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Faye Hammill FRSE is a professor in the University of Glasgow, specialising in North American and British modern writing in the first half of the twentieth century, what is often called 'middlebrow'. Her recent focus is ocean liners in literature. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2021).

Education and career

Hammill graduated with a First Class degree in English Language & Literature with French from the University of Birmingham (1995) and completed her doctorate four years later in Canadian Literature. She lectured in English for three years at Cardiff University and then spent five years at Liverpool University, becoming senior lecturer in 2006. Moving to Glasgow, Hammill taught English at Strathclyde University for six years, becoming professor in 2011, and part-time Deputy Associate Principal (Research) in 2016.

Since 2017, she has been professor in English Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, and has served on research assessment and peer review groups, as keynote speakers at conferences and published books and other academic research.

Research and publications

Her comparative literature research covered well known publications, such as Cold Comfort Farm, and Anne of Green Gables, the 1934 film version of the latter she said glossed over the character's 'loss, rejection, cruel authority figures, and loneliness', and that the character of Anne Shirley had 'overshadowed' that of her creator.' Hammill has also written about the 'Great American Novel' contender, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. One of her areas of interest in 2002, whilst at Cardiff, was also Canadian literary reviews considering the idea of nature and the 'Gothic'. In 2007, when Hammill was at Strathclyde, she wrote about her research examining literary women and writing between the wars, and the notion of celebrity.

She began the AHRC Middlebrow Network in 2008, which has grown to 400 members. Her international collaboration on Canadian magazines and writing on travel, also grew with a joint project with the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory in 2011, and a book titled Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture published with Michelle Smith, in 2015. Her work studying middlebrow culture looked further at the impact of publications like Vanity Fair (1914–36); American Mercury (1924–81); New Yorker (1925– ); Esquire (1933– ) in a chapter written with Karen Leick in Oxford University Press publication Modernism and the Quality Magazines. The Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, in 2015, funded a 'Modern Magazines project' with Hammill, Hannah McGregor, and Paul Hjartarson, publishing their key findings in the Canadian academic journal English Studies in Canada and in the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. The previous year she had given a keynote lecture for ACCUTE at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Brock University, Canada).

Hammill won a mid-career Fellowship from the British Academy (2015) on Noël Coward and attitudes to print culture or popularity. In 2018, she gave a keynote lecture at the "Big Magazines" conference (Aix-Marseille Université, France) In 2019, the University of Glasgow awarded her a Research Culture Award, for her work in mentoring and supporting early career researchers.

Ocean liners and literature

Hammill's most recent focus has been on the role of ocean liners in modern literature. She has been asked to speak at conferences and events across the country, and internationally. For example, in 2018 at the V&A Museum Ocean Liners Conference; at Nottingham Trent University Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group (2020); at a King's College London 2020 event titled The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Literary Imagination; invited as keynote speaker on 'A business man's dream': Promoting/Narrating the RMS Queen Mary' at the International Postgraduate Port and Maritime Studies Network Belfast conference (2020); and in considering Transatlantic Style: The Ocean Liner and the 'International Set in the second USA Transatlantic Literary Women's series (online 2020).

Hammill has also contributed to telephones in literature (online exhibition) and an English PEN International Women's Day event 'The Right to Roam: Women and Free Expression.

Other selected publications

• Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000 (2003), - see Awards
• co-editor: Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950 (2006)
• Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History (2010) described as 'smart and capacious' - see Awards
• Modernism's Print Cultures (2016) - with Mark Hussey
• co-editor of the Palgrave series: Material Modernisms
• Introduction, new edition Margaret Kennedy's 1941 Where Stands a Wingèd Sentry (2021)
• editor, new edition Martha Ostenso's 1928 The Young May Moon (2022, Borealis Press) Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant

Current research publications

These are published by the University of Glasgow.

Awards

• 2003 - for Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada, the International Council for Canadian Studies' Pierre Savard Award.
• 2010 - for Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)'s biannual book prize in English Literature
• 2011 - Young Academy of Scotland
• 2021 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• 2021 - Fellow of the English Association

See also

• Stella Gibbons : Cold Comfort Farm
• Lucy Maud Montgomery : Anne of Green Gables; Anne Shirley
• Great American Novel
• Martha Ostenso

