Prof Anne Schwan's Outputs (73)

Mary Louisa Gordon 1861-1941 (2024)
Digital Artefact
Schwan, A. (2024). Mary Louisa Gordon 1861-1941. [Online biography]

A tribute to Mary Louisa Gordon by Anne Schwan.

Femicide, Perpetrator Narratives and the Challenge of Restorative Justice: Em Strang's Quinn (2023) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2024, August). Femicide, Perpetrator Narratives and the Challenge of Restorative Justice: Em Strang's Quinn (2023). Paper presented at European Society of the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Conan Doyle and Mormonism: Global Contexts for A Study in Scarlet (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2024, April). Conan Doyle and Mormonism: Global Contexts for A Study in Scarlet. Paper presented at Global Conan Doyle Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland

Review of Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England (2023)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2023). Review of Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England. Cultural and Social History, 20(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2241740

Prisoner of War Camp Journals (2023)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2023). Prisoner of War Camp Journals. In M. Demoor, C. Van Dijck, & B. Van Puymbroeck (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

A case study of internment camp newspaper Stobsiade, contextualised in an overview of First World War internment camp periodicals.

The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (2022)
Book
Schwan, A., & Thomson, T. (Eds.). (2022). The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11886-9

This collection seeks to bring together some of the most recent international scholarship and developments in the interdisciplinary fields of digital and public humanities. Alongside a critical exploration of the production, distribution and scholars... Read More about The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities.

Introduction: Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (2022)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A., & Thomson, T. (2022). Introduction: Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities. In A. Schwan, & T. Thomson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (1-8). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11886-9_1

This chapter introduces some key concepts and critical debates in digital and public humanities. Emphasis is placed on the multiplicity of “publics” that the collection engages with, including historically underrepresented communities. The chapter cr... Read More about Introduction: Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities.

Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen (2022)
Book Chapter
Gray, P., & Schwan, A. (2022). Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen. In A. Schwan, & T. Thomson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (105-128). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11886-9_7

This chapter considers public arts and humanities scholarship and practice in the context of penal institutions, with a focus on women’s prisons and film-making. It argues for a critical-reflective practice, highlighting the opportunities and challen... Read More about Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen.

'Criminal Voice', Gender and (Sexual) Violence in Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2022, September). 'Criminal Voice', Gender and (Sexual) Violence in Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project. Paper presented at European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany

Intercultural Encounters in First World War Internment Camps (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2022, June). Intercultural Encounters in First World War Internment Camps. Paper presented at MLA International Symposium, Glasgow, UK

Mixed National Allegiances?: Cross-Cultural Encounters, Patriotism and Identity in First World War Internment Camp Newspapers (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2021, July). Mixed National Allegiances?: Cross-Cultural Encounters, Patriotism and Identity in First World War Internment Camp Newspapers. Paper presented at Enemy Encounters, Cardiff (Online)

German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade (2020)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2020). German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade. In M. Kelly, & C. Westall (Eds.), Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice (41-57). Routledge

No abstract available.

Carpenter, Mary (2020)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2020). Carpenter, Mary. In L. Scholl (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_178-1

Nineteenth-century reformer Mary Carpenter (1807–1877) established an international profile as prolific author and public speaker with a focus on educational and penal reform. After initial reluctance, she also supported the women’s suffrage movement... Read More about Carpenter, Mary.

Minorities on the Homefront: 'Enemy Alien' Internment in the British Empire 1914-1919. Education Learning Resource for use in Scottish prison learning centres. (2019)
Other
Schwan, A., Hannay, R., Manz, S., & Cameron, K. (2019). Minorities on the Homefront: 'Enemy Alien' Internment in the British Empire 1914-1919. Education Learning Resource for use in Scottish prison learning centres

Education resource containing materials and activities on internment camps during the First World War. Developed for schools in the context of a collaborative AHRC grant, by Rosemary Hannay and Stefan Manz. The version for use in prisons was modified... Read More about Minorities on the Homefront: 'Enemy Alien' Internment in the British Empire 1914-1919. Education Learning Resource for use in Scottish prison learning centres..

