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Education:

• PhD in English Literature, Gender, Nation and Embodiment in Byron’s Poetry, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 2008

My doctoral research investigated 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.

Supervisors: Dr Bill Bell, Dr Tim Milnes
Examiner: Dr Alan Rawes, University of Manchester

• MA in English Literature, Jadavpur University, 2001
• BA in English Literature, St. Stephen’s College, 1999

Awards:

• Residential Postgraduate Bursary, Literary Geographies, 2007.
• Travel Grant, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, 2005.
• Foundation Grant, British Federation of Women Graduates, 2004-2005.
• Faculty Studentship, University of Edinburgh, 2002—2004.

Teaching Experience:

• Part-time Lecturer
  Culture, Literature and Publishing, School of Arts & Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University, October 2008-present.
  Teaching: An introductory module on Book History, and another module on the Fiction Market which explores the world of contemporary fiction publishing both in the UK and internationally.
  Responsibilities include designing and giving lectures, planning, assigning and marking assessments, as well as supervising MSc and PhD dissertations.

• Tutor
  Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 2002-2006.
  First year courses taught: ‘Problems of Reading’, ‘Literature & History: the Renaissance’.
  Second year courses taught: ‘Writing and Revolution 1760-1830’ and ‘Revolution in Writing, 1890-1939’.
  Responsibilities included teaching, marking essays and writing student evaluations.
• Tutor
  School of Lifelong Learning, University of Edinburgh, 2006.
  Non credit course ‘Introduction to Indian Cinema’.
  This course was initiated, designed and taught by me–the first such course on Indian cinema to be taught at the School of Lifelong Learning.

Research Employment Experience:

Postgraduate Researcher, The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3 (1800-1880), The Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh, 2004-2005.
• Conducted research and wrote entries on newspapers, educational and religious publishing, encyclopaedias and reference works of the period.
• Assisted in the compilation of the bibliography.
• Attended and contributed to symposiums in 2004 and 2005.

Publications:

Essays 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 In 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 market in 19th century Scotland.” SHARP 2005 Navigating Texts and Contexts, Dalhousie University.
• “Which way is Romanticism?” Romanticism, History, Historicism, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. June 22-24, 2004.
• “Learning lessons in Xanadu: exploring the pedagogical potential of hypertext.” Questioning Periods, University of Oxford. June 4, 2004.
• “More in words than I can teach’: The impact of the anthology on English Studies.” English: The Condition of the Subject, Institute of English Studies, University of London. July 17-19, 2003.
• “Anthologising Romanticism.” New Scholarship in Book History and Print Culture: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Toronto. October 4-5, 2002.
• “Under the Sign of the Ship (John Murray II).” Literary London, Cambridge Project for the Book Trust. September 13, 2002.

Other relevant experience:

• Elected Member, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 2006-present.
• Bibliographer, SHARP News, 2003-2005.
• Works-in-Progress committee member, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 2002-2003.
• Co-organiser, The Versatile Text: New Histories of the Book, a Book History Postgraduate Student Network conference, 2002.