Professor Janet Todd is an internationally renowned scholar of early women writers and the author of many critical works on subjects ranging from working-class poets, hymn writers and Restoration tricksters to Rousseau, the Marquis de Sade and gothic cinema. Most recently Janet Todd has written four biographies, one concerning Aphra Behn, a celebrated author in the reign of Charles II, and three linked ones on the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter, and her aristocratic Irish pupil. Janet Todd is also the General Editor of the 9-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen.
Professor Todd has taught in Africa, the US and Puerto Rico as well as England and Scotland. At the University of East Anglia, together with Lorna Sage, she began the MA in life-writing and at the University of Aberdeen, where she remains the Herbert J.C. Grierson Professor of English Literature, she was instrumental in setting up the Centre for the Novel. |
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