Creativity Behind the Barbed Wire: Irony, Humour and Masculinity in the Internment Camp Newspaper ‘Stobsiade’ (1915-1919) (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2019, April). Creativity Behind the Barbed Wire: Irony, Humour and Masculinity in the Internment Camp Newspaper ‘Stobsiade’ (1915-1919). Presented at Professorial Lecture, Edinburgh Napier University

Representing Women in Prison (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A., & Gray, P. (2019, March). Representing Women in Prison. Paper presented at Scottish Universities-Prisons Network Conference: ‘Empowering, Linking, Making'

How to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the birth of the prison (2018)
Book
Schwan, A., & Shapiro, S. (2018). How to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the birth of the prison. Chongqing University Press

Authored book. Translated into Chinese.

Entry on Frederick William Robinson (2018)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2018). Entry on Frederick William Robinson. In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction (201-202). Jefferson, North Carolina.: McFarland & Company

This is a biographical author entry in literary companion.

'A Night at Stobs' (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2018, November). 'A Night at Stobs'. Presented at The Internment Research Centre (IRC) opening

Presentation on the occasion of the Internment Research Centre (IRC) opening, Hawick, Scotland

The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four (2018)
Book
(in press). A. Schwan (Ed.), The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four. (The Edinburgh Edition). Edinburgh University Press

No abstract available.

‘A Night at Stobs’ and the Politics of Commemoration: Between the Local and the Global (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2018, August). ‘A Night at Stobs’ and the Politics of Commemoration: Between the Local and the Global. Paper presented at 81st Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS)

Paper presented at 81st Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS), Lead Panel on Anniversary Capital, Bangor, Wales

Lustspielabend: A Night at Stobs [Programme Brochure accompanying public performances] (2018)
Other
Schwan, A., Davie, I., Frayn, A., Durkin, R., & Manz, S. (2018). Lustspielabend: A Night at Stobs [Programme Brochure accompanying public performances]

This programme brochure was developed for audiences attending the 'A Night at Stobs' evening of theatre and music in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Hawick in June 2018. It contains information on the background to the performance, and the wider context of cr... Read More about Lustspielabend: A Night at Stobs [Programme Brochure accompanying public performances].

A Night at Stobs (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Schwan, A., Davie, I., Frayn, A., Martin, S., Dempster, K., Durkin, R., …Trimm, C. A Night at Stobs. [Music and Theatre Performance]. 18 June 2018 - 22 June 2018. (Unpublished)

An evening of music and comedy, based on material found at Stobs Camp, a First World War internment camp in the Scottish Borders. Performances at Chalmers Church, Edinburgh (18 June 2018), Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow (19 June 2018), and Tower Mill The... Read More about A Night at Stobs.

German Internees Writing the First World War: Identities, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2018, May). German Internees Writing the First World War: Identities, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade. Paper presented at International Conference on War and Imprisonment, New York, USA

No abstract available.

University-Prison Engagement in Adult Prison Education: Beyond Bibliotherapy and Desistance Theory? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A., Armstrong, S., & King, J. (2017, November). University-Prison Engagement in Adult Prison Education: Beyond Bibliotherapy and Desistance Theory?. Paper presented at 16th International Conference of the European Prison Education Association, Vienna, Austria

No abstract available.

'National Antipathies'?: Representations of the Franco-Prussian War in the British Press (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2017, July). 'National Antipathies'?: Representations of the Franco-Prussian War in the British Press. Paper presented at 'Borders and Border Crossings': 49th Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP), University of Freiburg, Germany

No abstract available.

Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of "Low Life" (2016)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2016). Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of "Low Life". In J. McDonagh, & J. Bristow (Eds.), Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (63-84). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59706-9

Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of "Low Life".

Book Review of "Crimelights: Scottish Crime Writing - Then and Now", ed. by Frauke Reitmeier and Kirsten Sandrock. (2016)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2016). Book Review of "Crimelights: Scottish Crime Writing - Then and Now", ed. by Frauke Reitmeier and Kirsten Sandrock. Scottish Literary Review, 8(2), 176-178

No abstract available.

Introduction - Screening Women’s Imprisonment: Agency and Exploitation in Orange is the New Black. (2016)
Journal Article
Artt, S., & Schwan, A. (2016). Introduction - Screening Women’s Imprisonment: Agency and Exploitation in Orange is the New Black. Television and New Media, 16(5), 1-6

Introduction to the special edition of Television & New Media.

