Professor Emeritus, Queen Mary, University of London
2000 – 2020 Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory
School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London
Email m.barrett@qmul.ac.uk
Website https://www.michelebarrett.com
Degrees
D Phil Sussex 1976
Thesis title: ‘A Theory of Modernism and English Society Between the Wars, with special reference to Virginia Woolf’
MA Sociology of Art and Literature, Sussex 1972
BA Hons Sociology Durham 1970
Research awards (selected recent)
2017 British Academy small grant for digitising Woolf project, WoolfNotes
2017 British Academy Newton grant for War Graves project (with Lucy Graham, University of the Western Cape)
2016 Leverhulme Fellowship for Virginia Woolf: the author as note-taker
International Lectures (selected, 1979 to 2017)
(2017) University of the Western Cape; Dartmouth College, NH; Columbia University, NY; Virginia Woolf conference, Massachusetts; Virginia Woolf conference, Baltimore; Canada, Queens University Kingston; MLA San Francisco; Finland, University of Tampere; Johns Hopkins University; New School for Social Research, New York University; Rutgers University; University of Sydney; Macquarie University; Aristotle University, Thessaloniki; University of Uppsala; MLA Washington; UCLA; Cornell University; University of New York Stonybrook; City University of New York; University of Melbourne; University of Alabama; Carleton University, Ottawa; University of Illinois; University of Amsterdam; Free University, Berlin; Universities of Copenhagen, Lund, Stockholm; Trinity College, Dublin; Princeton; Stanford; Smith College (1979).
Professional profile (selected)
2013 Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Heads of Sociology Council
As a head of department I was active in this organization from 1988 – 1994 and a member of its executive in 1993-4.
British Sociological Association
Chairperson 1987 – 89
President 1993 – 5
International Sociological Association 1994 UK National Association Delegate (Bielefeld World Congress)
Ongoing Honorary Vice-President BSA
Editorial Boards of Sociology, Feminist Review, Theory and Society, Signs, Communication, Thesis 11, Rethinking Marxism, Feminist Theory
Refereeing for many other journals and publishers.
Editor of book series ‘Questions for Feminism’, Verso Press 1984 – 92.
ESRC consultant on review of postgraduate courses, and for studentship awards. AHRC,from 2006, member of the Peer Review College.
Previous employment
1989 – 99 Professor of Sociology, City University, London
1985 – 89 Senior Lecturer in Sociology, City University, London
1977 – 85 Lecturer in Sociology, City University, London
1975 – 77 Lecturer in Sociology, University of Hull
Academic Management
Queen Mary, School of English and Drama
2006-2008, Deputy Head of English; Deputy Head, School of English and Drama
2009 – 2013, Head of School
Previous Institutions
City University, Department of Sociology, Head 1988 – 1994
Centre for Research on Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change, Director 1990 – 1996
School of Social and Human Sciences, Director of Research, 1996 – 1999