References

1. ^ "Professor Faye Hammill FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
2. ^ "Faye Hammill | University of Glasgow - Academia.edu". glasgow.academia.edu. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
3. ^ "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Critical Studies - Our staff - Professor Faye Hammill". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
4. Hammill, Faye (2001). "Cold Comfort Farm, D. H. Lawrence, and English Literary Culture Between the Wars". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 47 (4): 831–854. doi:10.1353/mfs.2001.0086. ISSN 1080-658X. S2CID 162211201.
5. Hammill, Faye (1 July 2006). "'A new and exceedingly brilliant star': L. M. Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables," and Mary Miles Minter". The Modern Language Review. 101 (3): 652–670. doi:10.2307/20466900. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 20466900.
6. HAMMILL, FAYE (2005). "'One of the few books that doesn't stink': The Intellectuals, the Masses and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"". Critical Survey. 17 (3): 27–48. doi:10.3167/001115705780996498. ISSN 0011-1570. JSTOR 41556128.
7. Hammill, Faye (1 November 2003). "'Death by Nature': Margaret Atwood and Wilderness Gothic". Gothic Studies. 5 (2): 47–63. doi:10.7227/GS.5.2.5. ISSN 1362-7937.
8. Hammill, Faye (6 October 2007). Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars By Faye Hammill. ISBN 978-0-292-71644-5.
9. "Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture in Canada 1925-1960". www.middlebrowcanada.org. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
10. "Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture". www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
11. Hammill, Faye; Leick, Karen (5 July 2012), Brooker, Peter; Thacker, Andrew (eds.), "Modernism and the Quality Magazines", The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Oxford University Press, pp. 176–196, doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199545810.003.0010, ISBN 978-0-19-954581-0, retrieved 2 October 2021
12. Hammill, Faye; Hjartarson, Paul; McGregor, Hannah (1 March 2015). "Magazines and/as Media: The Aesthetics and Politics of Serial Form - Introduction". ESC: English Studies in Canada. 41 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1353/esc.2015.0006. ISSN 1913-4835. S2CID 146500595.
13. Hammill, Faye. Noël Coward, Print Culture and Popularity (PDF).
14. Hammill (2015). "Noël Coward and the Sitwells: Enmity, Celebrity, Popularity". Journal of Modern Literature. 39 (1): 129–148. doi:10.2979/jmodelite.39.1.129. JSTOR 10.2979/jmodelite.39.1.129. S2CID 146688837.
15. Hammill, Faye (November 2016). "Noël Coward, Rebecca West, and the Modernist Scene". Modernist Cultures. 11 (3): 351–369. doi:10.3366/mod.2016.0145. ISSN 2041-1022.
16. "University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Research and Innovation Services - Research Culture - Research Culture Awards - Previous Winners - Faye Hammill". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
17. "University of Glasgow - Research - Our research environment - Support and Development for Postgraduate Researchers - LKAS PhD Scholarships - Previously Awarded Kelvin Smith PhD Scholarships - 2019/20 Projects - Arts Ocean Liners: Cultures of Promotion". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
18. "V&A · Ocean Liners Conference". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
19. "Events". Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group (PPCRG). 13 May 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
20. "The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Literary Imagination". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
21. "Conference Programme". International Postgraduate Port and Maritime Studies Network. 27 January 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
22. McInally, Reiss (26 January 2018). "Transatlantic Literary Women, Series 2 ⋆ U.S. Studies Online". U.S. Studies Online. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
23. "Online Exhibition". Crossed Lines. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
24. The Right to Roam: Women and Free Expression with Margie Orford and Kerri ní Dochartaigh, retrieved 3 October 2021
25. Hammill, Faye (2003). Literary culture and female authorship in Canada, 1760-2000. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 90-420-0915-2. OCLC 52746796.
26. Encyclopedia of British women's writing, 1900-1950. Faye Hammill, Esme Miskimmin, Ashlie Sponenberg. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. ISBN 1-4039-1692-6. OCLC 62341622.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
27. Hammill, Faye (2010). Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-84631-232-8.
28. "Ask an Academic: Sophistication". The New Yorker. 25 May 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
29. Burstein, Jessica (2010). "The In Crowd". Modernism/Modernity. 17 (4): 917–923. doi:10.1353/mod.2010.0035. ISSN 1080-6601. S2CID 145355244.
30. Levay, Matthew (14 August 2018). ""New Modernisms," edited by Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers". Modernism/Modernity Print Plus.
31. Hammill, Faye; Marshik, Celia; Thacker, Andrew (eds.). Material Modernisms.
32. "Margaret Kennedy, Where Stands A Wingèd Sentry". Handheld Press. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

• British women academics
• Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Living people