'National Antipathies'?: Britain, Europe and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2016, August). 'National Antipathies'?: Britain, Europe and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Paper presented at Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies: Consuming (the) Victorians, Cardiff, UK

Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black (2016)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2016). Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black. Television and New Media, 17(6), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476416647497

This article argues that Netflix’s original series Orange is the New Black (2013-), based on Piper Kerman’s memoir (2010), uses postfeminist strategies to covertly promote prison reform and exercise a subtle critique of (female) mass incarceration wh... Read More about Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black.

Introducing video essays. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A., Artt, S., & Joyce, L. (2015, June). Introducing video essays. Paper presented at Assessment and Feedback: where are we now and where are we going?, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

No abstract available.

Orange is the New Black and cultural representations of women’s Imprisonment. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2015, April). Orange is the New Black and cultural representations of women’s Imprisonment. Paper presented at Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada

No abstract available.

Convict Voices: Women, Class and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England (2014)
Book
Schwan, A. (2014). Convict Voices: Women, Class and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press

In this lively study of the development and transformation of voices of female offenders in nineteenth-century England, Anne Schwan analyzes a range of colorful sources, including crime broadsides, reform literature, prisoners' own writings about imp... Read More about Convict Voices: Women, Class and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England.

'Painted and attired even unto death': representing the female offender in the Manning Murder Case of 1849. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2014, March). 'Painted and attired even unto death': representing the female offender in the Manning Murder Case of 1849. Paper presented at Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now, Durham University

No abstract available.

Crime and Punishment (2014)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2014). Crime and Punishment. In J. John (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199799558-0087

The study of Victorian crime and punishment is a rich area of research that has attracted the interest not only of literary scholars but also of social historians, legal historians, and criminologists. Related scholarship therefore often situates its... Read More about Crime and Punishment.

Review of article-Cristina Hanganu-Bresch’s and Carol Berkenkotter’s “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement. (2013)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2013). Review of article-Cristina Hanganu-Bresch’s and Carol Berkenkotter’s “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement. Journal of Literature and Science, 6, 82-83. https://doi.org/10.12929/jls.06.1.08

No abstract available.

Item is a review of the following journal article - Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter, “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement.” Literature and Medicine 30.1 (2012): 12-41... Read More about Review of article-Cristina Hanganu-Bresch’s and Carol Berkenkotter’s “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement..

Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of Low Life (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2013, September). Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of Low Life. Paper presented at Lesser Victorians: Beyond the Canon in Victorian Fiction, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin

No abstract available.

Female criminality in cross-national perspective: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2013, June). Female criminality in cross-national perspective: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick. Paper presented at Joint Conference of the British, North American and Australasian Associations for Victorian Studies: The Global and The Local, Venice, Italy

No abstract available.

‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway (2012)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2013). ‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway. Women's History Review, 22(1), 148-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2012.724917

This article discusses the life and imprisonment of the largely unknown middle-class artist and suffrage activist Katie Gliddon and analyzes her extensive prison diary, secretly written and drawn in her copy of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shel... Read More about ‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway.

'Woman’s Wrongs’: gender, free love and the law in Susan Willis Fletcher’s "Twelve Months in an English Prison" (1884) (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2012, June). 'Woman’s Wrongs’: gender, free love and the law in Susan Willis Fletcher’s "Twelve Months in an English Prison" (1884). Paper presented at Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928), Newcastle University, UK

No abstract available.

Reading about crime and punishment, prison volunteering and employability for literary studies graduates (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2012, May). Reading about crime and punishment, prison volunteering and employability for literary studies graduates. Paper presented at The Higher Education Academy Arts and Humanities Annual Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

No abstract available.

Adultery, gender and the nation: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2012, April). Adultery, gender and the nation: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick. Paper presented at Bodies of Evidence: Crime, Gender, and Representation, Newcastle University, UK

Introduction - Reading and Writing in Prison (2011)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2011). Introduction - Reading and Writing in Prison. Critical Survey, 23(3), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2011.230301

No abstract available.

