Claire Battershill

First Name:

Claire

Last Name:

Battershill

Email :

claire.battershill@utoronto.ca

Title:

Assistant Professor; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Instructor

Office Location :

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 702, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8

Biography :

Claire Battershill is an Assistant Professor cross-appointed in the Faculty of Information and the Department of English. Her research specializes in early twentieth-century literature and book and publishing history. She also writes short stories. Before returning to Toronto, she held a SSHRC postdoc at the University of Reading and a Banting Postdoc and SSHRC Impact Award at Simon Fraser University. She co-directs The Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant, and was the co-creator of Make Believe: The Secret Library of M. Prud'homme, an imaginative exhibition of literature and material arts, funded by a Canada Council New Chapter Award in 2019.

Publications

Books

Modernist Lives: Biography and Autobiography at Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press (Historicizing Modernism Series, Bloomsbury, 2018).

Scholarly Adventures in the Digital Humanities: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (New Directions in Book History Series, Palgrave, 2017) [co-authored with Helen Southworth, Alice Staveley, Mike Widner, Elizabeth Willson Gordon and Nicola Wilson].

Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students(Bloomsbury, 2017) [co-authored with Shawna Ross].

Circus (McClelland and Stewart, 2014).

Education:

Hons. BA, University of Oxford

PhD, University of Toronto

People Type:

Faculty

Roles:

Research Area:

Cross-Appointments:

Faculty of Information.

Other Website:

Office Hours By Appointment:

http://www.clairebattershill.com