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English Programme & Subject Leader; Year Tutor (Level 6/ Year 3)
2008
PhD, University of Lancaster, 2005
MA, University of Western Ontario, 1995
BA, Acadia University, 1994
My published research focuses on the Victorian polymath John Ruskin, particularly in relation to his later personal letters and diaries. I am very much interested in Victorian definitions and manifestations of domesticity and femininity, a pattern reflected in the majority of my conference papers; this focus is migrating towards textiles and texts in the 19th and 20th centuries—considering artefacts, artisans and advice from cultural figures such as Ruskin—but I have not yet published in this area.
British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS), Textile Society, Costume Society
Books
John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and ‘Nonsense Letters’, Oxford: Legenda (imprint of MHRA and Maney), 2008 (forthcoming).
Journeys of a Lifetime: Ruskin’s Continental Tours (exhibition catalogue), with Keith Hanley, Lancaster: Lancaster University, 2008.
Ruskin’s Struggle for Coherence, Rachel Dickinson and Keith Hanley, eds., Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006.
Articles:
‘Theatre’s Heroines and Ruskinian Morality’ in Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture, Anselm Heinrich, Kate Newey and Jeffrey Richards, eds. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2008 (forthcoming).
‘ “A Glass Picture”: A Window into Ruskin’s Aesthetic’ in Ruskin in Perspective: Contemporary Essays, Carmen Casaliggi and Paul March-Russell, eds., Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
‘Thoughts on Collingwood’s Portrait of Ruskin in His Study at Brantwood’, Ruskin Programme Bulletin, 26, April 2001, 12-14.
Reviews:
Ruskin and Social Reform: Ethics and Economics in the Victorian Age by Gill G. Cockram and Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theatre, Science, and Education by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, a joint review in the Journal of Victorian Culture , 2008.
À l’antenne des oracles (Poésie) by Marc Arseneau. Moncton: Les Éditions Perce-Neige, 1992. 60 p. in LittéRéalité, numero spécial: Accent sur la littérature acadienne V.2 (Hiver/Winter 1993-1994), pp. 171-74 [as Rachel Wilson].
Exhibition:
‘Ruskin’s Continental Tours’, co-curated with Keith Hanley at the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, 19 April – 28 September, 2008.
Media Engagement:
Making History on BBC Radio 4, airing 25th November 2008
Conference Organisation:
25-28 Sept., 2008 ‘Ruskin, Venice, and 19th Century Cultural Travel’ at Venice International University and Scuola di San Rocco; co-organised with Prof Keith Hanley, Dr Emma Sdegno and Ms. Lauren Proctor; co-sponsored by The Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University, INCS: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, and The Department of European and Postcolonial Studies of University of Ca’ Foscari Venice. Chaired a session on Ruskin and His Circle.
18-19 July, 2008 ‘Persistent Ruskin – Aesthetics, Education, Social Theory, 1870-1914’ at Lancaster University; co-organised with Prof. Brian Maidment; co-sponsored by the AHRC, Lancaster University’s Ruskin Centre and the University of Salford. Chaired a ‘Special Session’ paper by Tony Pinkney on ‘Ruskin, Morris and the Terraforming of Mars’.
6-7 July, 2007 ‘Disseminating Ruskin’ at Lancaster University; co-organised with Prof. Brian Maidment; co-sponsored by the AHRC, Lancaster University’s Ruskin Centre and the University of Salford. Chaired a session on Ruskinian diaspora to France and Japan.
13 May, 2006 ‘Ruskin and the Idea of Influence’ at the University of Salford; co-organised with Prof. Brian Maidment; co-sponsored by the AHRC, Lancaster University’s Ruskin Centre and the University of Salford. Chaired a session on Ruskin collectors and collections.
21-23 July 2005, ‘Victorian Life Writing: Sources and Resources’ at Lancaster University; helped Prof. Keith Hanley and Ms. Lindsey Walker to organise; Chaired a session on Ruskin and a session on autobiography.
6-8 Sept., 2001, ‘Victorian Performances’ at Lancaster University; co-organised with Dr Kate Newey (now Professor at Birmingham); co-sponsored by the British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) and Lancaster University.