Special issue of Critical Survey - Reading and Writing in Prison. Anne Schwan is guest editor.

Crime (2011)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2011). Crime. In S. Ledger, & H. Furneaux (Eds.), Charles Dickens in Context, (301-309). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511975493.039

Reflecting on society's treatment of convicts in 1891, Oscar Wilde declared that ‘one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more br... Read More about Crime.

How to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the birth of the prison (2011)
Book
Schwan, A., & Shapiro, S. (2011). How to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the birth of the prison. Pluto Press

Book Review of "Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009" by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn. (2011)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2011). Book Review of "Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009" by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn. Contemporary Women's Writing, 5(2), 161-162. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpr004

No abstract available.

‘Dreadful Beyond Description’: Mary Carpenter's prison reform writings and female convicts in Britain and India (2010)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2010). ‘Dreadful Beyond Description’: Mary Carpenter's prison reform writings and female convicts in Britain and India. European Journal of English Studies, 14(2), 107-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2010.481450

Mary Carpenter (1807-77) was one of mid-Victorian England's most prolific social reformers, starting her career with a focus on the reformation of juvenile offenders. This article considers Carpenter's writings on female convicts in Britain and India... Read More about ‘Dreadful Beyond Description’: Mary Carpenter's prison reform writings and female convicts in Britain and India.

Constructing citizenship through suffragette prison diaries (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2010, June). Constructing citizenship through suffragette prison diaries. Paper presented at 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference, University of Sussex

No abstract available.

From "Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures" to stories of "Flesh and Blood": the prison naratives of Frederick William Robinson (2009)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2009). From "Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures" to stories of "Flesh and Blood": the prison naratives of Frederick William Robinson. In J. Alber, & F. Lauterbach (Eds.), Stones of Law-Bricks of Shame: narrating imprisonment in the Victorian age (191-212). Toronto University Press

Gender, class and citizenship in suffragette prison memoirs (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2009, October). Gender, class and citizenship in suffragette prison memoirs. Paper presented at Lives in Relation: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Life Writing, University of Lincoln

No abstract available.

Book Review - "The Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde" - Robert Louis Stevenson and the Victorian alcoholism debate. (2008)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2008). Book Review - "The Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde" - Robert Louis Stevenson and the Victorian alcoholism debate. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 5,

Empowering Students Through Reading Diaries (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A., & Wasson, S. (2008, December). Empowering Students Through Reading Diaries. Paper presented at English Subject Centre Conference 'Beyond the Essay', Northumbria University

No abstract available.

Entries for Living My Life by Emma Goldman; The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers; The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer; Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach; Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (2007)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2007). Entries for Living My Life by Emma Goldman; The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers; The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer; Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach; Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. In Books: Over a Century of the Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events that Rocked the Literary World. Cassell

Victorian convict lives: selling the prison experience (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2007, August). Victorian convict lives: selling the prison experience. Paper presented at British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, 8th annual conference: Victorian cultural industries & elites, University of Salford

No abstract available.

Book review-"The art of alibi; English law courts and the novel" by Jonathan Grossman. (2006)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2006). Book review-"The art of alibi; English law courts and the novel" by Jonathan Grossman. Journal of Victorian Culture, 11, 193-198

Book Review - "Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence: the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle" by Lawrence Frank. (2006)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2006). Book Review - "Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence: the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle" by Lawrence Frank. Journal of Victorian Culture, 11, 193-198. https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2006.11.1.180

'Grop[ing] in the Darkness': Frederick William Robinson’s Tales of Female Crime and Incarceration (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2006, November). 'Grop[ing] in the Darkness': Frederick William Robinson’s Tales of Female Crime and Incarceration. Paper presented at 48th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, USA

No abstract available.

Voices from prison: Nineteenth-Century narratives of female Incarceration (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2006, October). Voices from prison: Nineteenth-Century narratives of female Incarceration. Paper presented at Neglected Narratives and Untold Stories, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

No abstract available.

Mediating the world of the prison: class and gender in Victorian convict autobiography (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2006, July). Mediating the world of the prison: class and gender in Victorian convict autobiography. Paper presented at 5th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany

No abstract available.

