Dr Marrisa Joseph

A historian of the British publishing industry, her teaching focuses on management in the creative industries. Her research explores the formation of business practices in the Victorian publishing industry, examining why socio-cultural influences govern how individuals made strategic decisions. Her research interests centre on business history and she is interested in the management of creative industry organisations due to her experience of working in rights management in the publishing industry.

Linked to her research and and industry experience, Marrisa has delivered workshops on publishing research monographs. She has designed professional development courses to commercialise ideas based on intellectual property.

She sits on the management board of the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing at the University of Reading and is a member of the Senate. Externally, she is on the Chartered Management Institute's Regulation and Compliance Committee.

In 2017, she was the recipient of the Journal of Management History Award for Best International Paper at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Her first book, Victorian Literary Businesses, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019 and her first co-edited book, The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing 1900-2020 (Edinburgh University Press), was published in 2024.

Marrisa welcomes applications for doctoral supervision on business history, the publishing industry, creative industries and historical institutionalism.