Edinburgh Napier University

How to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the birth of the prison

Book

Schwan, A., & Shapiro, S. (2011)

How to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the birth of the prison. Pluto Press

The Limitations of a Somatics of Resistance: Sexual Performativity and Gender Dissidence in Dickens's Dombey and Son

Journal Article

Schwan, A. (2005)

The Limitations of a Somatics of Resistance: Sexual Performativity and Gender Dissidence in Dickens's Dombey and Son. Critical Survey, 17(2), 92-106. https://doi.org/10.3167/001115705781004514

This essay considers some of the implications of a critical turn from a concern with a 'political technology of the body' in the Foucauldian sense to one with embodied micropr...

When feminism collides with the politics of difference: the pitfalls of progressive filmmaking.

Book

Schwan, A. (2003)

When feminism collides with the politics of difference: the pitfalls of progressive filmmaking. In CorpoRealities: In(ter)ventions in an Omnipresent Subject, 275-289. Koenigstein/Taunus: Helmer

Disciplining female bodies: Foucault and the imprisonment of women.

Book

Schwan, A. (2001)

Disciplining female bodies: Foucault and the imprisonment of women. In T. Dorfler, & C. Globisch (Eds.), Postmodern Practices. Beitrage zu einer vergehenden epocheLit Verlag

Dr David Summers Trust PhD Studentship: 'Slip out of darkness': A Study of Contemporary Queer Scottish Poetry

2021 - 2026

This PhD project will synthesise Scottish literary studies, Queer theory and the developing socio-cultural contexts of modern Scottish society, to investigate a range of queer Scottish poets.

Funder: ENU Development Trust | Value: £15,195

The German Diaspora during World War I: Remembering Internment Camps in Britain and the Commonwealth

2018 - 2019

The project pursues three main aims and objectives: 1. Address desideratum: During the First World War, many communities in Britain and its Empire hosted internment camps for military Prisoners of Wa...

Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £28,714

Convict Voices: Women & Prison Writing in the Long 19th Century

2011 - 2011

Convict Voices: Women & Prison Writing in the Long 19th Century investigates 19th century prison writing and other discursive spaces where convict voices could emerge. As prison populations are reachi...

Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £33,240

Reading & Writing in Prison

2010 - 2010

The first event of its kind in the UK, this conference on ‘Reading and Writing in Prison’ seeks to raise the profile of existing research and practice in relation to British prisons and facilitate new...

Funder: British Association of Victorian Studies | Value: £200

Imprisonment in British Suffragette Writing

2009 - 2010

Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £500

Nineteenth-century girls and authorship: adolescent writing, appropriation, and its representation in literature, c 1860-1900

2015 - 2019

My PhD research focuses on the lived experience and literary representation...

Dr Lois Burke | Director of Studies: Prof Anne Schwan | Second Supervisor: Dr Sarah Artt

H Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy: a revisionist approach to Haggard's African fiction

2006 - 2017

Dr Kate Simpson | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Bashabi Fraser

'A Night at Stobs': AHRC-funded Performances about WWI Internment

17 June 2018

A series of AHRC-funded performances will take place at venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Hawick in June. Produced by a multi-disciplinary team at Edinburgh Napier, and featuring Music and Acting stud...

Published article 'Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black

11 May 2016

Published article 'Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black'. Television & New Media (Sage, 2016).

Research Roundtable on 'Global Atrocities in Literature and Culture' (online)

Online via WebEx

8 December 2021

Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Maja Brandt Andreasen (U of Strathclyde), 'Just Sex? The Discursive Construction of Sexual Violence in Internet Humour about #MeToo' AND Amy King (Edinburgh Napier U), '"Tied up in knots" - Ethical Tensions in my Research of Linguistic Violence on Twitter'

Online

8 June 2021

Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Professor Nathalie Jaeck (U Bordeaux Montaigne), 'Dickens's Redefinition of the Rhetoric of Landscape'

Online

18 May 2021

Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Dr Alice Kelly (U of Oxford/U of Sussex), 'Commemorative Modernisms - Women Writers, Death and the First World War'

27 April 2021

Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Dr Maisha Wester (Indiana U, Bloomington/Sheffield U), 'New World Monsters for an Old World Problem - Redefining Terror in Black Diasporic Gothic Literature'

17 March 2021

Visiting Researcher: The Artificial Intelligence of the Victorian Novel

Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Room B2 (3-4.30pm)

15 May 2018

Lead Organiser 'Crime Fiction(s): Victorian and Neo-Victorian Narratives of Crime and Punishment'

Merchiston Campus

26 April 2018

Invited talk "Crime, Punishment and Social Justice: From Oliver Twist to the Suffragettes." Kilgraston School (Royal Society of Edinburgh Schools Outreach Programme)

Perth, Kilgraston School

26 October 2017

Invited talk "Books or Prisons? Reflections on Literature and Social Justice." Merchiston Castle School (Royal Society of Edinburgh Schools Outreach Programme)

Edinburgh, Merchiston Castle School

24 January 2017

International Prison Education Day

HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow

12 October 2016