Postgraduate researcher Lauren Pearl Holmes will present a paper entitled “‘Had I opportunity but to borrow some of the author’s wit:’ Anne Bradstreet and the Sermons of John Woodbridge” at this year’s “Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes: New Approaches to Early Modern Sermons in Manuscript” conference, held 3-5th October at Harvard Divinity School and the […]
We are happy to report that Salford is well-represented at this year’s American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), held at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick on 17 – 21 June. The theme of the conference is ‘Embracing Change, Navigating Uncertainty: Ireland and New Beginnings’. Caroline Magennis will be presenting a plenary talk entitled ‘Writing the Body and […]
The South African Modernism team led by Jade Munslow Ong and featuring Hannah Helm, Emma Barnes, Katie Barnes and Sanja Nivesjö have continued their collaborative activities in introducing their research to students in local colleges in Greater Manchester. In recent months the team had the pleasure of collaborating with Burnley College in Lancashire to create […]
Hannah Helm, who has just recently defended her doctoral thesis, has published her third peer-reviewed journal article. The article is called ‘”She was no taller than your thumb. So she was called Thumbelina”: Gender, Disability, and Visual Forms in Hans Christian Andersen’s “Thumbelina” (1835)”, appears in the Journal of Gender, Ethnic, and Cross-Cultural Studies, 2.1 (2023), […]
Dr Emma Barnes is organising an event with the Manchester community group Southern Voices entitled ‘Exploring Legacies of Empire: Perspectives from the Global South‘ on 28th June at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford. The event is directed at 16-24 year olds and a packed programme will feature our new Professor Jackie Kay as a […]
Salford will be well represented at the 21st conference of the Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses (Spanish Association for Irish Studies) at the University of Valencia. Three papers have been accepted – from Reader in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature Dr Caroline Magennis and two PhD students, Elsie Unsworth and Katie Barnes. Caroline will present from her work on […]
We are delighted to report more publishing success from Hannah Helm, who has recently placed her article “My Dear Mute Foundling with Those Telling Eyes of Yours”: Female Agency, Visual Forms, and the Disabled Gaze in “The Little Mermaid” in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Congratulations Hannah! You can view the abstract […]
We are delighted to announce the latest English Research Seminar, taking place in person on Wednesday 7 December between 2:30 and 4:30 on the University of Salford campus. Unfortunately Caroline Magennis will now not appear due to illness. If you wish to attend as a member of the public, please contact Scott Thurston on S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk. […]
(this is a lightly-edited version of the article which appeared on the University’s intranet, written by Loughlan Campbell) Qudsia Akhtar, (3rd year AHRC funded doctoral researcher in Creative Writing) has had her satirical piece ‘My Dad is A Terrorist’ highly commended by the renowned Forward Prizes panel and is featured in The Forward Book of Poetry 2023. […]
Hannah Helm, one of our PhD students, was awarded funding from Santander to undertake research in Anaheim, California in the Walt Disney archives. Hannah’s interdisciplinary, intersectional PhD project investigates feminist, anti-sanist, and anti-ableist representations of femininity, madness, and disability in nineteenth-century children’s literature and Disney live-action film adaptation (2010-2019). Hannah writes: In December 2021, I […]