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Dr Andrew Frayn's Recognition (121)

Member of Executive Committee of the British Association for Modernist Studies (Chair 2022)
2019 - 2023

Description I was elected to the Executive Steering Committee of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) in 2019. I was Chair in 2022.

My roles were as follows:

2019-21: Web/IT Officer
2021: Vice-Chair
2022: Chair
2023: Past Chair
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
URL https://bams.ac.uk

Fellow of the International Society for First World War Studies
2024

Recognition Type Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Description Fellowship of the ISFWWS denotes service to the Society, in this case particularly my Associate Editorship of the journal First World War Studies and service on the Society's Grants Committee.
Research Areas Literature
Cultural heritage
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL https://www.firstworldwarstudies.org

Associate Editor: First World War Studies
2023

Description Associate Editorship of First World War Studies. This is a leading journal in the field, published by Taylor & Francis. The post requires allocating for peer review editors in my subsection (First World War literary & cultural history), finding reviewers, working out decisions, liaising with the Editor-in-Chief.
Research Areas Literature
Military Studies
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfww20

Conference panel chair: 'Ephemeral Economics', Ephemeral Modernisms, British Association for Modernist Studies, University of Leeds, 27-29 June 2024
2024

Description Chair of panel below:

5D: Panel: Ephemeral Economics (Roger Stevens LT 08)
Chair: Andrew Frayn

Rob Hawkes (Teesside University) and Scott Ferguson (University of South Florida), ‘Green-Lighting Gatsby: Austere Modernisms, Exuberant Avant-Gardes, and their Orgastic Futures’
Xiangmei Que (King’s College London), ‘The National Model in Becoming: Laissez-Faire Capitalism and Keynesian Economics in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas’
Megan Faragher (Wright State University), ‘Suicidal Moguls as Modernist Method: Ephemeral Management in Archibald MacLeish and Kenneth Fearing’
Affiliated Organisations University of Leeds
Research Areas Literature
Information society
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Conference organising committee, keynote chair: Identity, Purpose & Belonging: The First Scottish International Conference on Armed Forces in Society, Edinburgh Napier University, 22-28 Aug 2024
2024

Description The Conference offers delegates the opportunity to engage with existing academic research, practitioners across a number of sectors and to participate in shaping emerging thinking on how to improve support for Service personnel, veterans’ and their families as they transition to life outside the military. There is also an exciting opportunity to hear from Research Students who are taking the first steps in sharing their research in a conference environment. #ScotAFConf24

I chaired a keynote by Dr Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes), who is the leading Wilfred Owen expert.
Affiliated Organisations Edinburgh Napier University
Research Areas Military Studies
Art and design
Cultural heritage
Education
Employment
Families and Relationships
Health and wellbeing
Law and Legal Policy
Public health
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Centre for Military Research, Education & Public Engagement
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Business School
URL https://www.napier.ac.uk/about-us/our-schools/the-business-school/our-research/military-transitions-research-centre/identity-purpose-and-belonging-conference-2024

Conference keynote chair: Researching War and Conflict through Ephemera, Northumbria University, 9 April 2024
2024

Description Chaired keynote lecture by Prof Susan Grayzel (Utah State University): ‘Hiding in Plain Sight: Engaging with the Ephemera of Twentieth-Century War’.
Affiliated Organisations Northumbria University
Research Areas Literature
Military Studies
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/warephemera/conference/

Conference talk: Ephemeral Modernisms, British Association for Modernist Studies, University of Leeds, 27-29 June 2024
2024

Description Paper: ‘“All those of my generation feel that war is nothing”: ephemeral modernisms and wartimes in Wyndham Lewis’s The Vulgar Streak (1941).
Affiliated Organisations University of Leeds
Research Areas Literature
Military Studies
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Invited seminar speaker: Emerging Perspectives in H.D.’s Hellenic Modernity and the Future of New Modernist Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 25 May 2024
2024

Description Part of expert roundtable ‘H.D. and Richard Aldington: “It was you who taught me to love those things…”.’ Other speakers Prof Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College, USA), Dr Caroline Zilboorg (Clare Hall, Cambridge).
Affiliated Organisations Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki
Research Areas Literature
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Invited keynote speaker: The Humanities Today: Global and Social Responsibilities, IIS University, Jaipur, India, 17 February 2024
2024

Description Invited keynote lecture to conference on The Humanities Today: Global and Social Responsibilities.
Lecture title: ‘The humanities and Higher Education in the UK and beyond: lineages and legacies.’
Research Areas Literature
Education
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

