18/12/2015 “Anxious Minds: Fostering Mental Health in Academia (University of Leicester)
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I'm Reader in Women's & Gender Studies at Liverpool John Moores University and the creator of The New Academic. I specialise in literary and cultural histories of women, gender, and feminism in Britain from the Victorian period to the present day, with particular interests in the gendered histories of widowhood, feminist historiography, and contemporary women’s writing. I’m currently working on a book called The Widow: A Literary & Cultural History (Liverpool University Press), and I’m the creator of the War Widows’ Stories project. I have a passion for participatory methods, working with people outside of academy, helping them tell their stories, and bringing those stories as well as my research to a wider audience. When I’m not working, I can usually be found outdoors, usually in the Peak District, running and walking with my dogs, or at my favourite bouldering wall.
Women On Their Own: Widows in Britain, Now & Then
As part of my role as one of this year’s New Generation Thinkers, I’ve recorded an edition of BBC Radio 3’s The Essay! “Women on Their Own: Widows in Britain, Now & Then” will be broadcast on 11 November 2015 at 10.45PM, and you can listen anytime after this by visiting BBC iPlayer. [iframe http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ns10j 900 […]
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Big Issue in the North: New Generation Thinkers
If you live in the glorious North, make sure you grab a copy of the latest Big Issue in the North. It features interviews with BBC New Generation Thinkers Sandeep Parmar, Catherine Fletcher, and me.
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From Where You Stand: Stories of Academia
From the day I launched The New Academic in 2012 to the moment I’m writing this post, my website has had 120,000+ visitors, and its number of monthly visitors has reached almost 7,000. It’s not much by some people’s standards, but it’s a whole lot more than I ever thought it would be. Its content […]
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[News] New Generation Thinkers 2015
It’s official: I’ve been lucky enough to have been selected as one of this year’s New Generation Thinkers by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. And of course this wouldn’t be my blog if I didn’t share a few lines on the process that led to last week’s melodramatically long-embargoed announcement […]
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Free Thinking: New Generation Thinkers 2015 Launch at the Hay Festival
I’m very excited to say that I’ve recorded my first ever radio broadcast, and you’ll be able to listen to this edition of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking on Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 10PM. This edition of the programme introduces four of this year’s New Generation Thinkers, including me. [iframe http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05w8135 1050 1300]
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[Conference Paper] The Real Thing: Objects, Materiality, & Authenticity in Neo-Victorian Fiction
This is the Prezi for a paper I gave at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Toronto in May 2015. It’s the beginnings of an article on the same topic that I hope to finish and submit for peer review this summer.
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[Events] Women Writing Pleasure
3 July 2015, Liverpool John Moores University. I’m pleased to say that I’m co-organising this conference with two of my department’s PhD students: Chloe Holland and Krystina Osborne. Take a look at this post if you’d like to know more about the conference.
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Essay Preparation
This lecture prepares students for the first essay on Literary & Cultural Theory. Next to recapping some basic guidelines (with the help of pet videos), it also tries to explain some of the new challenges students might face when writing an essay which incorporates theory.
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Posthumanism
This is an introductory lecture to posthumanism, and the post contains the Prezi I designed as part of my second-year Literary & Cultural Theory module.
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Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media, & Employability
I delivered this invited talk as part of an event called The Digital Academic, organised by Jobs.ac.uk and Piirus and held on 23 March 2015 at the University of Warwick. The aim of this session was to introduce ECRs and PhDs to how social media can help your academic profile, skills, and career prospects, but […]
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AHRC/ BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers
I had been meaning to apply for the AHRC/ BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers initiative for a couple of years now, and last December I finally decided to take the time and fill in the application form. I proposed a programme on the history of widows in Britain, and explained the wider relevance of […]
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[Publication] Feminism’s Family Drama: Female Genealogies, Feminist Historiography, & Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women
I’m really pleased that my article about feminist history and mother-daughter relationships is out now in Feminist Theory and available to read for free as an “online first” publication. Below you can find the full reference for the print version of this piece, and the page on which you can access the full-text article.
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Keep Calm & Take Time Off: Being Ill at Work
When you’re ill, do you keep calm and carry on, or do you keep calm and take time off? I’ve just come to the end of two weeks sick leave. Shingles seriously knocked me out, even though I noticed it and got anti-viral medication on the very first day the rash appeared. It was the first time […]
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[Commentary] “Widows Are Wonderful” (1917): A Musical Find from the First World War
While researching the introduction to my book on the widow in British literature and culture, I stumbled across a tune from the First World War which illustrates perfectly some of the attributes which have rendered the figure of the widowed woman a popular and loaded one here in Britain, not only since the Victorian period […]
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[Publications] Feminisms, Sex and the Body
From Mary Wollstonecraft’s call for chastity as a universal rather than a female virtue in A vindication of the rights of woman (1792), through nineteenth and early-twentieth century writings on the commodification of women in marriage and prostitution and campaigns for rational dress, to fights for women’s reproductive rights and sexual liberation in the 1960s and 1970s, the female body and female sexuality as sites of oppression and empowerment have long occupied a central place of concern in feminist theory and practice. In the new millennium, as in previous decades, this interest continues to engender productively diverse and conflicting, as well as often conflicted, responses by feminist scholars across disciplines whose work reflects upon and attempts to conceptualise women’s sexual bodies within the cultural and political landscapes of the twenty-first century.
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Being a Good PhD Supervisor: A Fine Art or Plain & Simple?
I’ve been thinking for a while about writing a post on my relatively quick transition from PhD student to PhD supervisor, mainly to reflect on what is important to me regarding my new responsibilities and based on my own and my peers’ experiences, but also to think more generally about what the common problems in […]
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