Merja Makinen

Merja Makinen (born 1953) is director of communication and culture at Middlesex University. She is an expert on feminist writing of the twentieth century, particularly that of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson, and has written on the feminist aspects of popular genre fiction such as the books of Agatha Christie.

Selected publications

 * Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2006.
 * Agatha Christie in Dialogue with To the Lighthouse: The Modernist Artist. Published in The Ageless Agatha Christie, 2016.
 * Taking on Hitler: Agatha Christie’s Wartime Thrillers. Published in Agatha Christie Goes to War, 2019.
 * Hiding in Plain Sight: The Mary Westmacott Novels. Published in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, 2022.