Claire Battershill

Claire Battershill

First Name: 
Claire
Last Name: 
Battershill
Title: 
Assistant Professor; Undergraduate Instructor; Graduate Faculty
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:

Areas of Interest: 
  • Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature
  • Creative Writing
  • Book History
  • Digital Humanities
Cross-Appointments: 
Faculty of Information.
Other Website: 
Office Hours By Appointment: 
http://www.clairebattershill.com
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Claire Battershill; Assistant Professor; Undergraduate Instructor.