ISSUE 20: Transformation
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Letter from the Editor
When choosing the theme for this year’s issue, we at The Kelvingrove Review and our colleagues at e-Sharp had one criterion: ‘does it include every branch of the Arts and Humanities?’ In previous years, we might have chosen to focus on a theme which drew on a specific concept or movement within the field: queer, post-critique, the more-than-human. This year, however, we could not justify such a limiting scope. In choosing the theme of Transformation, we sought to take stock. To give ourselves, our colleagues, and our readers the opportunity to reflect upon what it means to work in our various, inter-connected fields now. Various currents work to transform (for better or worse) not only the arts and humanities, but the university itself, at a pace which is often impossible to keep up with. In the pieces below, our contributors tackle this idea of transformation from a variety of positions, engaging with work from across the breadth of fields which make up the arts and humanities. From narratives of transformation, to works which seek to chart the developments of a field, as well as reviews which are themselves products of the transformation in critical vocabularies.
Working on this issue has been a transformative process. We have grown exponentially from having this opportunity to get outside our own research, our own subject areas, and to not only gain a profound appreciation for the work that goes in to, and importance of, academic reviews, but also to gain a sense of the way in which the arts and humanities have undergone, and continue to undergo, transformation (beyond what we had even imagined in that first meeting when we alighted on the theme). We hope that reading this issue proves to be as transformative for you as editing it was for us; that the reviews contained within challenge you, offer new perspectives, introduce new ideas, and provoke further inquiry.
Yours,
Daniel Dicks
(General Editor, 2024).
General Editor: Daniel Dicks
Editors: Michelah Brown, Esme Paul, Keni Li, and Emma Elizabeth Porter Stone
Cover Artist: Jennifer Sturrock
Contents
| Cover Art | ||
| Jennifer Sturrock | As Surely As Spark Fly Upwards; Jacket || Couture Spring/Summer 25 | TKR 20 Sturrock |
| Non-Fiction | ||
| Yidan Hu | Journey Through the Discipline: A Review of Metatranslation: Essays on Translation and Translation Studies | TKR 20 Hu |
| Samuel Fernandes | Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature | TKR 20 Fernandes |
| Exhibitions | ||
| Serena Wong | A Blue and White Sorority: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's Famous Women Dinner Service | TKR 20 Wong |
| Jenny Alexander | The Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots | TKR 20 Alexander |
| Tatiana Köhler | Digitising History: Five Hundred Years Towards Understanding | TKR 20 Köhler |
| Film | ||
| Eugina Gelbelman | How to Have Sex | TKR 20 Gelbelman |
| Poetry | ||
| Tatianna Kalb | Emily Wilson's Iliad: Crafting an Attainable Tale | TKR 20 Kalb |
| Carrie Foulkes | Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency | TKR 20 Foulkes |
Contributor Biographies
Jennifer Sturrock is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and researcher, integrating fashion, installations and poetry, born in Edinburgh. Formerly senior producer of Residencies at the V&A Museum (in London), she has curated exhibits and multiple events, as well as styling for ad campaigns, such as Lancôme. She has also worked with a range of cultural organisations including the Royal Society of the Arts, Courtauld Institute and University of the Arts London. Her poetry book, Pulling Threads, which combines poems and textile artworks, has been acquired by the National Poetry Library’s permanent collection in London, as well as the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. Currently, Jennifer is doing a practice-based PhD at Glasgow University in Theology through Creative Practice, funded by the Templeton Foundation and exploring ideas of transfiguration and liminality. For more information: www.jennifersturrock.com | www.schoolofunknowing.com | @jensturrock
Yidan Hu is currently a PhD candidate in theatre studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include theatre translation and contemporary Chinese literature with a theoretical focus on the intersection between postcolonialism and translation studies. Her PhD project concerns China’s theatrical representations on the historical London stage during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She holds a MA in translation studies and graduated with distinction from the Joint Graduate School of Nankai University and the University of Glasgow. Alongside her broader translation portfolio, she also has provided translation services for IOHA (The Institute of Human Anatomy), IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) and HoGem, a high-tech enterprise in Beijing.
