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Binckes, Dr Faith
Job Title: Departmental Lecturer in Victorian and Modern Literature
College: Worcester
Period/ Subject:Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature
Email address: faith.binckes@worc.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
My principle interest is in the period 1880-1960, although I've recently started work on the final decades of the twentieth century. I'm particularly drawn to projects that move across disciplines (or across boundaries of other kinds) and to figures or media that have generally escaped the academic mainstream. I frequently work on periodical texts, on women's writing, and on the relationships between literary and visual art, although I'm interested in print and material culture generally. Most of my research to date has been focused on literary and artistic modernism in Britain. My book Modernism, Magazines, and the British avant-garde looks at the years immediately before 1914, while my current research explores genre, print culture, and the legacies of modernism until 1990. With Dr. Kathryn Laing (MIC, University of Limerick) I'm also completing a book on the Irish author, translator and travel writer Hannah Lynch (1859-1904).
You can watch (or just listen) to me give a quick talk on Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm magazine here, as part of the Great Writers Inspire project.
Teaching Areas:
Victorian and modern literature (especially modernism); print culture; women's writing; art and literature.
Recent Publications:
Modernism, Magazines, and the British avant-garde: reading Rhythm, 1910-1914. Oxford: OUP, 2010.
'Irish Autobiographical Fiction and Hannah Lynch's Autobiography of a Child'. English Literature in Transition 55/2, 2012. With Kathryn Laing.
'Hannah Lynch, Arvede Barine, and forgotten Franco-Irish literary networks. Etudes Irlandaises, 36/2, 2011. With Kathryn Laing.
'The Vagabond's Scrutiny'. D'Hoker, Elke (ed.) Irish Women Writers: New Critical Perspectives. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. With Kathryn Laing.
'From 'Wild Irish Girl' to 'Parisianised Foreigner'. Maher, E. and O'Brien, E. (eds.) War of the Words: Literary Rebellion in France and Ireland. Rennes: Universite de Rennes 2, 2010.
In Their Own Words: six authors and their readers. BBC4 and the Open University Press, 2010.
Database of South African publishing and censorship activities, published as part of Peter McDonald's The Literature Police. Oxford: OUP, 2009.
'Rhythm, reproduction, and the textual dialogues of early modernism'. Churchill, S., and McKible, A. (eds.) Little Magazines and Modernism: new approaches. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Biography:
I took my undergraduate degree in Cambridge (Peterhouse), before moving to Oxford (Brasenose) as a postgraduate. I worked with Peter McDonald as a post-doctoral research associate on The Literature Police, before taking up my first lectureship.
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