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Faubert, Michelle (Michelle R.)
Professor, ENGLISH, THEATRE, FILM & MEDIA
Email: Michelle.Faubert@umanitoba.ca
Home Page:
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Research Description
English Romanticism; history of psychology; Scottish Enlightenment; representations of insanity; early feminism; depression; suicide; Mary Wollstonecraft; Romantic-era psychologist-poets; 1790s
Teaching Description
Romanticism; women's writing; representations of women; cultural constructions of insanity; religion and literature
Public/Media (Non-Technical) Description
English Romanticism; history of psychology; Scottish Enlightenment; representations of insanity; early feminism; depression; suicide; Mary Wollstonecraft; Romantic-era psychologist-poets; 1790s
International Activities
Association of Commonwealth Universities Titular Fellowship: The Gordon and Jean Southam Fellowship
UK government scholarship to foster research activities between Commonwealth university partners and UK universities
Awarded: summer 2010-11; ₤5,000
| Partners | Northumbria University |
| Funding Agencies | Association of Commonwealth Universities |
| Location | Northumbria University, Newcastle |
| Countries | England |
| Regions | UK |
| Dates | 2010 - 2011 |
Visiting Fellowship, Northumbria University
Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University; duties are to collaborate on research projects, present lectures on my research to faculty and graduate students, and present on other academic activities, such as bidding for funding
(2010-2013; some travel funds included)
| Partners | Northumbria University |
| Funding Agencies | Northumbria University |
| Location | Newcastle |
| Countries | England |
| Regions | UK |
| Dates | 2010 - 2013 |
Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 (4 vol.s); Volume 2: Medical Writings, co-edited collection
I am co-editing a collection of seventeenth- to eighteenth-century writings on depression with a team of scholars from Northumbria University; in particular, I am co-editing the volume on medical writings with Allan Ingram, of Northumbria University. The 4-volume set will be published with Pickering & Chatto, London. Projected date of publication: Summer 2012
| Partners | Northumbria University |
| Funding Agencies | Association of Commonwealth Universities; Northumbria University; UM SSHRC |
| Location | Newcastle |
| Countries | England |
| Regions | UK |
| Dates | 2010 - 2012 |
Invited essay: "Calvinism, Enthusiasm, and Romantic Suicide"
Gavin Budge, of Hertfordshire University in England, invited me to contribute an essay for a volume on "Enthusiasm" in the Romantic period. He plans to offer it to Bucknell University Press in the US in the Fall of 2012
| Partners | Hertfordshire University |
| Funding Agencies | Rh Award |
| Location | Hertfordshire University |
| Countries | England |
| Regions | UK |
| Dates | 2012 - 2012 |
Invited essay: "Romantic Bodyscapes" and Suicide
Gerold Sedlmayr, of Wuerzburg University, Germany, invited me to contribute an essay to a volume on "Romantic Bodyscapes" he is editing for the book series of the German Society for English Romanticism
| Partners | Wuerzburg University |
| Funding Agencies | TBA |
| Location | Wuerzburg |
| Countries | Germany |
| Regions | Northern Europe |
| Dates | 2012 - 2013 |
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