Padmini Raymurray

Job Title: Lecturer, Publishing part-time

Email: p.raymurray@napier.ac.uk

Background

Education

Ph.D. in English Literature. University of Edinburgh, 2007. 
M.A.in English Literature. Jadavpur University, Kolkata. 2001.
B.A. (Hons) in English Literature. St Stephen’s College, Delhi University. 1999.

My PhD examined how the concepts of gender and nation were inextricably linked for Byron, and how this was demonstrated in his poetry through strategies of gendered embodiment. While working on my PhD I also worked as a Postgraduate Researcher on The History of the Book in Scotland (http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/hobs.htm), contributing a number of chapters (see below) and assisting in the compilation of its bibliography. I joined Edinburgh Napier University in 2009. My current teaching practice in publishing is informed both by my background in book history, as well as my industry experience both in the UK and in India which includes Seagull Books, Canongate Books, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Ottakars and most recently, Edinburgh University Press.

I  supervise work in the following areas: print culture in the Romantic era; book history; contemporary academic publishing; online technologies and their impact on the publishing industry; the graphic novel.

Publications

Chapters  in books: “The Newspaper”, The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3 (1800-1880). Ed. Bill Bell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
 “Reference”, The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3 (1800-1880). Ed. Bill Bell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
“Religion”, The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3 (1800-1880). Ed. Bill Bell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
“Education”, The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3 (1800-1880). Ed. Bill Bell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
 “Antiquarianism”, The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3 (1800-1880). Ed. Bill Bell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Conference Proceedings

“Paphians and Pugilists, Corinthians and Cyprians”, in Byron and London. Ed. Peter Cochran. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
“Byron as Bibliophile”, in The Reader in History. Eds. Bill Bell and Ross Alloway. Publisher tbc.
Journals:

“Britannia: The Other Woman in Byron’s Life.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Issue 2.1 (Spring 2006).
Conference report, ‘Adapting Byron’, The Byron Journal, Issue 37.1 (Spring 2009)
Conference papers presented:

“Adapting Byron: ‘A Problem, Like All Things’.” Adapting Byron, 4-5 December 2008, University of Manchester.
“ ‘And oh, the little warlike world within!’: Constructions of Masculinity, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.” (Trans)national Identities / Reimagining Communities, University of Bologna. March 12-15, 2008.
“ ‘The tide rising in my alter’d eye’: Water as an agent of change in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.” Literary Geographies, University of Nottingham, July 20-22, 2007.
“ ‘Tis no slight task to write on common things’: Byron’s material world.” Byron and Modernity, University of British Columbia. October 26-28, 2007.
“ ‘My good, my guilt, my weal, my woe’: Byron’s spectacularization of nation.” Romantic Spectacle, University of Roehampton. July 7-9, 2006.
“Paphians and Pugilists, Corinthians and Cyprians.” Byron and London, Nottingham Trent University. April 29th, 2006.
“Byron as bibliophile.” Material Cultures, University of Edinburgh. July 22-25, 2005.
“ ‘Rewards for punctuality, diligence, decorum, and deloused heads’: the juvenile moral literature marke