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Dr Helena Goodwyn

Assistant Professor

Department: Humanities

Before joining Northumbria University in 2020 I was a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of St Andrews, and before this held teaching positions at the University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London. 

I serve on the editorial board for the Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS), and act as section editor ‘Periodicals’, for the Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (GNCS) journal.

Helena Goodwyn

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Helena has research interests in British and American literature of the long nineteenth century, book and media history, and women’s literature. 

Key Publications

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Open Access: Woman's Thoughts About Men: Malthus and Middle-Class Masculinity in Dinah Mulock Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman, Goodwyn, H. 9 Jun 2022, Women Writing Men: 1689 to 1869, Taylor & Francis
  • Coping Strategies in the 2020-21 Virtual Classroom: A Tribute to my Students, Goodwyn, H. 28 Apr 2021, In: Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
  • A Woman’s Thoughts About Men: Malthus and Middle-class Masculinity in Dinah Mulock Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman, Goodwyn, H. Apr 2021, In: Women's Writing
  • Margaret Harkness, W. T. Stead, and the transatlantic social gospel network, Goodwyn, H. 1 Feb 2019, Margaret Harkness, Manchester, Manchester University Press
  • A ‘New’ Journalist: The Americanization of W. T. Stead, Goodwyn, H. 3 Jul 2018, In: Journal of Victorian Culture
  • Room for Confidence: Early Career Feminists in the English Department, Goodwyn, H., Hogg, E. 2017, Being an Early Career Feminist Academic, Palgrave Macmillan
  • English Studies: The State of the Discipline, Past, Present, and Future, Goodwyn, H., Kitching, M., Gildea, N., Tyson, H. 2015
  • Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Authenticity and the Artist, Goodwyn, H., Beer, J. 1 Jan 2014, Critical Insights: The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Salem Press

Qualifications

  • English Literature MA
  • English Literature PhD
  • English BA (Hons)
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA)

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