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Orange is the New Black and cultural representations of women’s Imprisonment.

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2015, April)
Orange is the New Black and cultural representations of women’s Imprisonment. Paper presented at Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada
No abstract available.

Convict Voices: Women, Class and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England

Book
Schwan, A. (2014)
Convict Voices: Women, Class and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England. University of New Hampshire Press
In this lively study of the development and transformation of voices of female offenders in nineteenth-century England, Anne Schwan analyzes a range of colorful sources, inclu...

'Painted and attired even unto death': representing the female offender in the Manning Murder Case of 1849.

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2014, March)
'Painted and attired even unto death': representing the female offender in the Manning Murder Case of 1849. Paper presented at Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now, Durham University
No abstract available.

Crime and Punishment

Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2014)
Crime and Punishment. In J. John (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199799558-0087
The study of Victorian crime and punishment is a rich area of research that has attracted the interest not only of literary scholars but also of social historians, legal histo...

Review of article-Cristina Hanganu-Bresch’s and Carol Berkenkotter’s “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement.

Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2013)
Review of article-Cristina Hanganu-Bresch’s and Carol Berkenkotter’s “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement. Journal of Literature and Science, 6, 82-83. https://doi.org/10.12929/jls.06.1.08
No abstract available. Item is a review of the following journal article - Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter, “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Ac...

Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of Low Life

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2013, September)
Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of Low Life. Paper presented at Lesser Victorians: Beyond the Canon in Victorian Fiction, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin
No abstract available.

Female criminality in cross-national perspective: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2013, June)
Female criminality in cross-national perspective: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick. Paper presented at Joint Conference of the British, North American and Australasian Associations for Victorian Studies: The Global and The Local, Venice, Italy
No abstract available.

‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway

Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2013)
‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway. Women's History Review, 22(1), 148-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2012.724917
This article discusses the life and imprisonment of the largely unknown middle-class artist and suffrage activist Katie Gliddon and analyzes her extensive prison diary, secret...

'Woman’s Wrongs’: gender, free love and the law in Susan Willis Fletcher’s "Twelve Months in an English Prison" (1884)

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2012, June)
'Woman’s Wrongs’: gender, free love and the law in Susan Willis Fletcher’s "Twelve Months in an English Prison" (1884). Paper presented at Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928), Newcastle University, UK
No abstract available.

Reading about crime and punishment, prison volunteering and employability for literary studies graduates

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2012, May)
Reading about crime and punishment, prison volunteering and employability for literary studies graduates. Paper presented at The Higher Education Academy Arts and Humanities Annual Conference, Glasgow, Scotland
No abstract available.

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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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Marginal perspectives: a diasporic body of cinematic works

2024 - date
Ms Sana Bilgrami | Director of Studies: Prof Kerstin Stutterheim

The Role of Prison Museums in Public Culture: The Case of Peterhead Prison Museum

2023 - date
Judith Spaargaren | Director of Studies: Dr Craig Wight | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Schwan

Writing War, Writing Internment - Interrogating the Creative Outputs of People Experiencing Life in Closed Settings

2022 - date
Lisa Aref | Director of Studies: Dr Andrew Frayn | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Schwan

Mad, Bad, and Wanton: A reclamation of sexual agency in real female figures in historical fiction

2022 - date
Noelle Harrison | Director of Studies: Prof Anne Schwan | Second Supervisor: Dr Dave Hook

Electronic Music Performance and the Perception of Audiences

2021 - date
Euan Pattie | Director of Studies: Dr Paul Harkins | Second Supervisor: Prof Chris Atton

British Prisoners of War, 1914-1919: Prisoner of War camp culture revealed through camp periodicals and related literary and artistic media

2021 - date
David Revell | Director of Studies: Prof Anne Schwan | Second Supervisor: Dr Andrew Frayn

Composition and identity

2020 - date
David Paton | Director of Studies: Dr John Hails | Second Supervisor: Dr Dave Hook

Exploring the history and cultural representation of capital punishment in Scotland

2019 - 2020
Simon McFadden | Director of Studies: Prof Anne Schwan | Second Supervisor: Dr Katrina Morrison

'The dreadful tides of a new and incomprehensible life': rural modernity and watchfulness in early twentieth-century Scottish women's writing

2016 - date
Helena Duncan | Director of Studies: Dr Scott Lyall | Second Supervisor: Dr Tara Thomson

Unpacking the creative practices of a landscape photographer

2016 - date
Neil McCoubrey | Director of Studies: Dr Alistair Scott | Second Supervisor: Dr Alexander Supartono
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Gender and Sexuality Research at Edinburgh Napier University

Merchiston Campus, room: MER_H11
6 March 2024

CAMC research talk

Merchiston H14 and online
14 February 2024

CAMC research talk: gender and space in Iranian cinema

Merchiston E13
24 October 2023

Research talk by Dr Adrian Wisnicki: ‘Collaboration Across Disciplines and Cultures with One More Voice’

Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, with online joining option via Teams.
8 February 2023

Research talk by Dr David Sorfa: 'Can We Take Existentialism Seriously? Tony Hancock and The Rebel (1961)'

Merchiston Campus, E14
2 November 2022

Research Talk by Dr Arianna Introna, ‘Crip Enchantments: Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Scottish Writing and Culture’

Merchiston Campus E14
11 October 2022

Dark Tourism Research Symposium: Memory, Pilgrimage and the Digital Realm

Craiglockhart Campus
4 May 2022

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