Events
Organised seminars and conferences
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Linguistic approaches to Jane Austen’s childhood: the early years of a “very charming young woman” and her significant others. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (5-6 May 2025).
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Keynote speakers: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Kathryn Sutherland
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IV Inter-university Seminar: What biographical discourse reveals about female childhood (1750-1900) (25 November 2024) (link)
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III Inter-university Seminar: Female childhood, conflict of interest (March 2024)
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II Inter-university Seminar: New Paradigms in Childhood studies (June 2023)
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I Inter-university Seminar: Historical vs. contemporary definitions of female childhood (July 2022)
Panels at International Conferences
"The biographer’s voice in English (auto-)biographical narratives of past female childhoods". 5th Cultural Linguistics International Conference. Madrid (16-18 June 2025). (Panel abstract)
"School and leisure? Images of past female childhood education as projected in (auto-) biographical English texts". “Narrating Lives”: International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography. Cagliari/online (30 May- 1 June 2025) (Panel abstract)
“Contemporary images of a forgotten life-stage: Late Modern English female childhood as projected in biographical discourse”. 8th International Conference on Late Modern English (LModE-8). Salamanca (2-4 October 2024)
"Female childhoods. Linguistic approaches to the silent and obscure years of women in English (auto-) biographical discourse, 1750-1900". 7th Conference of International Society for the Lingusitics of English (ISLE7). University of Queensland (19-23 June 2023)
International Women's Day and Women's History Month
March 2025. Padlet Collaboration with PhD programme in English Linguistics
Link to Padlet. Download panel.
March 2024. Collaboration with PhD programme in English Linguistics