Tag Archives: Krissie West

Emerson and the Archives

Dr Krissie West writes: Some months ago, I was fortunate to receive funding from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society to further my research for my monograph on Emerson and childhood. Emerson, the spearhead of the nineteenth-century American Transcendentalist movement and … Continue reading

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CIRCL seminars in the Spring Term

Please find here the CIRCL seminars for Spring 2017: 18th January 2017, at 1 pm, Dr Chris Milson, former CIRCL BA, MA and PhD student, will be speaking on Reading Funny Words: Sex, Gender and Language in Silverberg and Smyth’s ‘Sex is … Continue reading

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Congratulations!

Many congratulations to CIRCL PhD student Krissie West! Krissie passed her PhD viva on 10-05-2016 with her thesis”To be boy eternal”: Locating the Child in the Literature and Criticism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. External Examiner: Professor Peter Buse (Kingston University), … Continue reading

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Emerson in 140 characters?

Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, Director of the Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL) and the MA (Res.) in Children’s Literature, writes: CIRCL are delighted to announce that CIRCL PhD student Krissie West, working on American Transcendentalism … Continue reading

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A summer trip to Harvard

Krissie West, one of our postgraduate researchers, writes… I was really fortunate to spend three weeks of this summer in the US, thanks to a bursary from the department and the Graduate School, continuing my PhD research on Transcendentalism in … Continue reading

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CIRCL Seminar – all welcome!

On Wednesday 6th November, from 1 pm to 3 pm, in HUMSS 106, Whiteknights Campus, CIRCL PhD student Krissie West will give a CIRCL seminar on ‘Observation and Conversation: A. Bronson Alcott’s Constructions of Childhood’.

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