| Birth Date: | 2 November 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Wellington |
| Nationality: | New Zealand |
| Alma Mater: | Victoria University of Wellington University of Sydney St Catherine's College, Oxford |
| Thesis Title: | An edition of Roger Edgeworth's Sermons very fruitfull, godly and learned (from the 1557 edition and Bodl. MS Rawl. D. 831) |
| Thesis Url: | http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=OXVU1&docId=oxfaleph011540429 |
| Thesis Year: | 1985 |
| Discipline: | English |
| Work Institution: | University of Northampton |
| Known For: | Research and writing on Postcolonial studies |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Douglas Gray, JRR Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language, Lady Margaret Hall, OxfordLady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
| Spouse: | Kevin Ireland |
Janet M. Wilson is a UK-based New Zealand academic who specialises in post colonial New Zealand literature.
Janet Mary Wilson is Emerita Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology, University of Northampton[1] and editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing[2] and on the board of the Journal of New Zealand Literature.[3]
Previous appointments were held at Birkbeck, University of London, University of Otago, Oxford Brookes University, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, University of Auckland and University of Sydney.
Wilson was elected Vice President of the National Conference of University Professors in 2018 and became President in 2020 until 2022.[4]
Wilson holds an MA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington, an MA in Medieval English from the University of Sydney and a DPhil from St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Wilson currently holds a Visiting Professorship at Birmingham City University, is an Academic Visitor at University of Auckland and a Visiting Research Fellow at Rothermere American Institute University of Oxford where she was previously a Senior Research Fellow and an Associate Research Fellow. She was previously a Visiting Fellow at Jamia Millia Islamia University.
Wilson was a recipient of an Australian Commonwealth Fellowship at the University of Sydney (1972-1974) and a Violet Vaughan Morgan Studentship at St Catherine's College, Oxford (1980-1981).
Wilson was, until his death, married to the New Zealand writer and poet Kevin Ireland.