Dr Madeleine Davies

Biography

I am Senior Tutor for English Literature and I am involved in a wide range of activities and initiatives. As Senior Fellow of the HEA I sit on the FLAIR 'College of Assessors', and I am currently co-leading the TLDF-funded 'Diversifying Assessments' project in the Department of English Literature. I lead an annual student-facing International Women's Day event, initiated the 'Gender, Sexuality and Identities' Forum, and sit on the SSLC, the SBTL and the Senior Tutor Community of Practise. I initiated and continue to lead the 'Resilience Master Class' series in my School: this collaborative Programme involves three Master Classes developed to enhance students' wellbeing, personal and academic effectiveness, and employability. The Programme has been Showcased University-wide (May 2017). I also contribute to the 'Professional Track' programme in my School, leading an 'Assertiveness in Writing' class, and I will be assisting RUSU in training new course reps from October 2017.Dissemination and Outreach As well as publishing research-led work, I contribute articles about pedagogic innovation to a range of UofR blogs (including Diversity and Inclusion, T&L Exchange, SLL blog, and T&L blog) and I have written articles for 'Spark' (the student newspaper) when invited to do so. I have also contributed to films for the University (see IWD), my department, and for RUSU, and I contribute to radio interviews when requested. I participate in Outreach activities such as the Wokingham Schools 'Federation Day' (February 2017).My current research projects include work on 'visual framing' in the novels of Margaret Atwood, and an analysis of herstorical biofiction in connection with texts produced by of Atwood, Woolf and Mantel. Connecting with a range of theorists of the postmodern, this research asks whether what is historically 'known' can only be understood in terms of the biofictional interrogation of the 'fact'/'fiction' interface. Memberships HEA (Senior Fellow) MLA The Margaret Atwood Society The Virginia Woolf Society The Fawcett Society Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Women@Reading The Monroe Group

Research Interest

My research-led teaching focuses on Women's Writing and Feminist Theory, particularly the work of Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood Maddi Davies Publications . I have published widely on Margaret Atwood in particular and I have also published work on Contemporary British Drama and Television Drama. Maddi Davies Research . My early publication career focused on drama (my monograph discusses the theatre of Peter Shaffer), when I was also post-doctoral research fellow on 'The BBC Wednesday Play' project (HEFCE funded). My more recent work focuses on feminisms and I am a peer reviewer for the journal, Contemporary Women's Writing (OUP).