A wretched sight to see: women’s criminality and criminal justice in Nineteenth-Century British gallows literature (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2006, April). A wretched sight to see: women’s criminality and criminal justice in Nineteenth-Century British gallows literature. Paper presented at 37th Annual College English Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Women's Imprisonment and Penal Reform: Historical Continuities and Critical Interventions (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2005, September). Women's Imprisonment and Penal Reform: Historical Continuities and Critical Interventions. Paper presented at 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies, University of Gloucestershire

No abstract available.

From 'Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures' to Stories of 'Flesh and Blood': Female Criminality in the Prison Narratives of Frederick William Robinson (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2005, April). From 'Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures' to Stories of 'Flesh and Blood': Female Criminality in the Prison Narratives of Frederick William Robinson. Paper presented at Victorian Criminalities Conference, Exeter University

No abstract available.

The Limitations of a Somatics of Resistance: Sexual Performativity and Gender Dissidence in Dickens's Dombey and Son (2005)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2005). The Limitations of a Somatics of Resistance: Sexual Performativity and Gender Dissidence in Dickens's Dombey and Son. Critical Survey, 17(2), 92-106. https://doi.org/10.3167/001115705781004514

This essay considers some of the implications of a critical turn from a concern with a 'political technology of the body' in the Foucauldian sense to one with embodied micropractices. I will contend here that a critique of social experiences that is... Read More about The Limitations of a Somatics of Resistance: Sexual Performativity and Gender Dissidence in Dickens's Dombey and Son.

Introduction - Dickens and Sex (2005)
Journal Article
Furneaux, H., & Schwan, A. (2005). Introduction - Dickens and Sex. Critical Survey, 17(2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.3167/001115705781004523

This collection explores the still underrepresented topics of sex, erotics and desire in the work of Charles Dickens. Contributors draw upon and suggest new points of convergence between a wide range of theoretical perspectives including cultural phe... Read More about Introduction - Dickens and Sex.

When feminism collides with the politics of difference: the pitfalls of progressive filmmaking. (2004)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2004). When feminism collides with the politics of difference: the pitfalls of progressive filmmaking. In CorpoRealities: In(ter)ventions in an Omnipresent Subject (275-289). Koenigstein/Taunus: Helmer

Writing a History of Sensations from Below: Gallows Literature and the 'Last Lamentations' of Female Criminals (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2004, September). Writing a History of Sensations from Below: Gallows Literature and the 'Last Lamentations' of Female Criminals. Paper presented at 5th Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies, Keele University

No abstract available.

Representing female prisoners: problems in cultural historiography. (2004)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2004). Representing female prisoners: problems in cultural historiography. DISKUS: Zeitschrift Der Stipendiatinnen Der Heinrich Boell Stiftung, 13, 15-18

No abstract available.

'Reclaiming' Female Prisoners: Early Models of Rehabilitation and Prevention in the Work of Elizabeth Fry and Mary Carpenter (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2004, January). 'Reclaiming' Female Prisoners: Early Models of Rehabilitation and Prevention in the Work of Elizabeth Fry and Mary Carpenter. Paper presented at Gender, Crime and Culture: Feminist Crime Research Network Conference, Nottingham Galleries of Justice

No abstract available.

Philanthropic Experiments: Gendered Discipline and the Politics of Female Prison Reform (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2003, September). Philanthropic Experiments: Gendered Discipline and the Politics of Female Prison Reform. Paper presented at 4th Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies, Aberystwyth University

No abstract available.

Re-Writing Women's Prison History: Gender, Class and Authority in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Sarah Waters's Affinity (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2003, August). Re-Writing Women's Prison History: Gender, Class and Authority in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Sarah Waters's Affinity. Paper presented at Hystorical Fictions, Swansea University

No abstract available.

Disciplining female bodies: Foucault and the imprisonment of women. (2002)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2002). Disciplining female bodies: Foucault and the imprisonment of women. In T. Dorfler, & C. Globisch (Eds.), Postmodern Practices. Beitrage zu einer vergehenden epoche. Lit Verlag

Disciplining Female Bodies: Women and Social Control (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2001, November). Disciplining Female Bodies: Women and Social Control. Paper presented at Postmodern Practices, University of Erlangen, Germany

No abstract available.