Imprisonment in British Suffragette Writing

Prof Anne Schwan A.Schwan@napier.ac.uk
Professor

Convict Voices: Women & Prison Writing in the Long 19th Century Jan 1, 2011 - Dec 31, 2011
Convict Voices: Women & Prison Writing in the Long 19th Century investigates 19th century prison writing and other discursive spaces where convict voices could emerge. As prison populations are reaching record levels, researchers and policy-makers ar... Read More about Convict Voices: Women & Prison Writing in the Long 19th Century.

The German Diaspora during World War I: Remembering Internment Camps in Britain and the Commonwealth Jan 1, 2018 - Oct 31, 2019
The project pursues three main aims and objectives:

1. Address desideratum: During the First World War, many communities in Britain and its Empire hosted internment camps for military Prisoners of War and civilian ‘enemy aliens’.

2. Shared comm... Read More about The German Diaspora during World War I: Remembering Internment Camps in Britain and the Commonwealth.

Reading & Writing in Prison Jun 4, 2010 - Jun 5, 2010
The first event of its kind in the UK, this conference on ?Reading and Writing in Prison? seeks to raise the profile of existing research and practice in relation to British prisons and facilitate new dialogues between British researchers and interna... Read More about Reading & Writing in Prison.

Dr David Summers Trust PhD Studentship: 'Slip out of darkness': A Study of Contemporary Queer Scottish Poetry Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2026
This PhD project will synthesise Scottish literary studies, Queer theory and the developing socio-cultural contexts of modern Scottish society, to investigate a range of queer Scottish poets.