General:"Blue Sky" Possibilities for Victorian Research
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|inst = University of New Brunswick, Fredericton | |inst = University of New Brunswick, Fredericton | ||
|field = My main field of research is Victorian literature, particularly Gothic and sensation fiction, popular culture, and writing by women. | |field = My main field of research is Victorian literature, particularly Gothic and sensation fiction, popular culture, and writing by women. | ||
| + | |selfDescription = I recently completed my dissertation, which focused on the development of the cultural narrative of Queen Victoria, from the early literary experiments and counter-narratives about her to the frenzied reginamania that coincided with mass-market sensation fiction in the late 1850s and early 1860s. I also teach part-time at UNB; last year I taught an upper-level women’s writing course, and I’m currently teaching the history of the British novel to the nineteenth century. I regularly use computers and databases (such as Orlando, Google Books, the English Poetry Database) in my research, and I also use a course management system with a blog function (Blackboard) for my classes. | ||
| + | |project = My next few research projects will involve developing the parts of my dissertation for publication, and considering what "blue sky" tools might help my work in various ways. | ||
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User Story Creator Identification
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Name: Vicky Simpson
Email: vicky.simpson@unb.ca
Tell us something about your level of study and the type of institutional appointment you hold. Choose any of the terms below that apply to you: * undergrad * grad * part-time instructor * pre-tenure faculty member * tenured faculty member * archivist-librarian * independent scholar * creative practitioner * interested citizen
Role: PhD candidate and part-time instructor
Institution: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
Field of Study/Creative Endeavor: My main field of research is Victorian literature, particularly Gothic and sensation fiction, popular culture, and writing by women.
Self-description
Please write a paragraph about your persona as a researcher: your position, your discipline, your general research interests, and the extent to which you use computers in your research. You may wish to mention particular tools that you use with some regularity.
I recently completed my dissertation, which focused on the development of the cultural narrative of Queen Victoria, from the early literary experiments and counter-narratives about her to the frenzied reginamania that coincided with mass-market sensation fiction in the late 1850s and early 1860s. I also teach part-time at UNB; last year I taught an upper-level women’s writing course, and I’m currently teaching the history of the British novel to the nineteenth century. I regularly use computers and databases (such as Orlando, Google Books, the English Poetry Database) in my research, and I also use a course management system with a blog function (Blackboard) for my classes.
Project
Please provide a short description of the larger project from which this story emerges.
My next few research projects will involve developing the parts of my dissertation for publication, and considering what "blue sky" tools might help my work in various ways.
Story
How broadly do the practices described in this story apply to others in same field, in related fields, etc? * broadly applicable * shared by some * shared by few or none
Scope:
Does your story describe current research activities that you think CWRC will enhance (present), or future research possibilities that you can only dream of now? (future)
Timeline:
Please provide some keywords that will allow us to group or cluster related stories--or aspects of stories. Use as many of the ones listed below as relevant or provide your own. * Aggregate * Annotate * Consider * Discover * Interact * Publish * Archive/Preserve * Share * Visualize * Map * Historicize * Edit * Network * Collaborate * Integrated History of Women's Writing in Canada * Orlando
Keywords:
Are there parts of the story that relate to other CWRC stories? Please provide title(s) and link to the relevant story page.
Related Stories: From Queen Victoria to the Sensation Writers [[1]]
Are there tools that do some of the sorts of things you'd like to see in CWRC? If so, what are they?
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