EdJoWriWe 2013
Handbook
This handbook is intended both as a guide for participants in EdJoWriWe and as a resource for anyone else who feels it might be useful to them.
The reasoning and aspirations behind EdJoWriWe are set out in ‘About EdJoWriWe’ while the week’s structure and constituent parts are set out in the ‘Schedule’ and under the relevant headings. In advance of EdJoWriWe itself, we have been collecting anecdotes and advice relevant to academic publishing both from current professionals and from other sources: these are presented under ‘Reflections on Academic Publishing and Writing’ and include some excellently insightful contributions. |
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Organisers
Eystein Thanisch studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge before undertaking an MScR in Celtic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently in the third year of a PhD - also in Celtic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.. His research interests can be broadly described as medieval literary theory, historiography and manuscript studies. He has two articles currently in press for peer-reviewed journals but only after suffering the brutal rejection of his first attempt at publication. Otherwise, he enjoys computer games, hillwalking, fencing and beer.
Muireann Crowley holds a BA (Hons) in English and Philosophy, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from University College Cork, Ireland. She also holds degrees from the University of Warwick and the University of Edinburgh, and is presently in the second year of a PhD with the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is rambling through Romantic Irish and Scottish literature and print culture studies in the course of her research, and spends much of her time dwelling on paratexts. Outside of the university, she likes comic books and jaunts.
Muireann Crowley holds a BA (Hons) in English and Philosophy, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from University College Cork, Ireland. She also holds degrees from the University of Warwick and the University of Edinburgh, and is presently in the second year of a PhD with the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is rambling through Romantic Irish and Scottish literature and print culture studies in the course of her research, and spends much of her time dwelling on paratexts. Outside of the university, she likes comic books and jaunts.
Catering liaison
Sarah Sharp is a second year PhD candidate in the English Literature Department at the University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral studies are supervised by Prof. Penny Fielding and funded by a Wolfson Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship. She is a current member of SWINC (Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century) and is a research assistant on the new Edinburgh edition of the collected works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She is also a biscuit connoisseur. For more information on her work please go to... < http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/postgraduate/phd/student-profiles?person_id=207&cw_xml=profile.php >
Handbook Researcher
Emily Anderson is doing an MSc in Comparative Literature having completed her BA at Cambridge and spent a year at Cambridge University Press. She hopes to cling on to academia for as long as possible. Outside the library she enjoys rowing and writing terrible short stories (not at the same time).
Social Media Guru
Ella Leith is in her third year of a PhD in the Celtic and Scottish Studies department at the University of Edinburgh, where she also did her undergraduate degree and MScR. She is researching British Sign Language storytelling and the Deaf 'oral' tradition in Scotland and enjoys having her mind blown by it on a daily basis. She is also a literacy tutor, and enjoys folk singing and hiking.