Joycelynne Eleanor Loncke (3 February 1941 – 24 December 2021) was a Guyanese academic who was a professor emeritus at the University of Guyana.
Loncke was born in Georgetown, British Guiana on 3 February 1941,[1][2] into a prominent musical family; a number of her relatives studied overseas and then returned to Guyana to teach or perform.
She chose to study French due to UWI's lack of a music program, but continued receiving private lessons.
Loncke lectured at UWI for a period, but eventually returned to her homeland to take up a position in the Department of Modern Languages at the fledgling University of Guyana.
[5] She served for periods as head of department, dean of the Faculty of Arts, and deputy vice-chancellor, eventually being made a professor emeritus in 2010.