Birkbeck student wins Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award
Doctoral candidate in our Department of English and Humanities, Alexis Wolf, is the recipient of a Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award this year.
Doctoral candidate in our Department of English and Humanities, Alexis Wolf, is the recipient of a Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award this year. This is a highly competitive annual bursary scheme run by the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) in order to support postgraduate research in the UK or aboard.
Alexis’s thesis is entitled ‘The Life Writing of Katherine and Martha Wilmot: A Study of Self-Education, Translation and International Exploration in Women's Travel Narratives, 1801-1808’. It is an archival-based study of women's travel writing, editorial work and translation practices in the early nineteenth century. This award will allow her to conduct primary research in Dublin over the summer at the Royal Irish Academy.
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