Background
Jo Labanyi was born on March 28, 1946 in Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom.
Jo Labanyi was born on March 28, 1946 in Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom.
Jo Labanyi attended Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford from 1963 to 1967, graduated with B.A. (Spanish).
Jo Labanyi worked at the University of London, Birkbeck College, London, England as a professor of modern Spanish literature and cultural studies since 1971. She also was a founding editor at Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and general editor of Remapping Cultural History book series, Berghahn Books. Labanyi is currently a professor at NYU College of Arts and Science.
She has been a member of International Association of Hispanists, Asociacion Internacional de Galdosistas, Association of Hispanists, British Comparative Literature Association.