Professor Jo Gill

Vice Principal & Head of College (Arts & Humanities Senior Management)
Professor of Twentieth-Century and American Literature (English Literature)

telephone: 01413302458
email: Jo.Gill@glasgow.ac.uk

6 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Biography

Jo Gill is Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts & Humanities, and Professor of Twentieth-Century and American Literature. She joined the University of Glasgow in August 2022 from the University of Exeter where she served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the College of Humanities. She previously held the roles of Associate Dean for Education (2018-19) and Associate Dean for International and Development (2016-18).

Jo was educated at a comprehensive school in the north-west of England and took her BA at Leicester and her MA at York. She then worked in newspapers, publishing and the charity sector prior to returning to academia and taking her PhD at the University of Gloucestershire (2001).

Jo served for six years as Governor, and then Chair of Governors, at Richard Huish Sixth Form College, Somerset. She is former secretary to the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and was the inaugural co-chair of the BAAS/US Embassy Grants Programme. She has previously served as a trustee of the Exeter Northcott Theatre and currently sits on the Advisory Board of the “93% Club.”

Research interests

Jo’s research and teaching interests include modern American poetry and the literature and culture of cities and suburbs. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetics (2007), The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath (2008) and The Poetics of the American Suburbs (2013). Her latest book, which was completed with the support of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, is Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms (OUP, forthcoming).

Publications

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Number of items: 38.

2023

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2023) Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198868347 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198868347.001.0001)

2022

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2022) Hart Crane: the "architectural art". Modernism/Modernity, 29(1), pp. 1-25. (doi: 10.1353/mod.2021.0069)

2021

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2021) “Those blessed structures”: Robert Lowell’s architectural aesthetic. Bishop-Lowell Studies, 1(1), pp. 27-60. (doi: 10.5325/bishoplowellstud.1.0027)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2021) New York. In: Cleghorn, Angus and Ellis, Jonathan (eds.) Elizabeth Bishop in Context. Series: Literature in context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, pp. 38-47. ISBN 9781108495974 (doi: 10.1017/9781108856492.005)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2021) Elizabeth Bishop’s pink. Review of English Studies, 72(303), pp. 147-168. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgaa077)

2019

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2019) Gwendolyn Brooks and the legacies of architectural modernity. Humanities, 8(4), 167. (doi: 10.3390/h8040167)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2019) On efficiency: John Updike’s poetry archives. In: Anderson, Linda, Byers, Mark and Warner, Ahren (eds.) The Contemporary Poetry Archive: Essays and Interventions. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 92-110. ISBN 9781474432436

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2019) John Updike's poetics of hope. In: Shipe, Matthew and Dill, Scott (eds.) Updike and Politics: New Considerations. Lexington Books: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 61-80. ISBN 9781498575607

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2019) Reworking the same water: Robert Lowell transported. In: Austenfeld, Thomas (ed.) Robert Lowell in a New Century: European and American Perspectives. Series: Studies in American literature and culture. Camden House: Rochester, New York, pp. 40-53. ISBN 9781640140288 (doi: 10.1017/9781787444645.004)

2016

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2016) “The house / of herself”: reading place and space in the poetry of Anne Sexton. In: Golden, Amanda (ed.) The Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton. University Press of Florida: Gainesville, pp. 17-37. ISBN 9780813062204 (doi: 10.5744/florida/9780813062204.003.0002)

2015

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2015) “Phyllis McGinley needs no puff”: gender and value in mid-century American poetry. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 34(2), pp. 355-378.

