Jo Winning
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Overview
Overview
Highlights
Jo is currently working on the monograph Beyond a Confusion of Tongues: Illness, Language, Writing. The focus of the book
constellates around illness, language, subjectivity and the
clinical encounter. It aims to theorise these relations in new and productive ways. Taking Michael Balint's notion that in the clinical encounter there is a 'confusion of tongues' between clinician and patient as a starting point, it asks how these two subjectivities – of clinician and patient - are constituted. It looks to psychoanalytic frameworks to help understand these, and to probe the space that exists between them. Since the clinical encounter requires some kind of communication, so the book then turns to the question of language and asks what of the different languages of clinician and patient? If Elaine Scarry is right that pain 'destroys language' (and this remains to be debated) what other forms of communication - for example poetry, art, photography, music, sound -might prove productive for the communication of pain and illness? In addition to regarding both pathography and the poetics of illness, the book looks to examples from contemporary art practice, music and film soundtrack to consider communication in the clinical encounter. Taking an applied medical humanities approach, the book straddles the very different disciplinary fields of biomedical science, clinical practice and the humanities disciplines.
Administrative responsibilities
- Assistant Dean for Equalities
- College Dean
- Programme Director, BA Liberal Arts
- Programme Director, MA Applied Medical Humanities
- Director, Centre for Medical Humanities
Professional memberships
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Vice President, Association for Medical Humanities
Lay member, Royal College of Psychiatrists Exams Sub-Committee
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research overview
Jo Winning has research interests in 20th-century and 21st-century literatures, culture, theory and practice.
Specific interests include: modernisms, especially female and lesbian modernism; critical and cultural theory in the twentieth century; theories of gender and sexuality; lesbian subjectivities and cultural production; psychoanalysis and its theories; relations between illness, language and the clinical encounter; medical humanities and the interface between critical theory in the humanities and clinical practice in medicine.
Research Centres and Institutes
- Director, Centre for Medical Humanities
- Vice-President, Association of Medical Humanities
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I welcome doctoral research applications in the following areas:
- modernisms, especially female and lesbian modernism
- critical and cultural theory in the twentieth century
- theories of gender and sexuality
- lesbian subjectivities and cultural production
- psychoanalysis and its theories
- relations between illness, language and the clinical encounter
- medical humanities
I am also interested in discussing PhD research with clinicians who are thinking of undertaking research in the field of medical humanities.Current doctoral researchers
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CHARLOTTE NORTHALL
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GUILAINE KINOUANI
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MATTHEW BATES
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MARIA PATSOU
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BOZENA ZORIC
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FIONA BUCK
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GENEVIEVE SMART
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LINDA MILLER
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LISE GROENVOLD
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RADHA BHAT
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SASKIA BARNARD
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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GORDON BATES
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FRANCES LOCK
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LAURA CUSHING-HARRIES
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JAN NAWROCKI
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LEONIE SHANKS
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ROBYN JAKEMAN
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DAVID MILLER
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GRACE LUCAS
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Winning, Jo (2020) The use of an object: exploring physician burnout through object relations theory. BMJ Medical Humanities ISSN 1468-215X.
- Winning, Joanne (2018) Learning to think-with: feminist epistemology and the practice-based medical humanities. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics 2 (2), pp. 20. ISSN 2542-4920.
- Winning, Joanne (2013) Dreams of a lost modernist: a reevaluation of Thelma Wood. Modernist Cultures 8, pp. 288-322. ISSN 2041-1022.
- Winning, Joanne (2009) Dorothy Richardson and the politics of friendship. Pilgrimages: The Journal of Dorothy Richardson Studies 2, pp. 91-121. ISSN 2050-9502.
Book
- Bryher, None Winning, Joanne, ed. (2000) Bryher: two novels: 'Development' and 'Two Selves'. Wisconsin, USA: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299167745.
Book Section
- Winning, Jo (2019) Djuna Barnes, Thelma Wood and the making of the Lesbian Modernist Grotesque. In: Pender, E. and Setz, C. (eds.) Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes’ Modernism. Pennsylvannia, U.S.: Penn State University Press. pp. 95-112. ISBN 9780271082202.
- Winning, Jo (2019) Both sides, now: voice, affect, and Thirdness. In: Charnock, R. (ed.) Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings. London, UK: Bloomsbury. pp. 65-82. ISBN 9781501332098.
- Winning, Joanne (2016) Afterword: the body and the senses. In: Whitehead, A. and Woods, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 325-335. ISBN 978147440004.
- Winning, Joanne (2016) Love and the art object. In: Taylor, J. (ed.) Modernism and Affect. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 111-130. ISBN 9780748693252.
- Spicer, J. and Harrison, Debbie and Winning, Joanne (2013) The humanities in medical education. In: Walsh, K. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Medical Education. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 233-243. ISBN 9780199652679.
- Winning, Joanne (2013) 'Ezra through the open door': the parties of Natalie Barney, Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach as lesbian modernist cultural production. In: McLoughlin, Kate (ed.) The Modernist Party. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748647316.
- Winning, Joanne (2010) Lesbian modernism: writing in and beyond the closet. In: Stevens, Hugh (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 50-64. ISBN 9780521716574.
- Winning, Joanne (2010) Lesbian sexuality in the story of modernism. In: Brooker, P. and Gasiorek, A. and Longworth, D. and Thacker, A. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. Oxford Handbooks of Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 218-234. ISBN 9780199545445.
Editorial
- McCracken, S. and Winning, Joanne (2015) The Long Modernist Novel: An Introduction. Modernist Cultures 10 (3), pp. 269-281. Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 2041-1022.
Other
- Winning, Joanne (2016) Joanne Winning on her Research Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, 2016. London, UK: Dept of English and Humanities, Birkbeck.