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Femicide, Perpetrator Narratives and the Challenge of Restorative Justice: Em Strang's Quinn (2023)

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2024, August)
Femicide, Perpetrator Narratives and the Challenge of Restorative Justice: Em Strang's Quinn (2023). Paper presented at European Society of the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Conan Doyle and Mormonism: Global Contexts for A Study in Scarlet

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2024, April)
Conan Doyle and Mormonism: Global Contexts for A Study in Scarlet. Paper presented at Global Conan Doyle Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland

Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen

Book Chapter
Gray, P., & Schwan, A. (2022)
Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen. In A. Schwan, & T. Thomson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (105-128). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11886-9_7
This chapter considers public arts and humanities scholarship and practice in the context of penal institutions, with a focus on women’s prisons and film-making. It argues for...

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...

'Criminal Voice', Gender and (Sexual) Violence in Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2022, September)
'Criminal Voice', Gender and (Sexual) Violence in Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project. Paper presented at European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany

Intercultural Encounters in First World War Internment Camps

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2022, June)
Intercultural Encounters in First World War Internment Camps. Paper presented at MLA International Symposium, Glasgow, UK

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
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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