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. The New Critical Idiom : Autobiography. London, UK:Routledge,2001.
• Anderson L, ed. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery. Tarset, Northumberland:Bloodaxe Books Ltd.,2002.
• 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. 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. 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,2008, pp. 165-175.
• 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. ABES Bibliography on Women and Autobiography. 1998.
• 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 LR. Partial Recall. 2013. In Preparation.
• Anderson LR, Ozumba K, ed. Writers in Audience. 2012. In Preparation.