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Funding Success for Dr Joanna Hofer-Robinson

26 Mar 2020

Department of English Lecturer, Joanna Hofer-Robinson, has been awarded three prestigous grants for upcoming projects.

She received the IRC New Foundations Award for a project entitled Breaking the Network: Cultural Fracture and Community Segmentation. The award funds a two-day interdisciplinary symposium that builds toward a new theoretical framework for conceptualising the coexistence of social fragmentation with shared economies, communities, and spaces.

She has also received the Huntington Library Short-Term Fellowship for a project entitled Unsung and Unstaged: The Plays of Charles Dickens. The fellowship funds primary research to enrich a pioneering new edition of Charles Dickens’ plays,  co-edited with Dr Peter Orford (The ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Buckingham, UK). This new edition of five plays by Dickens, written between 1836 and 1851, makes three significant interventions to encourage further research in the field: 

Lastly, Dr Hofer-Robinson has also been awarded British Academy Seed Funding (BA/RIA Knowledge Frontiers) for a project entitled (Non)Spectacular Infrastructure: Enacting Resource Circulation in Stages, Studios and Communities. The award funds a two-day workshop which brings together scholars working in fields of film, literary and theatre studies and human geography, for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and collaborative practice-led research. This workshop will focus on a particular aesthetic characteristic of infrastructures: how they alternate between mundane invisibility and spectacular foregrounding. This is a collaborative project with Dr Jeremy Brice (Economy, Risk & Society, LSE) and Dr Adam O’Brien (Film Studies, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Reading).