Author Archives: Cindy

About Cindy

Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

The Business of a Woman’s Life: Female Authorship, Celebrity and Fandom in the Long Nineteenth Century

CFP: The Business of a Woman’s Life:  Female Authorship, Celebrity and Fandom in the Long Nineteenth Century An interdisciplinary conference to be hosted by the University of Reading, 26th March 2018. Keynote Speaker (provisional): Prof. Alexis Easley, University of St. Thomas Emily … Continue reading

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WALT DISNEY, PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY AND THE “PRACTICALLY PERFECT”

We would like to invite all PGR and 3rd year students to the first Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster seminar given by Reading University doctoral student John Whitney.  John’s talk will be on psychobiography in the works of Walt Disney … Continue reading

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Congratulations to a newly published writer in our department!

Olivia Lowden writes: We are extremely lucky to have such great creative writing modules at our university, and I have found them both inspiring and helpful to my own writing. The second year module Writing and Revising particularly helped me … Continue reading

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Health Humanities Group film festival

In the run-up to Halloween, and beginning next Wednesday, the Health Humanities Group will be running a film festival on the theme Monsters. Date: Wednesday 11, 18 and 25 October 2017 Time: 7pm Venues: 11 & 18 October: Minghella Building; … Continue reading

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Editing Modernist Letters workshop – alert for students

Editing Modernist Letters Workshop – For more information and details of registration please see https://barpgroup.wordpress.com/ or send an email to barp.letters@gmail.com Thursday 2nd November 2017 University of Reading, Special Collections From the recently completed Letters of Samuel Beckett to forthcoming editions of Dorothy Richardson’s correspondence, the … Continue reading

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Jess Phillips: Using your voice to make a difference

Jess Phillips, MP, visits the University of Reading on November 16th Dr Madeleine Davies (Department of English Literature) writes: Jess Phillips is giving a talk at the University of Reading on Thursday 16th November, 6-8pm, in the Van Emden Lecture … Continue reading

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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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