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Alexis completed her doctorate at Oxford University, and has co-edited Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies since 1995.
She has been principal investigator on the 'Cross-Media Practices in the 1920s and 1930s' project researching the role of authors in the early days of writing for the radio and for film. The project was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. Vincent L. Barnett and Alexis Weedon Elinor Glyn in Hollywood, Author, Filmmaker and Businesswoman, is a forthcoming book from the project.
She has written on British book publishing since 1800 and is a specialist in the use of quantitative methods in the study of the industry. She has a chapter in Blackwell's Companion to Book History on the topic and a historical essay on the economics of publishing in The Oxford Companion to the Book. She has recently edited the five volume collection The History of the Book in the West (Ashgate 2010).
Alexis has taught units and workshops in research methods, books and the media, adaptation and online media, editing and readerships, trends in new media publishing, nineteenth and twentieth century literary production. She currently supervises Masters by Research and PhD students in nineteenth and twentieth century publishing, books and the media, adaptation and transmedia storytelling and new forms of the book.
She has examined Masters by Research and PhD thesis in publishing, literature, new media and related areas, and has been an external examiner at the Universities of Middlesex and Napier.
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