Professor Faye Hammill
- Professor of English Literature and Canadian Studies (English Literature)
telephone:
01413304405
email:
Faye.Hammill@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 202, 5 University Gardens, Glasgow, GL12 8QH
Research interests
For my current project see the Ocean Modern website. My research area is early to mid-twentieth-century literature. I have specialisms in:
- Maritime literary studies
- Periodicals and print culture
- Transatlantic modernist and middlebrow cultures
- Canadian studies
Ocean Liners
My project "Ocean Modern" was funded by an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement fellowship in 2023-24. It investigates the powerful symbolism and contested meanings of the ocean liner in twentieth-century literature. I'm also exploring the liner as a space for literary activity: looking at reading, writing, printing and bookselling afloat. Public engagement work was arranged in partnership with Artemis Scotland, a heritage interpretation company. I appeared in Sky History's "Secrets of the Lost Liners" series from 29 April 2024.
I've published two journal articles emerging from this research and am working on a book. I have supervised a related PhD project by Eamonn Connor (completed 2024) funded by a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith studentship. I have given numerous talks and keynote lectures on ocean liners, some for academic and some for general audiences. In connection with my interest in maritime heritage, I am a member of the Education and Tourism Sub-Committee of the Friends of the TS Queen Mary, a Trustee of the Unicorn Preservation Society and a board member at The Shipyard Trust.
Editions
My edition of a 1929 novel, The Young May Moon, by Canadian-American-Norwegian author Martha Ostenso was published in 2022 by Borealis Press, and funded by a Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant. I wrote the Introductions for two novels published by Handheld Press: Sylvia Thompson's The Gulls Fly Inland (1941), republished in 2024, and Margaret Kennedy's WWII memoir Where Stands a Wingèd Sentry, republished in 2021. Here is a video of the book launch for the Kennedy volume. I also spoke at a public event on Kennedy organised by English P.E.N. I am a member of the Textual Editing Lab at the University of Glasgow.
Monographs
In 2016 I published my sixth monograph, Modernism's Print Cultures (Bloomsbury), with Mark Hussey. My previous books include two prize-winning monographs, Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History (2010), winner of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)'s biannual book prize in English Literature, and Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada (2003), winner of the International Council for Canadian Studies' Pierre Savard Award.
Middlebrow, Modernist, and Magazines Research
In 2008, I set up the AHRC Middlebrow Network, which now has over 400 members. Several of my later projects developed from the Network: for instance, "Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture in Canada", funded by the AHRC, and involving collaboration with the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC). The book emerging from this project, co-authored with Michelle Smith, appeared in 2015. One of the talks, focusing on fashion and given at the Tailored Trades network event in Exeter, is available online. A related project that I was a CI on is "Modern Magazines Project Canada", led by Hannah McGregor and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Hannah and I, with Paul Hjartarson, edited linked special issues of two journals on the topic of "Magazines and/as Media." The issue of English Studies in Canada is now available open-access. I also held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2015) for a project on "Noël Coward, Print Culture and Popularity", which was centred on themes of cutural hierarchy.
In 2022 I contributed to BBC Radio 4's "Front Row", talking about Walton and Sitwell's Facade (1922). Here's a blogpost that I wrote for Anthem Press on the topic of middlebrow, and one from 2020 for the "Circulating American Magazines" project, on "What is a mass-circulation magazine?"
I am co-editor of Palgrave's book series "Material Modernisms", and a member of the University of Glasgow's 'Modernism, Avant-Garde and Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture' research cluster. I am a patron of the International Magazine Centre.
Publications
Selected publications
Hammill, F. (2023) Ocean liners in Canadian literature. British Journal of Canadian Studies, 35(1), pp. 21-47. (doi: 10.3828/bjcs.2023.2)
Hammill, F. and Ostenso, M. (2022) The young May moon. [Scholarly Editions]
Hammill, F. (2020) The frantic Atlantic: ocean liners in the interwar literary imagination. Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 24(1/2), pp. 157-177.
