Claire Battershill, University of Toronto

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Latest funding

`Lighting the Windows of the Past': Feminist and Queer Poetics, Data Visualization, and Creative Engagements with Literary and Historical Special Collections
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$72,719
Printing Community
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$24,229

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`Lighting the Windows of the Past': Feminist and Queer Poetics, Data Visualization, and Creative Engagements with Literary and Historical Special Collections

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Battershill, Claire

Keywords: special collections; book history; archives; feminist methods; queer methods; critical information studies; data visualization; digital humanities; poetics; materiality

$72,719

Printing Community

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Battershill, Claire

Keywords: printing history; book history; local history; newspaper history; letterpress; printmaking

$24,229

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 Dear Professor Battershill, 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 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 "`Lighting the Windows of the Past': Feminist and Queer Poetics, Data Visualization, and Creative Engagements with Literary and Historical Special Collections" (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]