CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University of Chester
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  Crisis; man-made or natural disasters; famine; literary representations of crisis; historical novel

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I am a professor of Irish and British literature specialising in literary representations of the Irish Great Famine from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, and cultural ramifications of man-made or natural disasters.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Happy to join projects on the representation of crises (historical or imagined) in literary fiction, in particular the impact of crisis on communal or familial relationships; or comparative studies of the representation and impact of famine across cultures and times.

Professor Melissa Fegan

• Organisation: University of Chester
• Position: Professor of English Literature
• E-mail: m.fegan@chester.ac.uk
• Web: www1.chester.ac.uk/departments/english/staff/melissa-fegan