Graduate Student, English
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Dr Diane Purkiss
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About
My doctoral project uses nineteenth-century movable books for children (drawn from the Opie Collection at the Bodleian Library) to ‘read’ book history and narrative theory. How do works that diverge so markedly from standard book formats inflect questions of form and content?
At Oxford I convene the Oxford Children’s Literature and Youth Culture Symposium; recent speakers have included Prof. Maria Nikolajeva (Cambridge), Dr Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (Penn State), and Prof. Shira Wolosky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). See http://oxchildrenslit.blogspot.com/ for more information.
Publications:
‘100 Ways to Make a Japanese House’, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (forthcoming 2012).
‘“All Toys at First I Find”: Theorising the Material Culture of Childhood in Dickens’s “A Christmas Tree”’, in 200 Years, But He Doesn’t Look It: New Perspectives in Dickens Criticism, ed. Norbert Lennartz and Francesca Orestano (Rome: Aracne Editrice, forthcoming 2012).
‘A Few of the Author's Favorite Things: Clothes, Fetishism, and The Tailor of Gloucester’, Lion and the Unicorn, 34 (2010): 17-33.
Recent conference papers:
‘Mister Nister and the Family Romance of the Book’, British Association for Victorian Studies Conference, University of Birmingham, 1-3 September 2011.
‘The Grand Tours of Some Regency Paper Dolls’, Travel Writing and Form, 1780-1915, King’s College London, 26 and 27 May 2011.
‘Movable Feats, Magic Books: Some Nineteenth-Century Technologies of Children's Literature’, MCR/SCR Symposium, Somerville College, Oxford, 12 May 2011.
‘Exemplified in a Series of Dresses: The Nineteenth-Century Paper Doll Book’, Oxford Children’s Literature and Youth Culture Colloquium, English Faculty, Oxford, 18 January 2010.
Teaching:
Advanced Studies in England, Bath, ‘Images of Youth’ and ‘Worlds beyond Oxford’, 2011, 2012
University of Oxford, Paper Eight (undergraduate research essays), 2011, 2012
Oxford Programme for Undergraduate Studies (OPUS), ‘C. S. Lewis’ and ‘Young Adult Literature’, 2010, 2011
University of Auckland, ‘Children’s Literature: Words and Pictures’, ‘Nineteenth-Century Literature’, ‘Fundamental Questions: Desire’, 2006-2009