Samuel Pinheiro gained a BA in social anthropology from the University of Brasilia, in Brazil. Now, he is a student in the master's program Managing and Cultural Heritage in Global Markets. His research interests are particularly focussed on the representation of love and passion in works of art from Greco-Roman antiquity; in dressing, through the study of clothing used in wedding ceremonies; and in literature, especially in the works of Jane Austen and George Eliot. He is also particularly interested in the intersection in the intersection of study regarding love and passion, and postcolonial studies, to understand how the representation of these emotions occurred during and after the colonial period.
Serena Wong is a PhD Candidate in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her doctoral study situates itself at the crossroads of British modernisms and Chinese modernity, with a focus on the orientalism in Virginia Woolf’s stylistic and formal representations of China. Her research also looks at theoretical and creative studies of ornamentation, which she positions as an important dimension of orientalist thought. Serena has presented her work at conferences organised by the British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS), the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA), the Modern Language Association (MLA), the International Virginia Woolf Society (IVWS), and more. She has served, too, as a postgraduate representative for BAMS, as a co-organiser of the Autotheory: Thinking through Self, Body and Practice conference (2022), and as a co-editor of the University of Glasgow’s postgraduate journal eSharp (2022-2023). Her chapter contribution to the Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives, titled ‘Ornamental Woolf: A New Critical Perspective on Ornamentalism, Orientalism and Virginia Woolf’s “Chinese” Discourse’ has been accepted by the Edinburgh University Press for upcoming publication.
Jenny Alexander is a Researcher and Creative Freelancer specialising in archival and silent film, and film festivals. She recently graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Master’s in Film Curation and has worked with a number of Scottish arts festivals including HippFest, the Edinburgh Fringe, and the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.
Tatiana Köhler is a first-year PhD student in Comparative Literature. Her research has focused mostly on large-scale atrocities and the literature that has emerged from them as a place for knowledge creation, exploration, and reconciliation. Currently, her thesis project focuses on four different genocides and the transcultural narratives that bring them together in Guatemala, Chechnya, Rwanda, and the Holocaust.
Eugina Gelbelman is a first-generation American screenwriter and director from Brooklyn, New York. Her parents are Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union. She graduated from the Film MFA Program at Stony Brook University with a concentration in Screenwriting in 2019. Previously, she attended McGill University where she studied History and Russian Literature and received her Bachelor of Arts degree, with Honours, in 2013. She is a Film Studies PhD Candidate at Glasgow University.
Tatianna Kalb is a writer and editor who recently completed an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She received a BFA in Acting and Classical Civilizations from New York University, where many of her studies were centred on the Epics and the Tragic Stage. Her current literary practices centre on Comparative Literature, as she is now researching the use of Classical mythology in the writings of 19th and 20th century Colombian writers. As a long-time classicist and creative, the main goal of her work, across its multiple forms, is to bring ancient stories to modern audiences, whether through analysis and comparison, adaptation, or original work. Her creative pieces have been published in a variety of indie magazines, and she is currently a volunteer Drama editor for Spellbinder Magazine.
Carrie Foulkes is a doctoral candidate in the DFA Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow. She is a 2024-2025 Harry Ransom Centre Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. She was formerly a guest researcher at the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Linköping University, Sweden, funded by the Turing Scheme. Carrie writes creative nonfiction on environmental and human health, personal and social histories, politics, literature and visual art. www.carriefoulkes.com
Acknowledgements
The Editors of The Kelvingrove Review would like to express our thanks (and those of our contributors) to the following people, without whom this issue would never have seen the light of day:
Laura Cooney, Stephen Greer, Louise Harris, Bryony Randall, Claire Smith, as well as our incredible peer reviewers.