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Louise Edensor

Dr Louise Edensor

ROLE: Senior Lecturer Campus Programme Coordinator
CONTACT: +971 (0)4 361 6253
EMAIL: l.edensor@mdx.ac.ae
  1. Biography
  2. Qualifications
  3. Research

  • Biography

    Dr Louise Edensor is Campus Programme Coordinator for the International Foundation Programme at Middlesex University Dubai. She holds a PhD and MA in Literature, a BA Honours (First Class) in Humanities with Literature, and a BA Honours in Business Administration, along with an ILM Certificate in Supervisory Management. She is Editorial Assistant for Katherine Mansfield Studies, and a Member of the May Sinclair Society and the British Modernism Society.

    Louise’s teaching interests include Academic Writing, Children’s Literature, Media Events and News Culture. Her research interests include Early Modernism, the Writings of Katherine Mansfield, Literary Theory, Children’s Literature, and Media Discourse.

     

  • Qualifications

    • PhD Literature, University of Northampton
    • MA Literature, Open University
    • BA (Hons) First Class Humanities with Literature, Open University
    • BA (Hons) Business Administration, Staffordshire University
    • ILM Certificate Supervisory Management

    Awards and achievements

    • Staff Excellence in Teaching Award, Middlesex University, 2012

    Membership of professional bodies and associations

    • Editorial Assistant, Katherine Mansfield Studies
    • May Sinclair Society
    • British Modernism Society

  • Research

    Research Interests

    • Early Modernism
    • Writings of Katherine Mansfield
    • Literary Theory
    • Children’s Literature
    • Media Discourse

    Selected Publications

    • Edensor, L. 2018. ‘‘Before art can be human again, it must first learn to be Brutal’: Katherine Mansfield, the Self and Rhythm’. Tinakori: Critical Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society. ISBN 2397-9046.
    • RMIT Conference Melbourne June 2010‘Katherine Mansfield and the Blooms Berries’: Paper: ‘Time for a Change: The influence of the writings of Henri Bergson and Arthur Symons on the short stories of Katherine Mansfield’
    • Katherine Mansfield and Influence (2015) ‘Creative Evolution: Symbolist Representations of Bergson’s Duration in the works of Katherine Mansfield’
    • MDX Conference 2011: Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Science: ‘Mixing with the Digital Natives: An Investigation of the Efficacy of Facebook as an Academic Tool’.
    • Synecdochic Representations of Patriarchal ideology and of Nationality: Katherine Mansfield and the Germans, Katherine Mansfield Conference, Slovakia, June 2011
    • MDX Conference 2013: Facebook in Higher Education: the yellow brick road or highway through the danger zone? Dubai, November 2013
    • Un Profession de foi pour toujours: Katherine Mansfield and Beatrice Hastings in France, Katherine Mansfield Conference, Universite Paris III, Sorbonne, Paris, June 2014.

    Book Chapters

    • ‘Chapter Two: Un profession de foi pour toujours: Katherine Mansfield and Beatrice Hastings in France’ in Kimber, G and Davison, C., Katherine Mansfield’s French Lives (Brill Ropodi, 2016) pp.23-39.

    Journal Articles

    • Edensor, L. 2016. ‘Me or I? The Search for the Self in the early writings of Katherine Mansfield’ in Katherine Mansfield Studies Vol 8 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
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