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Introduction: Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities

Book Chapter
Schwan, A., & Thomson, T. (2022)
Introduction: Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities. In A. Schwan, & T. Thomson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (1-8). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11886-9_1
This chapter introduces some key concepts and critical debates in digital and public humanities. Emphasis is placed on the multiplicity of “publics” that the collection engage...

The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities

Book
Schwan, A., & Thomson, T. (Eds.)
(2022). The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11886-9
This collection seeks to bring together some of the most recent international scholarship and developments in the interdisciplinary fields of digital and public humanities. Al...

Mixed National Allegiances?: Cross-Cultural Encounters, Patriotism and Identity in First World War Internment Camp Newspapers

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2021, July)
Mixed National Allegiances?: Cross-Cultural Encounters, Patriotism and Identity in First World War Internment Camp Newspapers. Paper presented at Enemy Encounters, Cardiff (Online

Prisoner of War Camp Periodicals

Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (in press)
Prisoner of War Camp Periodicals. In M. Demoor, C. Van Dijck, & B. Van Puymbroeck (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
A case study of internment camp newspaper Stobsiade, contextualised in an overview of First World War internment camp periodicals.

German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade

Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2020)
German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade. In C. Westall, & M. Kelly (Eds.), Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice (41-57). Abingdon: Routledge
No abstract available.

Carpenter, Mary

Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2020)
Carpenter, Mary. In L. Scholl (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_178-1
Nineteenth-century reformer Mary Carpenter (1807–1877) established an international profile as prolific author and public speaker with a focus on educational and penal reform....

Creativity Behind the Barbed Wire: Irony, Humour and Masculinity in the Internment Camp Newspaper ‘Stobsiade’ (1915-1919)

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2019, April)
Creativity Behind the Barbed Wire: Irony, Humour and Masculinity in the Internment Camp Newspaper ‘Stobsiade’ (1915-1919). Presented at Professorial Lecture, Edinburgh Napier University

Representing Women in Prison

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A., & Gray, P. (2019, March)
Representing Women in Prison. Paper presented at Scottish Universities-Prisons Network Conference: ‘Empowering, Linking, Making'

'A Night at Stobs'

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2018, November)
'A Night at Stobs'. Presented at The Internment Research Centre (IRC) opening
Presentation on the occasion of the Internment Research Centre (IRC) opening, Hawick, Scotland

‘A Night at Stobs’ and the Politics of Commemoration: Between the Local and the Global

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2018, August)
‘A Night at Stobs’ and the Politics of Commemoration: Between the Local and the Global. Paper presented at 81st Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS
Paper presented at 81st Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS), Lead Panel on Anniversary Capital, Bangor, Wales

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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

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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