Professor Helen Carr

Helen focusses on American literature and poetry, women's writing and feminist and postcolonial theory.

Staff details

Professor Helen Carr

Position

Emeritus Professor of English

Department

English and Creative Writing

Email

english (@gold.ac.uk)

BA (Bristol); MA & PhD (Essex)

Publications and research outputs

Book

Carr, Helen. 2011. Jean Rhys (Writers & Their Work). Northcote House Publishers Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition. ISBN 978-0746311639

Carr, Helen. 2009. The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and the Imagists. London: Jonathan Cape; New Ed edition. ISBN 978-0224040303

Carr, Helen. 2007. A history of women's writing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521852555

Book Section

Carr, Helen. 2007. A history of women's writing. In: G. Plain and S. Sellers, eds. A History of Feminist Literary Criticism. Cambridge University Press, pp. 120-137. ISBN 9780521852555

Carr, Helen. 2006. T. E. Hulme and the `Spiritual Dread of Space'. In: Comentale and A. Gasiorek, eds. T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism. Ashgate, pp. 93-112. ISBN 0754640884

Carr, Helen. 2003. Jean Rhys: West Indian intellectual. In: Bill Schwarz, ed. West Indian intellectuals in Britain. Manchester University Press, pp. 93-113. ISBN 9780719064746

Research Interests

American literature, particularly American poetry, women's writing, feminist and postcolonial theory, and the relation between literature and anthropology.

Helen is a co-editor of the journal Women: A Cultural Review.