Newcastle University

Research Interests

My interests lie in women's autobiographical writing and twentieth-century women's poetry, particularly Elizabeth Bishop. Feminist and Queer Theory informs the heart of this research, with an emphasis on psychoanalytic, trauma theory.

• Anderson L. Elizabeth Bishop: Lines of Connection. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
• Anderson L. Dubious Topography in Elizabeth Bishop's 'The End of March'. Royal Society of Literature Review 2012, 41-43.
• Anderson LR. Autobiography. London: Routledge, 2010.
• Anderson L. Autobiography and Exile: Edward Said's Out of Place. In: Ghosh, R, ed. Edward Said and the Literary, Social and Political World. New York: Routledge, 2009, pp.165-175.
• Anderson L. Gender, Feminism, Poetry: Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, Jo Shapcott. In: Corcoran, N, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Anderson L, ed. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery. Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2002.
• Anderson L. The New Critical Idiom : Autobiography. London, UK: Routledge, 2001.
• Anderson L. Autobiography and personal criticism. In: Plain, G; Sellers, S, ed. A History of Feminist Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp.138-153.
• Anderson L. Autobiography and the feminist subject. In: Rooney, E, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.119-135.
• Anderson L. Elizabeth Bishop:The Story of the Eye. In: Anderson, L., Shapcott, J, ed. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery. Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2002, pp.159-174.
• Anderson L. Autobiographical Travesties: the nostalgic self in queer writing. In: Alderson, D., Anderson, L, ed. Territories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring Contemporary Boundaries. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000, pp.68-81.
• Anderson LR, Alderson D, ed. Territories of desire in queer culture: Refiguring contemporary boundaries. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.
• Anderson L. Autobiography. In: Dictionary of Feminist Theory. Routledge, 1999.
• Anderson L. Autobiography. In: Tierney, H, ed. Women's Studies Encyclopedia. London, UK: Aldwych Press, 1999.
• Anderson L. "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" or Learning to Dance with the Bard: Angela Carter's Wise Children. In: Batchelor, J. Cain, T.G., Lamont, C, ed. Shakespearean Continuities: Essays in Honor of E.A.J. Honigman. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan Press, 1997, pp.361-371.
• Anderson L. Remembered Futures: Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century. London, UK: Prentice Hall, 1997.
• Broughton T, Anderson L, ed. Women's Lives/Women's Times. Albany, USA: State University of New York Press, 1997.
• Anderson L, ed. Alice James: Her Life in Letters. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 1996.
• Anderson L. A Politics of Location: The Contemporary Short Story. Stand 1995, 37, 62-65.
• Anderson L. Elizabeth Bishop: The Secret Life of a Poet. In: Batchelor, J, ed. The Art of Literary Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp.173-183.
• Anderson L. Poetry. In: Flambard Poets 2. Newcastle upon Tyne: Flambard Press, 1995.
• Anderson L. Haunting the Margins of History: Toni Morrison's Beloved. In: Davis, J., Wollaston, I, ed. The Sociology of Sacred Texts. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield University Press, 1993, pp.156-162.
• Anderson L, ed. Plotting Change: Contemporary Women's Fiction. London, UK: Edward Arnold, 1990.
• Anderson L. The Re-Imagining of History in Contemporary Women's Fiction. In: Anderson, L, ed. Plotting Change: Contemporary Women's Fiction. London, UK: Edward Arnold, 1990, pp.129-141.
• Anderson L. Questions of Feminist Criticism. Prose Studies 1987, 10(2), 225-230.
• Anderson L. At the Threshold of the Self: Women and Autobiography, 54 - 71. In: Monteith, M, ed. Women's Writing: The Challenge to Theory. Brighton, UK: Harvester Press, 1986.
• Anderson L. Bennett, Wells and Conrad: Narrative in Transition. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1986.
• Anderson L. Hearing You in My Own Voice: Woman as Listener and Reader. In: McGregor, G., White, R.S, ed. The Arts of Listening. London, UK: Croom Helm, 1986, pp.73-86.
• Anderson L. Mapping the Self: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich. Writing Women 1982, 2, 49-59.
• Anderson L. Self and Society in H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay. Modern Fiction Studies 1980, 199-212.
• Anderson L. Ideas of Freedom and Identity in V. S. Naipaul and Joseph Conrad. English Studies 1978, 59(6), 510-517.
• Anderson L. Greenhouse. Mariscat Press, 2013. In Press.