Dr Helena Goodwyn

Assistant Professor

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

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 on the Advisory Board for the Institute of English Studies.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

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

Key Publications

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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. 28 Nov 2014
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

PGR Supervision

Phoebe Pugh ‘Northern Echo and the Politics of Place’ Start Date: 01/10/2025 End Date: 17/10/2025
Phoebe Pugh ‘Northern Echo and the Politics of Place’ Start Date: 01/10/2025