Jane Potter

Jane Potter

Current Role:

Senior Lecturer in Publishing, Brookes University

Research:

Jane's research and teaching focuses on book and literary history. Her monograph Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 (OUP 2005; paperback 2007) was joint winner of the 2006 Women’s History Network Book Prize and she has published widely on many aspects of war literature, book history, and women's writing. Her current research is a collaborative project on the written responses to trauma of wartime medical personnel from the Second Anglo-Boer War to Iraq.

Previously Research Editor for Literature (1780-2000) at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she is Book Reviews Editor of Women’s History Magazine and the Editor of the Wilfred Owen Association Journal . Jane is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Scholarly Publishing and an Academic Advisor for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (SOFO).

Immediate research projects

•    Medicine, Trauma and War, Crimea to Iraq (in collaboration with Dr Carol Acton, St Jerome's, University of Waterloo, Canada)
•    With Jon Stallworthy, Penguin Selected Poems of Ivor Gurney, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg
•    Good Old Anna by Marie Belloc Lowndes, new edition for British Literature of World War I (Pickering & Chatto), General Editor, Andrew Maunder

Books and other publications

 
•    Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women’s Literary Responses to the Great War, 1914-1918 (Oxford University Press, 2005; paperback 2008)
•    ‘Reading Poetry of the First World War’, online course, Bloomsbury.com (2000 & ongoing)
•    ‘The Bible and the Poets of the Great War’, Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature(Blackwell, 2009)
•    '"Peace could not give back her dead": Women and the Armistice', A Part of History: Aspects of the British Experience of the First World War (Continuum, 2008)
•    ‘For Country, Conscience & Commerce: Publishers and Publishing 1914-1918’, Publishing and the First World War: Essays in Book History, M. Hammond & S. Towheed, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
•    ‘Valiant Heroines and Peace-loving Ladies?: War, Gender and the Military in Modern Europe’, Routledge History of Women in Europe, since 1700, Deborah Simonton (ed.), (forthcoming, Routledge, 2005)
•    ‘“A great purifier”: The Great War in Women’s Romances and Memoirs, 1914-1918’. Women’s Fiction and the Great War. Suzanne Raitt & Trudi Tate (eds) (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1997).
•    ‘Hidden Drama by British Women’, Women, Drama and the Great War, Claire M. Tylee (ed.), (Edwin Mellen Press, 2000).
•    'US Women on the Home Front during World War I'; 'Italian Women on the Home Front and in the Services during World War I'; 'May Wedderburn Canan', Women at War Encyclopedia, Bernard Cook, ed. (ABC-Clio, 2006)


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