We are overjoyed to announce that our PhD candidate Valerie Waterhouse has won the inaugural Kitty Kelley dissertation fellowship, worth $25,000! Valerie received the award for her research on the often-overlooked Northern working-class writer, Malachi Whitaker (1895–1976). Her thesis comprises a literary biography of Malachi Whitaker (1895–1976), with a critical reflection on biographical processes. The […]
We are delighted to report that on Wednesday 11 June we held our annual research event at the Friends Meeting House in central Manchester. We had eight presenters throughout the day – in panels of two – with a 50:50 balance between our postgraduate researchers and staff researchers, and a keen and engaged audience. As […]
PhD researcher Xsara Helmi recently presented at the transdisciplinary conference Sacred Arts 2025: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual, hosted by the London Arts-Based Research Centre at the University of Oxford, as part of the Sacred Soundscapes section. Her paper, The Numinous Ear: Autistic Listening and Aural Diversity as a Gateway to the Divine and Sublime, […]
Postgraduate researcher Lucy Power will be speaking about her research into writers’ groups with a talk at Chorlton Library as part of the Manchester Festival of Libraries on Thursday 5th June from 6-8pm. Lucy’s presentation is based on her experience with editing the anthology The Writers’ Table which emerged from the Chorlton Writers’ Café, run […]
We are delighted to confirm that postgraduate researcher Elsie Unsworth will be speaking about her research at the International Postgraduate Conference on Irish Studies in Prague this September. The theme of the conference will be ‘Voices from the Margins: Ireland Seen and Unseen’. Elsie is undertaking research on contemporary Irish folklore and the ways that […]
We are delighted to report that postgraduate researcher Alex Herod has just published her first academic article in the journal Studies in the Fantastic. The piece is entitled ‘Survival and Recovery: Addiction and the Therapeutic Potential of Horror Writing.’ The publication came about from Alex’s presentation at the Horror Studies Now conference at Northumbria University […]
We are delighted to announce Lauren Pearl Holmes’ latest publication which has appeared as a post on the Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS) blog (reviewed by Dr Anne James of the University of Regina). The post is entitled ‘[T]o prevent [thei]r being guilty of like wickedness:” Proto-sentimentalism in Benjamin Wadsworth’s sermon on Judges 5, […]
“COVID-19 and the Slow Death of Interdisciplinarity in the Practice and Teaching of American Studies,” a roundtable panel formed of University of Salford postgraduate researcher Lauren Pearl Holmes, University of Manchester postgraduate researcher Heena Hussain, and University of Salford undergraduate student and qualified primary and secondary school teacher Charlotte Stevenson, has been awarded £5,000 from […]
Lauren Pearl Holmes (University of Salford) and guest speaker Heena Hussain (University of Manchester) presented the seminar “American Studies: Then and Now” on Wednesday 04 December 2024. The seminar considered American Studies’ long understanding that histories and historiographies of American society and culture represent an attempt to impose an ordered narrative on its national origin […]