Key details
Dr Justine Baillie
Associate Professor of LIterature
Upon completion of her PhD in literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, Dr Justine Baillie took up her post at the University of Greenwich. She has had responsibility for study abroad programmes across the university and has recently initiated an undergraduate student exchange programme with Tsuru University in Japan. Dr Baillie has led modules at all levels on English degree programmes and was Programme Leader for the MA inEnglish for four years. She continues to supervise MA dissertation students and contribute to core courses. Dr. Baillie supervises PhD students in gender and diaspora studies, American literature, African-American and postcolonial writing. As well as supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students working in her research areas, Dr Baillie leads research informed BA modules on short stories, American fiction, decolonization and literature.
Responsibilities within the university
- Module Leader of first-year module, Case Studies in Short Fiction
- Module Leader of second-year module American Fiction
- Module Leader of third-year module Decolonization and Literature Supervise third-year and MA students undertaking dissertations in American and English literature.
- Supervise doctoral students
- Conduct research in the fields of American literature, postcolonial writing, gender, modernism and literary theory.
Awards
- 2022 Student Led Teaching Awards: Faculty Supervisor of the Year Award
- 2018 Student Led Teaching Awards: Faculty Inspirational Teaching Award
- 2015 Toni Morrison Society nomination for single-authored monograph award
- 2014 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 for Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic (London: Bloomsbury)
- 2006 The Literature of London Project, Ohio State University students
- 2000 Goldsmiths Bursary for PhD: Teaching and Research
Recognition
Dr Baillie is currently External Examiner for the MRes in Film at the University of Portsmouth. She has acted as External Examiner at FCOT (Farnborough College of Technology), University of Surrey, and advised on FCOT's validation of English degree programmes in 2024. Between 2016 and 2020 she was External Examiner at Regent's University, London. Dr Baillie is an Associate Editor, Oxford University Press, having guest edited a special issue of Contemporary Women’s Writing. In 2015Dr Baillie was a Visiting Professor in Women’s Writing, English Department, Université Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Dennis. She is a member of SEM (French Society for Modernist Studies).
Research / Scholarly interests
Dr Baillie's primary research interests are in critical theory, diasporic, postcolonial and transnational literatures, American and African-American writing, urban studies, women's writing. She has published on American and African-American writing, post-colonial theory and the international novel, has completed a monograph, Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition (London: Bloomsbury 2013) and is author of Transnational Paris.
Key funded projects
2020 Awarded a 250.00 Euro research grant by University of Huelva, Spain to support, 'Toni Morrison's Female Epistemology', a Keynote presentation delivered at University of Huelva, 2020.
2015Awarded £5,000 and research sabbatical to support book proposal, Transnational Paris. The book proposal is in progress and due for publication by Routledge in August 2026.
2010Led an internal collaborative formulaic bid and awarded (£71,651.00), Postcolonial Study Cluster. The seed funding supported publications in English Literature, History and Drama.
2009 Awarded £900.00 by University of Greenwich Research and Enterprise Investment Programme for monograph research, Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition. The book was published in 2013.