'A Night at Stobs': AHRC-funded Performances about WWI Internment
Jun 18, 2018
Summary A series of AHRC-funded performances will take place at venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Hawick in June.
Produced by a multi-disciplinary team at Edinburgh Napier, and featuring Music and Acting students and graduates, the shows will bring the history of WWI internment to life in accessible yet thought-provoking ways. The performances will be followed by a Q&A. The project already received some coverage in newspapers and the BBC in February (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-43210547).
Details on the shows and how to book tickets are below. Updates are also available via Twitter: @anightatstobsPeople Iain Davie
Andrew Frayn
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News (23)
Writing the First World War: Conflict and Memory, 1914-1930
Sep 21, 2016
Summary The University’s Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW) runs a series of research seminars on Wednesday afternoons throughout the teaching trimesters. These seminars are designed to approach literary issues within an interdisciplinary context, and anyone interested in the topics is invited to join us for some exciting and interesting talks. People Andrew Frayn Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Publishing Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Publishes chapter in collection Mapping Across Academia
Jun 30, 2016
Summary Publishes chapter in collection Mapping Across Academia People Andrew Frayn Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Published article 'Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black
May 12, 2016
Summary Published article 'Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black'. Television & New Media (Sage, 2016). People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
publishes monograph Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing About Prison in Nineteenth-Century England
Dec 18, 2014
Summary publishes monograph Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing About Prison in Nineteenth-Century England (University of New Hampshire Press). http://www.upne.com/1611686715.html People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Invited to become Research Assessor for the Carnegie Trust
Aug 15, 2014
Summary Invited to become Research Assessor for the Carnegie Trust People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
completes research trip on university-prison partnerships
Jul 10, 2014
Summary completes research trip on university-prison partnerships in US, with visits to Albion Correctional Facility (New York), Monroe County Correctional Facility (New York) and Larimer County Jail (Colorado), and the 1-week/60-hour training course 'Inside Out' (Philadelphia). Funded through the University's Research Funding Competition. People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Delivers Paper on Representations of the Female Offender in the Manning Murder Case of 1849 at 'Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now' Conference at Durham University
Mar 8, 2014
Summary Delivers Paper on Representations of the Female Offender in the Manning Murder Case of 1849 at 'Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now' Conference at Durham University People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Peer-reviewed, invited publication "Crime and Punishment"
Jan 15, 2014
Summary Peer-reviewed, invited publication "Crime and Punishment" in "Victorian Literature" section of Oxford Bibliographies, ed. Juliet John. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/ (subscription only) People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Delivers paper on 'Frederick William Robinsonand the Literary Tradition of "Low Life"' at the conference 'Lesser Victorians: Beyond the Canon in Victorian Fiction'.
Sep 23, 2013
Summary Delivers paper on 'Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of "Low Life"' at the conference 'Lesser Victorians: Beyond the Canon in Victorian Fiction'. People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Obtains book contract with the University Press of New England/New Hampshire University
Sep 10, 2013
Summary Obtains book contract with the University Press of New England/New Hampshire University Press for monograph on Convict Voices (forthcoming in the series Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies autumn 2014) People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Anne Schwan has been appointed as a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland.
Feb 26, 2013
Summary Anne Schwan has been appointed as a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland. People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Article publication in peer-reviewed journal Women's History Review
Feb 26, 2013
Summary Article publication in peer-reviewed journal Women's History Review 22.1 (2013), pp. 148-67: “‘Bless the Gods for My Pencils and Paper’: Katie Gliddon’s Prison Diary,
Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Suffragettes at Holloway”.People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Research on imprisoned suffragette helps identify Walter Sickert painting
Aug 14, 2012
Summary Research on imprisoned suffragette helps identify Walter Sickert painting People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Conference talk at the Higher Education Academy's Arts and Humanities Annual Conference
May 8, 2012
Summary Conference talk at the Higher Education Academy's Arts and Humanities Annual Conference People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Hadeel Azhar has joined CLAW as a fully funded PhD student
Feb 1, 2012
Summary Hadeel Azhar has joined CLAW as a fully funded PhD student sponsored the government of Saudi Arabia. Hadeel will be working on women in Victorian poetry. People Linda Dryden
Anne SchwanOrg Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Michelle Evans joins CLAW as a research student
Dec 10, 2011
Summary Michelle Evans joins CLAW as a research student. Her area of study is domestic abuse of women. People Linda Dryden
Anne SchwanOrg Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Marie Wicks at the University of Mississippi is applying for a Fulbright Scholarship to work towards a Research Masters on the David Livingstone Archives
Sep 15, 2011
Summary Marie Wicks at the University of Mississippi is applying for a Fulbright Scholarship to work towards a Research Masters on the David Livingstone Archives. Ms Wicks would work with Professor Dryden and Dr Schwan. People Linda Dryden
Anne SchwanOrg Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Book review by Anne Schwan published in Contemporary Women's Writing
Jul 28, 2011
Summary Book review by Anne Schwan published in Contemporary Women's Writing People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
CLAW member co-authors book on Foucault's Discipline and Punish
Jul 15, 2011
Summary CLAW member co-authors book on Foucault's Discipline and Punish People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing