Nicole Ward Jouve (born 1938) is a French writer and literary critic, who writes in both French and English. For most of her career Ward Jouve lived and worked in England.^[1] She is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of York.^[2]

Ward Jouve has been influenced by French literary critics such as Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Hélène Cixous. She writes in French, before translating herself into English.^[1]

Works

• Spectre du Gris, 1977. Translated to English as Shades of Grey, London: Virago, 1981.
• Baudelaire: A Fire to Conquer Darkness. London: Macmillan, 1979.
• L'éntremise. Paris: Des femmes, 1980.
• Un homme nommé Zopolski. Paris: Des femmes, 1983.
• "The Street-cleaner": The Yorkshire Ripper Case on Trial. London: Boyars, 1986.
• Colette. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
• White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue: Criticism as Autobiography. London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.
• (with Sue Roe, Susan Sellers, and Michèle Roberts) The Semi-Transparent Envelope: Women Writing, Feminism and Fiction. London: Boyars, 1994.
• The house where salmon perched. London: Rear Window, 1994.
• Female Genesis: Creativity, Self and Gender. Cambridge: Polity, 1997,
• Petits moments d'une femme qui rêvait d'être poète. Paris: Le préau des collines, 2005. With photographs by Jacques Le Sanff.