Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings
Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings recognises the importance and innovativeness of the musician and artist Joni Mitchell and the need for a collection that theorizes her work as musician, composer, cultural commentator and antagonist. It showcases pieces by established and early career academics from the fields of popular music and literary studies on subjects such as Mitchell's guitar technique, the politics of aging in her work, and her fractious relationship with feminism. The collection features close readings of specific songs, albums, and performances while also paying keen attention to Mitchell's wider cultural contributions and significance.
other publications (selected)
With Karen Schaller, ‘Witching the Institution’, The Witch Studies Reader eds. Jane Ward and Soma Chaudhuri. Duke University Press: Durham, forthcoming Winter 2024,
Shaming the Shameless: What’s Dangerous about Anais Nin? In: The Dangerous Women Project and Dangerous Women, eds. Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson, and Abrisham Ahmadzadeh, 2022.
‘The only thing that’s never going away’: still listening to Blue. In: Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings. Bloomsbury: New York, 2019.
'An anthropology of the present': caring about things in Siri Hustvedt's 'The Blindfold'. Alluvium: 21st-Century Writing, 21st–Century Approaches, 4 (6). 2016. ISSN: 2050-1560.
‘I want what everyone wants’: cruel optimism in HBO’s Girls. In: Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture. Eds. Helen Davies and Claire O’Callaghan. I.B Tauris, London, 2016.
'His peremptory prick': the failure of the phallic in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve. In: Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts. Eds. Cesare Cuttica and Gaby Mahlberg, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2015.
Incest in the 1990s: reading Anais Nin's 'Father Story'. Life Writing, 11 (1). 2013, pp. 55-68. ISSN: 1448-4528.
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