Research Assistant
- About
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- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
Having taught in Saudi Arabia, Japan, China, and Oman, Anna's passion for studying the works of Walter Scott is only rivalled by her interest in education on the international stage. She is also a storyteller, and is intrigued by how written and oral stories interact.
Prizes and Awards
Winner of the 2020 Jack Medal for the best article on a subject related to reception or diaspora in Scottish Literatures.
- Research
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Current Research
Reviewer for the Year's Work in English Studies. Chapters to be published in 2022, 2023, and 2024.
Currently working on articles on Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and Susan Ferrier.
Past Research
Articles:
'Gendered Creativity: the Heroines of Count Robert of Paris,' in The Scottish Literary Review, 12.2 (2020), pp. 19-38. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/43263.
'Introducing Walter Scott: What Scott Scholars Can Learn from the Prefaces of Chinese Translations of Walter Scott's Work,' in Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, 13.2 (2020), pp. 27-48. http://www.wreview.org/index.php/current-issue/62-vol-13-no-2/376-introducing-walter-scott2.html.
'The Mother's Word: Maternity and Writing in Walter Scott,' in Scottish Literary Review, 8.2 (2016), pp. 55-72. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35381.
Book Chapters:
'Telling Tales: Passing on Traditional Stories in China, South Korea, and Scotland,' in China Beyond the Binary ed. Kate Rose. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
'The Immortal Story: Story-Collecting in China and the UK,' in Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Study: A Multiculturalist Perspective ed. Wu Gefei. Nanjing University Press. 2018.
'The Creation of the Historical Novel: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels,' British Literature II: Major Genres, Forms, and Media in British Literature ed. Kirilka Stavreva. Gale Researcher. 2017.
Knowledge Exchange
Blog Posts
British Association of Romantic Studies: 250 Years of Walter Scott: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=3840
British Association of Romantic Studies: Walter Scott and The Pirate: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=3454
Romantic Textualities: Reading Shakespeare in Scott: Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 (romtext.org.uk) With Leslie Drury.
Selected Public Events
Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Global Hearth: Walter Scott and City Writers, October 2021.
Tradfest: Walter Scott and the Storytellers, May 2014. With Lisa McKenna.
Recent Conference Papers
'Reading the Waverley Novels in China,' Scottish Literature Conference in Nanjing, 2021.
'The Natural World in The Bride of Lammermoor,' Twelfth International Walter Scott Conference, 2021.
'Active Learning Online,' 1st National Symposium of English Language Teachers, 2021.
'The Voice of Stories in Walter Scott's Waverley and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart,' The 4th International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Culture, 2020.
'Narrative Creation in Walter Scott's Novels,' Romantic Facts and Fantasies (British Association of Romantic Studies), 2019.