Alison Chapman, University of Victoria

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Victoria profile.

Nineteenth-century literature and culture Victorian poetry women's writing Anglo-Italian studies digital humanities

Latest funding

Scaling Up: Victorian Periodical Poets, Poetry, and Poetics
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$94,448
Scaling Up: Victorian Periodical Poets, Poetry, and Poetics
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$36,768
Victorian periodical poetry: ephemera, culture, forms
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$269,133

All 4 grants and awards

No publications available.

Scaling Up: Victorian Periodical Poets, Poetry, and Poetics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chapman, Alison

Keywords: Victorian literature; Victorian era; Victorian poetry; periodicals; digital humanities; book history; literary editing; literary encoding; personography

$94,448

Scaling Up: Victorian Periodical Poets, Poetry, and Poetics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chapman, Alison

Keywords: Victorian literature; Victorian era; Victorian poetry; periodicals; digital humanities; book history; literary editing; literary encoding; personography

$36,768

Victorian periodical poetry: ephemera, culture, forms

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chapman, Alison

Keywords: Victorian poetry; digital humanities; print culture; prosody studies; popular cuture; history; media studies; ephemera; authorship; poetics; canon formation

$269,133

Channel crossings: Victorian literature and Europe

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Chapman, Alison

Keywords: Victorian literature; Europe; contact zone; travel; transnational

$58,956

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: Nineteenth-century literature and culture Dear Professor Chapman, 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 nineteenth-century literature and culture 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 "Scaling Up: Victorian Periodical Poets, Poetry, and Poetics" (2023), 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]