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Dr Sonya
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In addition to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching (see tabs below), Sonya is an experienced doctoral supervisor, having supervised eight doctoral students to completion at UON. She has also acted as international supervisor on the Erasmus study abroad and Newton Bhabha fellowship programmes. She is currently supervising eleven PhD projects. She would welcome applications from international and home students especially in the areas of children’s literature, women’s writing, class and trauma.
Sonya is a member of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network, an editorial board member of the Journal of Class and Culture and an advisory board member of the Oxford journal Contemporary Women’s Writing.
She is currently chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Degree Board at UON and UCU Branch Membership Secretary.
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Sonya is currently module leader for the following modules:
- Decolonizing the Bookshelf (level 4)
- From Fairy Tale to Fantasy: Children’s and Young Adult Literature (level 5)
- Bodies and Performances: Thinking Sex and Gender (level 6)
- Trauma Fiction (level 7)
- Gender, Sexuality and Writing the Body (level 7)
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Sonya’s research specialisms are in contemporary women’s writing, especially the representation of gender, race and class; trauma narratives; and children’s and YA literature. She would welcome PhD students working in any of these areas.
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2019
- Andermahr, S. (2019) Decolonizing cultural memory in Andrea Levy’s Small Island. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 55(4), pp. 555-569. 1744-9855.
- Andermahr, S. (2019) Introduction: Brigid Brophy. Contemporary Women’s Writing. 12(2), pp. 137-141. 1754-1484.
2018
- Andermahr, S. (2018) Both/and aesthetics: gender, art and language in Brigid Brophy’s In Transit and Ali Smith’s How to Be Both. Contemporary Women’s Writing. 12(2), 248–263. 1754-1484.
- Andermahr, S. (2018) Special Issue: Brigid Brophy. Contemporary Women’s Writing. 12(2), 137 – 269. 1754-1484.
2017
- Andermahr, S. (2017) Both/and: language, art and identity in Brigid Brophy’s ‘In Transit’ and Ali Smith’s ‘How to Be Both’. Paper presented to: School of Humanities Research Seminar Series, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, 03 May 2017.
- Andermahr, S. (2017) Introduction: Brigid Brophy. Contemporary Women’s Writing. 12(2), pp. 137-141. 1754-1484.
- Andermahr, S. (2017) “You’ve just got to find a way to live there anyway”: the dystopian chronotopes of trauma in Patrick Ness’s More Than This. Panel Presentation presented to: Identities in YA Narratives, The University of Northampton, 16 December 2017.
2016
- Andermahr, S., (ed.) (2016) Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Trauma and Postcolonialism. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. 9783038421955.
2015
- Andermahr, S. (2015) Guest Editor. Humanities. 4(4) Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. 2076-0787.
- Andermahr, S. (2015) “Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Trauma and Postcolonialism”—Introduction. Humanities. 4(4), pp. 500-505. 2076-0787.
- Andermahr, S. (2015) Decolonizing narratives of 1940s Britain in Andrea Levy’s ‘Small Island’. Panel Presentation presented to: Decolonizing Trauma Studies, The University of Northampton, School of The Arts, 15 May 2015. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. (2015) Revisioning cultural memory: alternative narratives of 1940s Britain in Andrea Levy’s ‘Small Island’. Panel Presentation presented to: Memory Frictions: Conflict – Negotiation – Politics, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 06-08 May 2015. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. (2015) Routes of sorrow: narrative healing in women’s grief fiction. Invited Presentation presented to: Routes of Sorrow, NN Contemporary Art Gallery, Northampton, 08-12 April 2015. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. and Simmons, D. (2015) The University of Northampton School of the Arts ‘Opps for Apps’ Project. Panel Presentation presented to: Opps for Apps Symposium, The University of Northampton, School of the Arts, 17 June 2015. (Unpublished)
- Allwork, L. and Andermahr, S. (2015) Welcome: Decolonizing trauma studies. Paper presented to: Decolonizing Trauma Studies, The University of Northampton, School of The Arts, 2015-05-15.
- Allwork, L. and Andermahr, S. (2015) Welcome: Decolonizing trauma studies. Paper presented to: Decolonizing Trauma Studies, The University of Northampton, School of The Arts, 2015-05-15.
2014
- Andermahr, S. (2014) 1970s Feminist Fiction. In: Hubble, N., McLeod, J. and Tew, P. (eds.) The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction :. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. pp. 69-92.
- Andermahr, S. (2014) 1970s feminist fiction. In: Hubble, N., McLeod, J. and Tew, P. (eds.) The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 69-92.
- Andermahr, S. (2014) Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 years on. In: Allen, N. and Simmons, D. (eds.) Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon: From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith :. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. pp. 250-265.
- Andermahr, S. (2014) Hooked on classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 years on. In: Allen, N. and Simmons, D. (eds.) Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon: From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 250-265.
2013
- Andermahr, S. (2013) ‘Compulsively readable and deeply moving’: women’s middlebrow trauma fiction. In: Andermahr, S. and Pellicer-Ortin, S. (eds.) Trauma Narratives and Herstory. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 13-29.
- Allwork, L. and Andermahr, S. (2013) Acts of remembrance. Symposium presented to: The Working Group on Interdisciplinary Research in Trauma, Narrative and Performance Annual Meeting, The University of Northampton, School of the Arts, 10 July 2013. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. (2013) ‘Compulsively readable and deeply moving’: Women’s Middlebrow Trauma Fiction. In: Andermahr, S. and Pellicer-Ortin, S. (eds.) Trauma Narratives and Herstory :. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. pp. 13-29.
- Andermahr, S. and Pellicer-Ortin, S., (eds.) (2013) Trauma Narratives and Herstory. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 9781137268341.
