Anthony Purdy, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Archive anxiety: the archival imaginary in contemporary visual and literary culture
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$77,934
The artist's house museum in 19th-century England and France
SSHRC · 2007 · Co-investigator
$69,190
Heterotopia: an interdisciplinary account
SSHRC · 2003 · Principal investigator
$126,324

All 4 grants and awards

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Archive anxiety: the archival imaginary in contemporary visual and literary culture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Purdy, Anthony

Keywords: archive; literature; visual arts; film; memory; archival imaginary; interarts

$77,934

The artist's house museum in 19th-century England and France

Co-investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Elliott, Bridget J.

Keywords: artists' houses; maisons-musées; house museums; studios; nineteenth-century English culture; 19th-century French culture; interior design; decorative arts; interiority; collecting

$69,190

Heterotopia: an interdisciplinary account

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Purdy, Anthony

Keywords: heterotopia; foucault; interdisciplinarity; interarts; intermedia; literature; visual culture; migration of concepts; place; space; taxonomy; collection; archive; museum; new media; modernity

$126,324

The presence of the past: On the representation of cultural memory

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Purdy, Anthony

Keywords: Culture; memory; literature; chronotope; mnemotope; interdisciplinarity; museum; collecting; exhibition; zoo

$55,650

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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