Angela Smith

Research interests
War Writing, Gender and War writing, particularly the First World War; Women's Writing of the First World War, Discourses of the Women's Suffrage Movement; Modernism and Female Modernisms. Charles Causley. 

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts Research (HuMPA) 
English and Creative Writing 

Other research

 

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

 

Grants & contracts

EXTERNAL FUNDING

February 2003-February 2004 AHRB funded Research leave to complete my Suffrage book. My post-leave report received the highest accreditation form the AHRB

November 2001 – The British Academy paid my expenses to speak at the North American Conference on British Studies, Toronto.

1994-7 British Academy Three Year Studentship for the completion of my PhD

1992-3 British Academy One year Studentship to fund my MA

 

Publications

Books:

Women's Writing of the First World War: An Anthology – Manchester University Press, March 2000 (Edited collection).

The Second Battlefield: Women, Modernism and the First World War. – Manchester University Press, December 2000 (monograph).

Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Textual Representations. MUP, 2004 (Edited collection)

Suffrage Discourse in Britain During the First World War, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005 (monograph)

Articles/Chapters:

‘The Pankhursts and the War’, in Women’s History Review, Autumn 2002 (article)

‘That Silly Suffrage…: The Paradox of World War 1’, in Nineteenth Century Feminisms, Fall/Winter 2000 (article).

‘Women and World War 1: New Perspectives’, in The European English Messenger, Vol. IX/2, Autumn 2000

'Battlefield Nursing', in Reader's Guide to Women's Studies - Fitzroy Dearborn, April 1998.

Review of four books for the Times Higher Education Supplement – March 2000.

· Suffragists at War: The Scottish Women’s Hospitals and the Vote’ in ed. Francoise Le Jeune, Paroles de Femmes dans la Guerre (1914-1918), Universite de Nantes,Crini, 2005, pp. 105-112.

‘All Quiet on the Woolwich Front: Literary and Cultural Constructions of Munition Workers in World War One’ in Women and Work Culture, Eds. Krista Cowman and Louise Jackson, Ashgate, 2005.

‘Modernity: Approaching the Twentieth Century’ in A Companion to Europe 1900-1945, Ed. Gordon Martel, Blackwells, 2005.

‘The Woman Who Dared: Major Mabel St Clair Stobart’ in The Gentler Sex, eds. Alison Fell and Ingrid Sharpe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Forthcoming:

British Literature of World War One, General Editor, Pickering and Chatto, 2010 which includes:
Despised and Rejected (ed), Pickering and Chatto,  2010. 

 ‘The Mists Which Shroud these Questions: Mabel St Clair Stobart, the First World War and Faith’ in Women: A Cultural Review, 2011.

British Women in Serbia: War, Writing and Experience, 1914-1920, monograph

The Woman Who Dared: The Life of Mabel St Clair Stobart 1862-1954, Biography

 

Reports & invited lectures

Selected conferences:

April 2009 - 'Poetry and Belief' - University of Lancaster

January 2009 - Invited Speaker to Keele University.

‘The First World War and Popular Culture’, April 2006 at University of Newcastle: Keynote Speaker

 ‘The Gentler Sex: Responses of the women’s movement to the First World War 1914-1919’, September 2005 at University of London: Invited Speaker

May 2004 - invited speaker at the National Army Museum to give two public lectures on Front Line women in the First World War

August 2003 - Featured in the television series War Women talking about a range of women's activities in the First World War, particulalry the activities of the Scottish Women's Hospitals and Mabel St Clair Stobart