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 and Burton, Paul (2015) Suburban Spaces, Suburban Cultures [Guest Editors]. Built Environment, 41(4),

2013

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2013) The Poetics of the American Suburbs. Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. Palgrave Macmillan: New York. ISBN 9781137340221 (doi: 10.1057/9781137340238)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2013) ‘The ssshh of sprays on all the little lawns’: imagining the post-war American suburbs. In: Dines, Martin and Vermeulen, Timtheus (eds.) New Suburban Stories. Series: Bloomsbury studies in the city. Bloomsbury Academic: London ; New York, pp. 111-122. ISBN 9781472510938 (doi: 10.5040/9781472543745.ch-008)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2013) ‘Quite the opposite of a feminist’: Phyllis McGinley, Betty Friedan and discourses of gender in mid-century American culture. Women's History Review, 22(3), pp. 422-439. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2012.726127)

2012

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2012) ‘Northern working-class spectator sports’: Tony Harrison’s Continuous. In: Cockin, Katharine (ed.) The Literary North. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 157-174. ISBN 9781349349593 (doi: 10.1057/9781137026873_10)

2011

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2011) Reading H.D.: influence and legacy. In: Christodoulides, Nephie J. and Mackay, Polina (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to H. D. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 77-92. ISBN 9780521769082 (doi: 10.1017/CCOL9780521769082.008)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2011) Space, gender, race: Josephine Miles and the poetics of the California suburbs. Western American Literature, 46(3), pp. 250-271. (doi: 10.1353/wal.2011.0070)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2011) Bestiary USA. In: Martiny, Erik (ed.) A Companion to Poetic Genre. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, Mass. ; Oxford, pp. 555-567. ISBN 9781444336733 (doi: 10.1002/9781444344318.ch39)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2011) Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. In: Gifford, Terry (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 53-66. ISBN 9780521197526 (doi: 10.1017/CCOL9780521197526.005)

2010

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2010) ”Thank you for saying so well what I feel so strongly”: Letters to Phyllis McGinley, the “Housewife Poet”. 7th International Autobiography Association Conference (IABA 2010), Brighton, UK, 28 Jun - 01 Jul 2010.

2009

Barker, Simon and Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (Eds.) (2009) Literature as History: Essays in Honour of Peter Widdowson. Continuum: London ; New York. ISBN 9780826433855

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2009) Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance. Biography, 32(3), pp. 557-559. (doi: 10.1353/bio.0.0123)[Book Review]

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 and Waters, Melanie (2009) Poetry and autobiography. Life Writing, 6(1), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1080/14484520802550262)

2008

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2008) The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521867269 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511817007)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2008) The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry. Modern Language Review, 103(3), pp. 838-839. (doi: 10.2307/20467940)[Book Review]

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2008) Phyllis McGinley and the Poetics of the American Suburbs. British Association for American Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 27-30 Mar 2008.

2007

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2007) Anne Sexton's Confessional Poetics. University Press of Florida: Gainesville. ISBN 9780813031750

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2007) Anne Sexton’s poetics of the suburbs. In: Jackson, Mark (ed.) Health and the Modern Home. Series: Routledge studies in the social history of medicine (31). Routledge: New York ; London, pp. 63-83. ISBN 9780415956109

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2007) Women's Poetry. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748623051

2006

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2006) Confessional writing and the trope of the letter: Robert Lowell and Ted Hughes. In: Mathé, Sylvie and Teulié, Gilles (eds.) Cultures de la confession: formes de l'aveu dans le monde anglophone. Series: Mondes anglophones. Publications de l'Université de Provence: Aix-en-Provence, pp. 191-197. ISBN 9782853996471

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (Ed.) (2006) The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge ; New York. ISBN 9780521844963

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2006) The Colossus and Crossing the Water. In: Gill, Jo (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge ; New York, pp. 90-106. ISBN 9780521844963 (doi: 10.1017/CCOL0521844967.007)

2005

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2005) Introduction. In: Gill, Jo (ed.) Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9780415339698 (doi: 10.4324/9780203449240-8)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2005) Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415339698 (doi: 10.4324/9780203449240)

Gill, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5272-8624 (2005) ‘Your story. My story’: confessional writing and the case of Birthday Letters. In: Gill, Jo (ed.) Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 67-83. ISBN 9780415339698 (doi: 10.4324/9780203449240-12)