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Dr Nicola Darwood

Profile

Dr Nicola Darwood, Visiting Lecturer in English Studies

I studied for my BA in English and Cultural Studies at De Montfort University and then continued at the university to study for a PhD in English Literature.

Teaching role

I teach on four courses across the undergraduate English Studies programme: Ways of Reading and Practical Writing (1st year), The Romantics and Victorians (2nd year) and The Modern Age (3rd year).

Research interests

My main research focus has been on the work of Elizabeth Bowen. I am also interested in the role of illustrations in 18th and 19th century children’s books and the fiction of Katherine Mansfield.

Recent research outputs

Conferences
  • ‘Elizabeth Bowen and a Tale of Two Tigers’ – ‘Sound, Image, Text’, ISSCL Annual Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, March 2010
  • 'Eviction From Eden: The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen’ – ‘Down to Earth: The Fall in Modern Literature’, CLSG, Oxford, November 2009
  • ‘A Tale of Two Tigers: Elizabeth Bowen’s children’s story The Good Tiger’ – ‘The Hockliffe Conference’, University of Bedfordshire, June 2009
  • ‘Empty Boxes, Empty Spaces: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls’ – ‘Crosscurrents’, University of Strathclyde, April 2008
  • ‘Representations of Country and City, Innocence and Corruption in Elizabeth Bowen’s early fiction’ – ‘The Idea of the City, Early modern, Modern, and Post-Modern Locations and Communities Conference’, University of Northampton, June 2007
  • ‘The sudden lightening flash in the darkness’: Authorial Manipulation, Anagnôrisis and the Loss of Innocence in Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris’ – ‘Constructions of Creativity Conference’, Durham University, September 2005
  • ‘The sudden lightening flash in the darkness’: Anagnôrisis and the Loss of Innocence in Elizabeth Bowen’s early fiction’ – ‘Manuscript Conference’, University of Manchester, May 2005
Publications
  • 2009. ‘Empty Boxes, Empty Spaces: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls’ in McNair, A and Ryder, J (eds) in Further From the Frontiers: Crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish Studies. Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, pp. 11-20.
  • 2010. ‘Eviction from Eden: The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen’ in The Glass, No.22, Spring 2010, pp.41-49.

Contact Details

E: nicola.darwood@beds.ac.uk

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