Professor Mary Evans

Contact: M.S.Evans@lse.ac.uk

Mary Evans is a Visiting Professor in Sociology and Gender, attached to the Department of Sociology and the Gender Institute. Her work has been across disciplinary boundaries but has been consistently concerned with gender and the ways in which gender informs and structures the social world and in particular various forms of western narrative about it. The various subjects of her work have included Jane Austen and Simone de Beauvoir as well as numerous essays on subjects such as the literature of memory and of cultural change . At present she is engaged in a study of the changing imagination of difference, in the context of competing moralities and politics within detective and crime fiction . The work is particularly concerned with the emergence of contrasting ideas of collective 'social' culpability and individual 'natural' responsibility, the relationship between crime and the political and the various defences and constructions of social 'order'.

Her most recent work includes the editorship of the Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies and A Short History of Society and she is a member of various editorial boards, as well as being a Founding Editor of the European Journal of Women's Studies.