Faye Hammill

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Faye Hammill

FRSE
Occupationprofessor of English literature
Employer University of Glasgow
Known formodern North American and British middlebrow literature research
Awards2003 - Pierre Savard Award; 2010 - European Society for the Study of English biannual book prize in English Literature; 2011 - Young Academy of Scotland; 2021 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Faye Hammill FRSE is a professor in the University of Glasgow, specialising in North American and British modern writing in the first half of the twentieth century, what is often called 'middlebrow'. Her recent focus is ocean liners in literature. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2021). [1]

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Education and career

Hammill graduated with a First Class degree in English Language & Literature with French from the University of Birmingham (1995) and completed her doctorate four years later in Canadian Literature. She lectured in English for three years at Cardiff University and then spent five years at Liverpool University, becoming senior lecturer in 2006. Moving to Glasgow, Hammill taught English at Strathclyde University for six years, becoming professor in 2011, and part-time Deputy Associate Principal (Research) in 2016. [2] [1]

Since 2017, she has been professor in English Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, and has served on research assessment and peer review groups, as keynote speakers at conferences and published books and other academic research. [3]

Research and publications

Her comparative literature research covered well known publications, such as Cold Comfort Farm, [4] and Anne of Green Gables, the 1934 film version of the latter she said glossed over the character's 'loss, rejection, cruel authority figures, and loneliness', and that the character of Anne Shirley had 'overshadowed' that of her creator.' [5] Hammill has also written about the 'Great American Novel' contender, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. [6] One of her areas of interest in 2002, whilst at Cardiff, was also Canadian literary reviews considering the idea of nature and the 'Gothic'. [7] In 2007, when Hammill was at Strathclyde, she wrote about her research examining literary women and writing between the wars, and the notion of celebrity. [8]

She began the AHRC Middlebrow Network in 2008, which has grown to 400 members. [2] Her international collaboration on Canadian magazines and writing on travel, also grew with a joint project with the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory in 2011, [9] and a book titled Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture published with Michelle Smith, in 2015. [10] Her work studying middlebrow culture looked further at the impact of publications like Vanity Fair (1914–36); American Mercury (1924–81); New Yorker (1925– ); Esquire (1933– ) in a chapter written with Karen Leick in Oxford University Press publication Modernism and the Quality Magazines. [11] The Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, in 2015, funded a 'Modern Magazines project' with Hammill, Hannah McGregor and Paul Hjartarson, publishing their key findings in the Canadian academic journal English Studies in Canada [12] and in the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. The previous year she had given a keynote lecture for ACCUTE at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Brock University, Canada). [2]

Hammill won a mid-career Fellowship from the British Academy (2015) on Noël Coward and attitudes to print culture or popularity. [13] [14] [15] In 2018, she gave a keynote lecture at the "Big Magazines" conference (Aix-Marseille Université, France) [2] In 2019, the University of Glasgow awarded her a Research Culture Award, for her work in mentoring and supporting early career researchers. [16]

Ocean liners and literature

Hammill's most recent focus has been on the role of ocean liners in modern literature. [17] She has been asked to speak at conferences and events across the country, and internationally. For example, in 2018 at the V&A Museum Ocean Liners Conference; [18] at Nottingham Trent University Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group (2020); [19] at a King's College London 2020 event titled The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Literary Imagination; [20] invited as keynote speaker on 'A business man's dream': Promoting/Narrating the RMS Queen Mary' at the International Postgraduate Port and Maritime Studies Network Belfast conference (2020); [21] and in considering Transatlantic Style: The Ocean Liner and the 'International Set in the second USA Transatlantic Literary Women's series (online 2020). [22]

Hammill has also contributed to telephones in literature (online exhibition) [23] and an English PEN International Women's Day event 'The Right to Roam: Women and Free Expression. [24]

Other selected publications

Current research publications

These are published by the University of Glasgow. [3]

Awards

See also

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  4. ↑ Hammill, Faye (2001). "Cold Comfort Farm, D. H. Lawrence, and English Literary Culture Between the Wars". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 47 (4): 831–854. doi:10.1353/mfs.2001.0086. ISSN   1080-658X. S2CID   162211201.
  5. ↑ Hammill, Faye (1 July 2006). "'A new and exceedingly brilliant star': L. M. Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables," and Mary Miles Minter". The Modern Language Review. 101 (3): 652–670. doi:10.2307/20466900. ISSN   0026-7937. JSTOR   20466900.
  6. ↑ HAMMILL, FAYE (2005). "'One of the few books that doesn't stink': The Intellectuals, the Masses and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"". Critical Survey. 17 (3): 27–48. doi:10.3167/001115705780996498. ISSN   0011-1570. JSTOR   41556128.
  7. ↑ Hammill, Faye (1 November 2003). "'Death by Nature': Margaret Atwood and Wilderness Gothic". Gothic Studies. 5 (2): 47–63. doi:10.7227/GS.5.2.5. ISSN   1362-7937.
  8. ↑ Hammill, Faye (6 October 2007). Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars By Faye Hammill. ISBN   978-0-292-71644-5.
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  10. ↑ "Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture". www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  11. ↑ Hammill, Faye; Leick, Karen (5 July 2012), Brooker, Peter; Thacker, Andrew (eds.), "Modernism and the Quality Magazines", The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Oxford University Press, pp. 176–196, doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199545810.003.0010, ISBN   978-0-19-954581-0 , retrieved 2 October 2021
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  13. ↑ Hammill, Faye. Noël Coward, Print Culture and Popularity (PDF).
  14. ↑ Hammill (2015). "Noël Coward and the Sitwells: Enmity, Celebrity, Popularity". Journal of Modern Literature. 39 (1): 129–148. doi:10.2979/jmodelite.39.1.129. JSTOR   10.2979/jmodelite.39.1.129. S2CID   146688837.
  15. ↑ Hammill, Faye (November 2016). "Noël Coward, Rebecca West, and the Modernist Scene". Modernist Cultures. 11 (3): 351–369. doi:10.3366/mod.2016.0145. ISSN   2041-1022.
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  17. ↑ "University of Glasgow - Research - Our research environment - Support and Development for Postgraduate Researchers - LKAS PhD Scholarships - Previously Awarded Kelvin Smith PhD Scholarships - 2019/20 Projects - Arts Ocean Liners: Cultures of Promotion". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
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  24. ↑ The Right to Roam: Women and Free Expression with Margie Orford and Kerri ní Dochartaigh , retrieved 3 October 2021
  25. ↑ Hammill, Faye (2003). Literary culture and female authorship in Canada, 1760-2000. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN   90-420-0915-2. OCLC   52746796.
  26. ↑ Encyclopedia of British women's writing, 1900-1950. Faye Hammill, Esme Miskimmin, Ashlie Sponenberg. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. ISBN   1-4039-1692-6. OCLC   62341622.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  27. ↑ Hammill, Faye (2010). Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History. Liverpool University Press. ISBN   978-1-84631-232-8.
  28. ↑ "Ask an Academic: Sophistication". The New Yorker. 25 May 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
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