Joan Anim-Addo is a writer and scholar. Her publications include Janie, Cricketing Lady (poetry); Imoinda (libretto); Longest Journey: A History of Black Lewisham, and Touching the Body: History, Language and African-Caribbean Women’s Writing. Currently Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, she is also the UK’s first Black Professor of Literature and the Humanities. She is a Leverhulme Research Fellow. Her most recent publication is This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelf in 50 Books (co-written). She is Founder-Editor of Blacklines, the Journal of Black British Writing, and Editor-in Chief of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Black British Writing, 3 Volumes (forthcoming).
Public Events
March 18, 2025
An Afternoon with Joan Anim-Addo Faculty/Student Discussion
March 20, 2025
Imoinda Speaks: Authorising the enslaved Black Woman After Aphra Behn Public Lecture
March 21, 2025
Imoinda World Premiere – A Youth Production Film Screening