External examiner: PhD, University of Sheffield, Nikolemma (Nicola) Dimitriou, "The Modernist Rural Flâneur in Travel Writing: Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, Rebecca West and Nan Shepherd", Aug 2024
2024

Description The thesis passed with minor corrections.
Supervisors: Dr Katherine Ebury, Dr Veronica Barnsley
Internal examiner: Dr Amber Regis
Affiliated Organisations University of Sheffield
Research Areas Literature
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Environment
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Invited seminar speaker: The Long (and Difficult) Novel, Difficult Conversations in Modernist Studies, online, August 2023
2023

Description Contributor to a roundtable in the major international series of events collaboratively organised by five International Associations of Modernists: BAMS, MSA, MSiA, AMSN, and SEM

Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier)
• James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson)
• Scott McCracken (Queen Mary, London)
• Jennifer Rushworth (UCL)
This roundtable will discuss the modernist long novel, in particular Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, and Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet and The Avignon Quartet. Why did the long novel come into such prominence in the early twentieth century? What is modernist about the longform novel (how do we think of them differently to the way we think about serialised long
nineteenth century novels)? What is it about the long novel that lends itself so well to modernist concerns? How might we find these novels difficult now: difficult to read, or difficult to teach? Or how might we find them productively complicated, philosophically rich, definition-expanding?
Research Areas Literature
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL https://bams.ac.uk/difficult-conversations-in-modernist-studies/

Founding member and Advisory Committee member, The Imagist Society
2023

Description Founding member and Advisory Committee member of The Imagist Society, a new society devoted to the Imagist poets of the early twentieth century. Lifetime membership awarded. Led by Dr Courtney J. Ruffner Grieneisen (State College of Florida).
Research Areas Literature
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Conference keynote chair; panel chair: Filibusters in Birmingham: A Conference on Wyndham Lewis, University of Birmingham, 22-23 June 2023
2023

Description Panel chair: session 3
Alexander Alfred Scott, ‘Time and the Small Man: Lewis’s Early Interest in Democracy’
Henry Mead, ‘“A Fabulous Hybrid”: Lewis and the British Reception of Sorel’

Keynote chair:
Professor Paul Edwards, 'Wyndham Lewis’s “Revisions” of his Visual Works’ ; update on The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis (OUP)

Other contributions to conference: paper; postgraduate training session (separately listed)
Affiliated Organisations University of Birmingham
Research Areas Literature
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/events/2023/filibusters-in-birmingham.aspx

Conference talk: Filibusters in Birmingham: a Conference on Wyndham Lewis, University of Birmingham, 22-23 June 2023
2023

Description Presentation:
Andrew Frayn, ‘“An epoch where violence is everywhere”: wartime, fascism and otherness in Wyndham Lewis’s The Vulgar Streak (1941)’

Also contributing to:
Postgraduate Training Workshop: ‘Wyndham Lewis and the Modern Academic Career’
Affiliated Organisations University of Birmingham
Research Areas Literature
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/events/2023/filibusters-in-birmingham.aspx

External examiner: 50% PhD review, Stockholm University, Julia Fernelius, "The Place of Things: Material Consciousness and the Modernist Collector in Parade’s End", Nov 2023
2023

Description In the Swedish university system there are external feedback points at 50% and 80% (mock viva) completion, as well as the final public viva voce.
This examination took the form of a public discussion and written feedback.
In this instance I was selected, by Prof Giles Whiteley, as an expert on Ford Madox Ford and modernist studies to review the named work.
Affiliated Organisations Stockholm University
Research Areas Literature
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Chair: Panel 2, Gender and Sexuality Research: Work-in-Progress Afternoon, Edinburgh Napier University, 8 Mar 2023
2023

Description Papers:
Sophie Gerrard: photography, female farmers and landscape
Paul Harkins and Manuella Blackburn (Open University):“Towards a Feminist Historiography of the Fairlight CMI,”includinga short performance
Research Areas Music
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL https://napier-research.worktribe.com/record.jx?recordid=3038950

Podcast interviewee: Censored podcast
2023

Description Appearance as First World War literature expert on the Censored podcast, which discusses books banned in Ireland.

Episode: ‘Dot, dot, dot: Anon., WAAC: The Woman’s Story of the War (1930), Censored podcast, 30 March 2023.
Research Areas Literature
Research Themes Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL https://play.acast.com/s/censored/dot-dot-dot-anon-waac-the-womans-story-of-the-war-1930