Dr Justine Baillie
Senior Lecturer in English
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 8331 8957
Email: j.j.baillie@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 235
Office Hours 2009-10
Tuesday 11-12noon
Wednesday 2-3pm (Term 1 only)
Qualifications
BA, PHD (London)
Research
Dr. Justine Baillie’s primary research interests are in critical theory, postcolonial literature and women’s writing. Dr. Baillie has published on African-American women’s writing and is currently working on a critical study of Toni Morrison’s fiction. She is also the coauthor of Beginning Gender for Manchester University Press. Dr. Baillie coordinates the English Department’s first year core course Literature Culture and Criticism as well as the first year option Reading Key Texts. She also teaches the second and third year options American Fictions and Postcolonial Literatures.
Dr Baillie is also American Study Abroad Programme Leader.
Journal articles
'Contesting Ideologies: Deconstructing Racism in African-American Fiction' in Women: A Cultural Review Volume 14 (1) Spring 2003
“Dread and Love”: Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark as Postcolonial text` in UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies Volume 1 (1) 2007
'Interview with Bharati Mukherjee' Journal of Comparative American Studies, Sage
Conference papers
'Two Ways to be and American; Immigrant Identity in the Work of Bharati' American Modernities, Goldsmith's College December 2003