Tag Archives: Dr Sue Walsh

The latest publication from Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Cindy

Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein has just published a new, edited, volume, for which she has also written the introduction and first chapter, and which includes contributions from a wide range of colleagues from CIRCL (The Graduate Centre for International Research in … Continue reading →

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Celebrating teaching and learning

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Cindy

On the 17th March last term, RUSU held their Partnership in Teaching and Learning Showcase at which winners of the Teaching Excellence Awards were invited to speak. These teaching awards aim to recognise members of University of Reading staff who … Continue reading →

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CIRCL conference

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Cindy

At the forthcoming CIRCL conference in Seoul, Korea, on ‘Childhood and Gender’ Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein will give the keynote lecture and other CIRCL members, including Dr Sue Walsh, will be giving lectures. Past PhD students of CIRCL will be coming from Taiwan, … Continue reading →

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The Last Taboo

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Cindy

Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein writes: In 2007, I edited and contributed to the volume The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair (Manchester University Press, 2007 and paperback reprint 2011) including contributions from several other colleagues in the department, such as Mrs … Continue reading →

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Congratulations!

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Cindy

Karin Lesnik-Oberstein writes: The department is delighted to announce that Dr Sue Walsh has this year been awarded an University Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning. Sue has taught in the department since 2001, when she was awarded … Continue reading →

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Well done Kia!

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Cindy

Congratulations to CIRCL PhD student Kia Michalopoulou for passing her viva on 29-04-2013 with her thesis on ‘The Purloined Child: Detective Fiction and Criticism’! External Examiner: Dr Jenny Bavidge from the University of Cambridge and Internal Examiner Dr Sue Walsh, … Continue reading →

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Talk at MERL: Wilderness as a baptism of nature

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Cindy

Dr Sue Walsh will be giving a seminar at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) entitled ‘Wilderness, as a baptism of nature: Childhood and the Nature Fakers’ on 19th February 2013, from 4.30-6 pm. Taking up late C19th and early C20th … Continue reading →

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Sue Walsh on her recent research

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Cindy

  During my research leave I worked on my article ‘The Child in Wolf’s Clothing: the Meanings of the “Wolf” and questions of identity in Jack London’s White Fang’ which will come out in the European Journal of American Culture … Continue reading →

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6 October 2012 – 14 April 2013 Ladybird exhibition at the Museum of English

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Cindy

  What would happen if you asked different experts to look at a single illustration of rural life? This exhibition does precisely that. It focuses on a small watercolour by the artist Charles Tunnicliffe. This was one of many artworks … Continue reading →

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Dr Pablo Mukherjee visits to talk on Kipling

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Cindy

            On Wednesday 14th March Dr Pablo Mukherjee, Reader in English at the University of Warwick, came to give the Modern Studies Research Seminar on ‘The Dead Who Did Not Die: Rudyard Kipling and Cholera’. … Continue reading →

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