Hammill, F. and Hussey, M. (2016) Modernism's Print Cultures. Series: New modernisms series. Bloomsbury Academic: London. ISBN 9781472573285
Hammill, F. and Smith, M. (2015) Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture: Canadian Periodicals in English and French, 1925-1960. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781781381403 (doi: 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381403.001.0001)
Hammill, F. (2010) Sophistication: a Literary and Cultural History. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781846312328
Hammill, F. (2007) Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars. Series: Literary modernism series. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292726062
Hammill, F. (2007) Canadian Literature. Series: Edinburgh critical guides to literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748621613
Hammill, F. (2003) Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000. Series: Cross/cultures (63). Rodopi: Amsterdam ; New York, NY. ISBN 9789042009158
All publications
Grants
2023 Being Human Festival (AHRC-BA-SAS) Small Award £2,721
2022 AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellowship. "Ocean Modern". £134,144
2021 Federation for Social Sciences and Humanities (Canada),
Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme. $8,000 Cdn.
2018 Outreach Award, Canada-UK Foundation. £2,873
2017 "Martha Ostenso's The Young May Moon: A Critical Edition." Carnegie Trust. £3,973.
2016 Outreach Award, Canada-UK Foundation. £1,057
2015 Federation for Social Sciences and Humanities (Canada)
Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme. $8,000 Cdn
2015 Outreach Award, Canada-UK Foundation. £1,015.
2014 British Academy (BA) Mid-Career Fellowship:
"Noël Coward, Print Culture and Popularity". £56,469.
2014 SSHRC (Canada) Connections Grant: "Magazines and/as Media." CI. $19,078 Cdn
2014 Royal Society of Edinburgh. Fellows' travel assistance grant (£950).
2012 European Society for the Study of English award. €1500.
2011 AHRC Research Grant: "Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture." PI. £218,162.
2009 ESRC Seminar Series: "Nostalgia in the 21st Century." CI (5 investigators). £19,290
2008 AHRC Research Networks award:
"Middlebrow: A Transatlantic Interdisciplinary Research Network." PI. £42,029.
2008 Eccles Centre, British Library. £2,000.
2008 Canadian High Commission /BACS travel grants. £500.
2006 AHRC Research Leave for Canadian Literature book. £20,200.
2006 BA Overseas Conference Grant for Modernist Studies Asscn, Tulsa. £500.
2004 BA Small Research Grant for interwar women writers book project. £1,500.
2004 Centre for Canadian Studies, University of British Columbia. £2,500.
1996-7 Canadian High Commission /BACS travel grants. £1000 total.
1995 BA Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Fees and stipend, 1 year.
Supervision
I am available to discuss potential PhD or masters projects in Canadian or American literature (especially of the early 20th century), middlebrow culture, periodicals, or maritime topics.
I am currently second supervisor for Kari Sund, working on the Hollywood novel, and Nadia-Terese Laguna Franks, working on post-truth fiction.
I have supervised 10 PhDs to completion as lead supervisor. Most recently, at Glasgow, I supervised Eamonn Connor, working on ocean liners and leisure cruising, and Alexandra Abletshauser, working on Canadian fiction in the 19th and early 20th centuries. At the University of Strathclyde, where I worked from 2007 to 2017, I was lead supervisor for David Rush, for a PhD on Nancy Mitford; Rachael Alexander, whose thesis was published as Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s; Zhen Liu, with a project on Asian-Canadian Literature which was published as several articles; Sarah Galletly, whose research was on work, class and gender in turn-of-the-century Canadian writing; and Emma Sterry, whose thesis was published as The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture. At Cardiff University I supervised Sarah Bruton's PhD on witches in twentieth-century writing, and Meichuen Wang's on Canadian historical fiction, and at the University of Liverpool I supervised Ashlie Sponenberg's thesis on British women's writing of the 1930s.
- Franks, Nadia Terese Laguna
What is Post-Truth Literature? Navigating Western Disaster..
