Monthly Archives: August 2017

Rebecca Lindsay attends the IRSCL Congress 2017, University of York, Toronto

Rebecca Lindsay, part-time PhD student, writes: My paper at the IRSCL Congress 2017 was a success; the Postgraduate Research Fund helped me get there. My trip to Canada to present at the International Research Society of Children’s Literature Congress 2017 … Continue reading

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Congratulations!

We are pleased to announce that Dr Rebecca Bullard has been awarded the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Tony Gray Visiting Scholarship, 2017-18. Rebecca will join the community of OCLW Visiting Scholars at Wolfson College, Oxford, to work on her project: … Continue reading

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Fan studies – a new article

Evan Hayles Gledhill writes: Fan studies is an exciting and developing field that is highly inter-disciplinary; drawing together social science, history, literature, musicology and media scholars. My own research, into Gothic fiction, led me to become interested in audiences and fandoms. Gothic is … Continue reading

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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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