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Kate MACDONALD (Dr.) Ph.D. (University College London, 1991) |
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Research interests
- Book history and print culture, 1880-1950
- Readership and reception studies
- Middlebrow literature, 1880-1950
- John Buchan, Dornford Yates, Angela Thirkell, Una L Silberrad
Recent publications
- Macdonald, K ‘Introduction: Identifying the middlebrow, the masculine, and Mr Miniver’, in Macdonald K (ed.), The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950: What Mr Miniver read¸ Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming 2011).
- Macdonald, K, ‘John Buchan’s breakthrough: The conjunction of experience, markets and forms that made The Thirty-Nine Steps’, Publishing History (forthcoming 2011)
- Macdonald K, ‘The war-wounded and the congenitally impaired: Competing categories of disability in John Buchan’s Huntingtower (1922)’, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 4:1 (2011), 7-20.
- Macdonald K, ‘The use of London lodgings in middlebrow fiction, 1900-1930s’, Literary London, 9: 1 (2011)
- Macdonald, K; ‘Edwardian transitions in the fiction of Una L Silberrad (1872-1955) ‘ English Literature in Transition, 54.1 (2011), 212-233.
- Macdonald, K 'Thomas Nelson & Sons and John Buchan: mutual marketing in the publisher's series', in The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, vol 1. Authors, Publishers, and the Shaping of Taste, ed John Spiers, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 156-70.
- Macdonald, K ‘Dorothy’s Literature Class: late-Victorian women autodidacts and penny fiction weeklies’, in A Return to the Common Reader, eds Adeline Buckland and Beth Palmer, Ashgate Publishing, 2011, 23-35.
- Demoor M and Macdonald K, Victorian Periodicals Review ‘Finding and defining the Victorian supplement’, Victorian Periodicals Review, 43.2 (Summer 2010), 97-110.
- Macdonald K, and Demoor, M, ‘Saving, spending and serving: expressions of the use of time in the Dorothy and its supplements (1889-1899)’, Media History 16.2 (2010), 171-182.
- Macdonald K (ed.), Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps, Pickering & Chatto, 2009.
- Macdonald K, John Buchan: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, McFarland & Co, Jefferson, NC (2009).
- Macdonald, K, and De Ridder, J, ‘Mrs Warren’s professions: Eliza Warren Francis (c. 1810-1900), editor of The Ladies’ Treasury (1857-1895) and London boarding-house keeper’, Publishing History, 66 (2009), 5-17
- Macdonald K, ‘The diversification of Thomas Nelson: John Buchan and the Nelson archive, 1909-1911’, Publishing History 65, 2009, 71-96.
- Macdonald K, ‘Hunted men in John Buchan’s London, 1890s to 1920s’, Literary London, 7:1 (2009)
- Macdonald, K ‘Introduction’, in Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps, ed Macdonald K, Pickering & Chatto, 2009, 1-6.
- Macdonald, K ‘Aphrodite rejected: Archetypal female characters in Buchan's fiction’, in Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps, ed Macdonald K, Pickering & Chatto, 2009, 153-169.
- Macdonald K, ‘Ignoring the New Woman: ten years of a Victorian weekly fiction magazine’, in Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, ed Tamara S Wagner (New York: Cambria Press, 2009), 297-316.
Teaching(2011-2012)
- (semester 1) Writing for Mass-Communication in the United States, Postgraduate Program in American Studies
- (semester 2) BA2 Historische overzicht: oefeningen
Extra-curricular
- Erasmus coordinator for the English Department
- Creative Writing Group
- English Theatre Company
- Foreign Academic Researchers in Belgium (www.foreignacademics.net)
Memberships
- The John Buchan Society
- The Angela Thirkell Society
- The Middlebrow Research Network (http://research.shu.ac.uk/middlebrow-network/)
- The Rudyard Kipling Society
- BAAHE (Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education)
- ISCH (The International Society for Cultural History)