- Andermahr, S. (2013) Working from the wound: trauma and memory in Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Paper presented to: Acts of Remembrance in Contemporary Narratives in English: Opening the Past for the Future, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 24-26 April 2013. (Unpublished)
2012
- Andermahr, S. (2012) ‘Compulsively readable and deeply moving’: women’s middlebrow trauma fiction. Panel Presentation presented to: 11th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE 12), Bogazici University, Istanbul, 04-08 September 2012. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. and Phillips, L., (eds.) (2012) Angela Carter: New Critical Readings. London: Continuum. 9781441169280.
- Jowett, L. (2012) Between the paws of the tender wolf: authorship, adaptation and audience. In: Andermahr, S. and Phillips, L. (eds.) Angela Carter: New Critical Readings. London: Continuum. pp. 23-33.
- Andermahr, S. (2012) Contemporary women’s writing: Carter’s literary legacy. In: Andermahr, S. and Phillips, L. (eds.) Angela Carter: New Critical Readings. London: Continuum. pp. 11-32.
- Andermahr, S. (2012) Gender and the student experience: teaching feminist writing in the post-feminist classroom. In: Ferrebe, A. and Tolan, F. (eds.) Teaching Gender. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 12-30.
- Andermahr, S. (2012) Jeanette Winterson writing mothers and daughters: from ‘Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit’ to ‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal’? Invited Keynote presented to: Writing Mothers\Daughters: 1780-2012, Newman University, Birmingham, 28 June 2012. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. (2012) Mourning, melancholia and melodrama in contemporary women’s grief fiction: Kim Edwards’ ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter’. Paper presented to: Interrogating Trauma in the Humanities, University of Lincoln, 20-23 August 2012. (Unpublished)
2011
- Andermahr, S. (2011) Hooked on classics: ‘Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit’ 25 years on. Invited Keynote presented to: Jeanette Winterson: A Critical Exploration, University of Leeds, 02-03 July 2011. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. (2011) Mourning, melancholia and maternal loss: Kim Edwards’s ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter‘. Invited Keynote presented to: Mothers at the Margins: 6th Australian International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Motherhood, University of Queensland, Australia, 27-30 April 2011. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. (2011) Narratives of maternal loss in contemporary women’s writing: Julie Myerson’s ‘The Story of You’. In: Herrero, D. and Baelo-Allue, S. (eds.) Between the Urge to Know and the Need to Deny: Trauma and Ethics in Contemporary British and American Literature. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter. pp. 71-80.
- Andermahr, S. (2011) Sarah Schulman’s queer diasporas: Empathy and People in Trouble. Textual Practice. 25(4), pp. 711-729. 0950-236X.
2010
- Andermahr, S. (2010) 1970s feminist fiction. Symposium presented to: 1970s Decades Event, Brunel University, London, 12 March 2010. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. (2010) Narratives of maternal loss in contemporary women’s writing: Julie Myerson’s ‘The Story of You’. Paper presented to: Contemporary Women’s Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies: The Third Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA, 07-09 July 2010. (Unpublished)
2009
- Andermahr, S. (2009) An introduction to time and space in Winterson’s short fiction. In: Sonmez, M. J.-M. and Özyurt Kılıç, M. (eds.) Winterson Narrating Time and Space. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
- Andermahr, S. (2009) Jeanette Winterson. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 9780230507609.
- Andermahr, S. (2009) Narratives of maternal loss. Workshop presented to: Mum’s the Word Workshop, De Montfort University, Leicester, 09 January 2009. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. (2009) Narratives of maternal loss in contemporary women’s writing. Paper presented to: Between the “Urge to Know” and the “Need to Deny”: Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary Narrative in English, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 25-28 March 2009. (Unpublished)
- Andermahr, S. (2009) The work of Jeanette Winterson. Seminar Presentation presented to: English Department Seminar, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 22 March 2009. (Unpublished)
2008
- Andermahr, S. (2008) Sarah Schulman’s queer diasporas: People in Trouble and Empathy. Invited Presentation presented to: Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women’s Writing and Diaspora. 2nd Biennial Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network, University of Leicester, 11-13 July 2008. (Unpublished)
2007
- Andermahr, S. (2007) Member of Editorial Board. Contemporary Women’s Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1754-1476.
- Andermahr, S., (ed.) (2007) Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary Critical Guide. London: Continuum. 9780826492746.
- Andermahr, S. (2007) Reinventing the romance. In: Andermahr, S. (ed.) Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary Critical Guide. London: Continuum. pp. 82-99.
- Andermahr, S. (2007) Teaching feminist fiction today. Invited Presentation presented to: Teaching Contemporary Women’s Writing in the 21st Century conference, University of Brighton, Brighton, 15 September 2007. (Unpublished)
2006
- Andermahr, S. (2006) Jeanette Winterson’s Lighthousekeeping. In: Mengham, R. and Tew, P. (eds.) British Fiction Today. London: Continuum. pp. 139-150.
- Andermahr, S. (2006) Lesbian romance? Love and desire in the novels of Jeanette Winterson. Invited Keynote presented to: 14th Middle East Technical University (METU) British Novelists Conference: Jeanette Winterson and Her Work, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 14-15 December 2006. (Unpublished)
2005
- Andermahr, S. (2005) Cyberspace and the body: Jeanette Winterson’s The Powerbook. In: Bentley, N. (ed.) British Fiction of the 1990’s. London: Routledge. pp. 108-122.
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Sonya is the author of eight books and numerous book chapters and journal articles. She is currently working on a project on the significance of class in contemporary women’s writing. See her Pure entry for a list of recent publications.