Miranda Burgess, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Print nationalisms in Britain and Ireland, 1689-1822
SSHRC · 2003 · Principal investigator
$52,635
Cultural characters: genre and cultural nationalism in Britain and Ireland, 1798-1832
SSHRC · 1997 · Principal investigator
$6,757

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Print nationalisms in Britain and Ireland, 1689-1822

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Burgess, Miranda J.

Keywords: England; Scotland; Ireland; Britain; nationalism; romanticism; literature; historiography; print culture; genre theory; postcolonial theory; information technology

$52,635

Cultural characters: genre and cultural nationalism in Britain and Ireland, 1798-1832

Principal investigatorSSHRC1997Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Burgess, Miranda

Keywords: British and Irish literature; romanticism; nationalism; gender; genre; literary theory

$6,757

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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