Teaching
In 2024 I was shortlisted for a Student Teaching Award for "Best Feedback".
My teaching specialisms include American and Canadian literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and periodical studies.
I regularly teach a course on "Canadian Literature" that is available to Senior Honours or M.Litt students, and contribute to numerous other courses in English Literature.
I have contributed teaching materials online to the Winifred Eaton Archive project and the MLA Commons.
Professional activities & recognition
Prizes, awards & distinctions
- 2021: Fellow (Royal Society of Edinburgh)
- 2021: Fellow (English Association)
- 2012: Book Award for Literatures in the English Language (European Society for the Study of English)
- 2004: Pierre Savard Book Award (International Council of Canadian Studies)
- 2001: Fellow (Advance HE (HE Academy))
Research fellowships
- 2023 - 2024: AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship
- 2015 - 2015: British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
- 2008 - 2008: Eccles Centre Fellowship, British Library
Grant committees & research advisory boards
- 2018 - 2021: Research Excellence Framework 2021, Panellist, UoA 25 Area Studies
- 2012 - 2014: Research Excellence Framework 2014, Panellist, UoA 27 Area Studies
- 2018 - 2021: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, PhD panel
- 2014 - 2015: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Research Incentive Grants panel
- 2004 - 2013: AHRC, Peer Review College member; panellist; panel chair
- 2021 - 2022: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Adjudication committee, Aid to Scholarly Journals
Editorial boards
- 2023 - ongoing: Research in Maritime History book series (Liverpool UP)
- 2020 - ongoing: Modernism / modernity
- 2019 - ongoing: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
- 2018 - ongoing: Book History
- 2016 - ongoing: English Studies in Canada
- 2015 - ongoing: Anthem Series in Book History
- 2009 - ongoing: Canadian Literature
- 2009 - ongoing: Journal of Commonwealth Literature
- 2009 - ongoing: British Journal of Canadian Literature
- 2009 - ongoing: Imaginations
- 2006 - ongoing: Studies in Canadian Literature
Professional & learned societies
- 2011 - 2016: Member, Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland
- 2001 - 2009: Council Member, British Association for Canadian Studies
- 2008 - 2014: Executive Committee Member, Council for College and University English
Selected international presentations
- 2023: Keynote, Transatlantic Studies Association (University of Plymouth)
- 2020: Keynote, International PG Port and Maritime Studies Network conference (Belfast)
- 2018: Keynote, "Big Magazines" conference (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
- 2014: Keynote, ACCUTE at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Brock University, Canada)
- 2013: Keynote, International Rebecca West Society (New York University, US)
- 2012: Keynote, "Literary Fame" conference (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Supplementary
- Co-editor, Palgrave "Material Modernisms" book series (2018-) Associate editor, International Journal of Canadian Studies (2010-13) Editor, British Journal of Canadian Studies (2004-2009)
Additional information
A full CV is available on my academia.edu page.
Recent achievements
- Fellowship of Royal Society of Edinburgh, awarded 2021
- Fellowship of the English Association, awarded 2021
- University of Glasgow Research Culture Award, winner in 2019
Career history
2016-17 - Deputy Associate Principal (Research, KE and Innovation), University of Strathclyde
2011-17 - Professor of English, University of Strathclyde
2007-11 - Senior Lecturer in English, University of Strathclyde
2001-07 - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English, Cardiff University
1999-01 - Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool
1995-99 - PhD in Canadian Literature, University of Birmingham
1992-95 - BA (Hons) English with French, University of Birmingham
Roles at University of Glasgow
- Research Convener, School of Critical Studies (2024-)
- Director, Arts Lab (2020-2022) and Deputy Director (2018-20)
- Deputy REF Champion, English Language and Literature (Sept 2018-)
- University Research Strategy and Policy Committee (2018-2021)
- GCRF Co-ordination Group (2018-2020)
- Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Panel D representative (2017-18)