Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Fields of Study
- Creative Writing (MA)
- Twentieth and Twenty-first Century British and Irish Literature
Areas of Interest
- Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature
- Creative Writing
- Book History
- Digital Humanities
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).