester, and associate lecturer at Cardiff University. I studied for my first degree at the University of Southampton and was awarded a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Language in 1989. Subsequent to this I was granted a Marion Johnson Fellowship and spent the next year at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA. My doctoral research was undertaken at Birkbeck College, University of London, and I completed my thesis on William Golding in 1995. My current teaching focuses on feminist and psychoanalytic theory along with twentieth-century and contemporary literature. I have worked in a supervisory capacity with PhD students working on Janet Frame, the Robinsonnade, Carson McCullers, Wilfred Owen and Virginia Woolf.

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I am currently Senior Tutor. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

  • Woolf, feminism, film, modernism, contemporary writing, women's writing, post-colonialism, Carter, Bildungsroman, Salinger, masculinity, war, great war, first world war, Toni Morrison, Janet Frame, Antonia White, gender studies