CHAMBERLAIN, Mary (Christina)

CHAMBERLAIN, Mary (Christina). British, b. 1947. Genres: Area studies, History, Women's studies and issues. Career: Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, research officer, 1970-71; Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, London, research officer, 1972; Social Science Research Council, London, administrative officer, 1972; lecturer in liberal studies: Norfolk College of Art and Technology, King's Lynn, 1973-74, London College of Fashion, 1974-75, and Ipswich Civic College, 1977-87; London College of Printing, sr. lecturer in cultural studies, 1977-87; University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, part-time lecturer, 1988-91; University of Essex, fellow, 1991-93; National Life Story Collection of the British Library National Sound Archive, trustee, 1991-; International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, associate reviews editor, 1992-; Oxford Brookes University, School of Humanities, senior lecturer, 1993, professor of modern history, 1995-; Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative, founder and principal editor, 1997-; Barbados National Oral History Project, consultant, 1999-. Royal Historical Society, Fellow, 2002-. Publications: Fenwomen, 1975; Old Wives' Tales, 1981; Writing Lives, 1988; Growing Up in Lambeth, 1989; Narratives of Exile and Return, 1997; New Perspectives on Caribbean Families, forthcoming. EDITOR: Caribbean Migration: Globalised Identities, 1998; (with P. Thompson) Narrative and Genre, 1998; (with H. Goulbourne) Caribbean Families in Britain and the Trans-Atlantic World, 2001. Address: School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, England. Online address: mcchamberlain@brookes.ac.uk