Colette Colligan, Simon Fraser University

Research

Oscar Wilde history of journalism digital humanities LGBTQ

Latest funding

Wilde News Abroad: International Journalism and Oscar Wilde's London Sex Trials
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$75,641
SFU-UVIC Digital Pedagogy Network
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$35,444
Creating and training a network of digital humanities scholars on the Lower Mainland
SSHRC · 2014 · Co-investigator
$23,785

All 5 grants and awards

Wilde News Abroad: International Journalism and Oscar Wilde's London Sex Trials

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Colligan, Colette

Keywords: Oscar Wilde; history of journalism; digital humanities; LGBTQ

$75,641

SFU-UVIC Digital Pedagogy Network

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Colligan, Colette

Keywords: digital pedagogy; digital humanities; open access; open social scholarship; student training and mentoring; network building and outreach

$35,444

Creating and training a network of digital humanities scholars on the Lower Mainland

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: McElduff, Siobhan R.

Keywords: digital humanities; digital editions; 3D modeling; data mining; visualization; text analysis; content management; digital preservation; databases

$23,785

The Victorian invention of uncensored books

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Colligan, Colette

Keywords: censorship; translation; foreign literature; victorian book history and print culture

$91,878

European obscenity and its visual turn, 1860-1930

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Colligan, Colette

Keywords: print and media culture; obscenity studies; late nineteenth and early twentieth-century European literature and culture; late nineteenth and early twentieth-century visual culture; studies of European modernity

$66,797

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Oscar Wilde Dear Professor Colligan, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on oscar wilde connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Wilde News Abroad: International Journalism and Oscar Wilde's London Sex Trials" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]