Margaretta Jolly

Margaretta Jolly is Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex and directs the University’s Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research. Her work has focused on auto/biography, lettr writing, and oral history, particularly in relation to women’s movements. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Life Writing (2001), which won an American Reference Outstanding Reference Book Award. She is author of In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism (2008) (winner of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association UK Book Prize) and of Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement
1968-present (2019). She edited the ‘Life writing and Intimate Publics’ special issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 34.1 and co-edited with Meg Jensen We Shall Bear Witness: Life Narrative and Human Rights, (2014), and with Cynthia Huff the “Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web” special issue of Auto/Biography Studies; 34.3, Autumn 2019, in which her contribution won the Hogan Prize for an outstanding auto/biographical essay. She is currently Principal Investigator for The Business of Women’s Words: Purpose and Profit in Feminist Publishing, partnered with The British Library. She is a founding member of the International Auto/Biography Association.