Visiting Professors and Fellows
The Centre's research culture benefits from its established International Visiting Research Professor Scheme. These international figures maintain a dialogue with staff throughout their appointment, and make an intensive contribution over a week-long visit – delivering research papers, public lectures, staff workshops, and individual consultations with staff and postgraduates.
Visiting Professors have included:
• Pramod Nayar, who visited in the academic year of 2007/8 from Hyderabad University in India, and helped develop research in postcolonial studies and testimony.
• Tom Luxon of Dartmouth College, USA, addressed research issues in digital environments and pre-modern texts in 2006/7.
• Alessandro Portelli of the University of Roma La Sapienza carried out work into testimony, life writing and oral history in 2005/6.
• Grant Farred, from Duke University, USA, stimulated research into cross-national and cross-ethnic autobiographical identifications in in 2004/5.
• Nancy Armstrong from Brown University, USA led discussions on interdisciplinarity in 2001/2.
The Centre also hosts Visiting Research Fellows, researching in related fields.
Dr Petar Vodenicharov visited in the academic year 2007/8 from the South-Western University "Neofit Rilski", in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, and researched comparative Communist life-histories.
In 2005/6, Maarit Leskela-Karki, of theUniversity of Turku, Finland, completed a book on women writers' self-fashioning.
