I am Professor Emerita of History at Birkbeck, University of London, Professor Emerita of Rhetoric at Gresham College, and a Fellow of the British Academy. I am the prize-winning author of fifteen books, as well as over 120 articles in academic journals. In 2022, Reaktion Books published Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence and Oxford University Press published Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Education for Working People. My book, entitled Evil Women, is now 'in press' with Reaktion Books. I am currently writing a book on 'wine and women', that is, female cultures of wine-drinking. My books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Korean, and Greek.  

Breaking news: On 25 April 2025, I will be giving the Alan Graham Memorial Lecture of the Irish Association for American Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Join us!