Conference Papers
‘ “How the Fairies teach silkworms to spin”: Ruskinian Textile Production’ at ‘Heritage and the Victorians: Culture, History, Society’, St Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden, 26-28 June, 2008 (invited).
‘Report on the AHRC Project “John Ruskin and Cultural Travel”’ (co-presented with Keith Hanley), Ruskin Seminar, Lancaster University, 18 October, 2007 (invited).
‘Making Sense of Nonsense: Editing Ruskin's Baby-talk’ at ‘Editing the Victorians’, The Centre for Textual Scholarship, DeMontfort University, Leicester, 28 September, 2007.
‘Mapping Ruskin’s Travels’ at ‘Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel’, The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, 19-23 July, 2007.
‘ “A Glass Picture”: A Window into Ruskin's Aesthetic’, Ruskin Seminar, Lancaster University, 26 October, 2006 (invited).
‘Travelling with Ruskin – a discussion’, Ruskin Seminar, Lancaster University, 4 May, 2006 (invited).
‘Ruskinian Moral Authority and Pantomime’s Ideal at ‘The Victorian Theatre and the Visual Arts’, Lancaster University, 13-15 July 2006. Woman’ (invited re-working of ‘So Much Power’, below) [I also chaired a session on Symbolist theatre].
‘ “So Much Power with the Public”: Pantomime’s Ideal Woman in Ruskin’s Construction of Moral Authority’ at ‘Victorian Life Writing: Sources and Resources’, Lancaster University, 21-23 July 2005.
‘Solidifying the Self: The Mnemonic in Ruskin’s Correspondence to Joan Severn’ at ‘Yours Sincerely?: Letter Writing as an Auto/Biographical Genre’, University of Manchester, 20 September, 2002.
‘Embracing Tiger and Returning to Mountain: Reflections on Learning and Teaching to Mountain’ at Tall Tales [HE teaching practice conference]., Lancaster University, 4 July 2002 (invited).
‘Brantwood and the Domestic in John Ruskin’s Correspondence to Joan Severn’ a public lecture to The Friends of Ruskin’s Brantwood, Coniston, 20 April, 2002 (invited).
The Re[member]ed Self: Shaping Ruskin’s Identity’ at ‘Memory and Textualities’, a post graduate conference, the University of Stirling, 8-9 March, 2002
‘ “I am quite bewildered about etties”: John’s Letters to Joan’, Ruskin Seminar, Lancaster University, 15 February, 2001 (invited).
‘The Performance of a Lifetime: Autobiography and the Ruskin-Severn Correspondence’ at ‘Victorian Performances’ international conference of BAVS, Lancaster University, 6-8 September, 2001.
‘John Ruskin’s Letters to Joan Severn’ at St. Deiniol’s Victorian Studies Colloquium, Hawarden, 2-4 March, 2001 (invited).
‘A woman's home is her castle: Models of (Non-)Marriage in Christina Rossetti’s Prose’ at ‘Victorian Marriage Colloquium’, at the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints, 18 November, 2000.
‘ “And the Kettle Sang on the Fire”: Tea Ceremonies and Representations of Female Identity in Christina Rossetti’s Prose’ at ‘Victorian Cultures’ international conference of BAVS, University of Hertfordshire, 7-9 September, 2000.
‘ “Look round this English room of yours”: Ruskin and the Transformation of Brantwood’ at ‘John Ruskin: The Brantwood Years’, Lancaster University, 18-20 July, 2000.
‘ “The Cottage Bore Witness to her Good Taste”: Women, Identity and Domestic Aesthetic in Christina Rossetti’s Prose’ at ‘The HistFest of the Millennium’ interdisciplinary postgraduate history and culture conference, Lancaster University, 6 May, 2000.
‘Heart of the Home: The Feminized Domestic in Ruskin’s Stones’, a Ruskin Seminar at Lancaster University, 23 March, 2000 (invited).
“The Evolution of a Feminised Domestic Aesthetic in the Works of John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti and the Arts and Crafts Movement”, Victorian Seminar, Lancaster University, 22 November, 1999.
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