Christine Roulston, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

School daze: queer nostalgia in modern British girls' boarding school narratives
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$39,590
Lesbianism on trial: an enquiry into cases of deviant female sexuality from the 19th to the early twentieth centuries
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$50,415
A 15-volume critical edition entitled Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny
SSHRC · 2004 · Co-investigator
$146,463

All 6 grants and awards

No publications available.

School daze: queer nostalgia in modern British girls' boarding school narratives

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Roulston, Christine M.C.

Keywords: boarding school narratives; twentieth-century literature; queer theory; literary theory; postcolonial theory

$39,590

Lesbianism on trial: an enquiry into cases of deviant female sexuality from the 19th to the early twentieth centuries

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Roulston, Christine M.C.

Keywords: sexuality; lesbian history; law; literature

$50,415

A 15-volume critical edition entitled Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Dainard, James A.

Keywords: critical edition; unpublished letters; 18th century woman; novelist; playwright

$146,463

A 14-volume critical edition entitled Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny

Co-investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Dainard, James

Keywords: critical edition; unpublished letters; 18th-century woman; novelist; playwright

$105,000

Rewriting marriage: Gender and identity in early English and French marriage narratives, 1700-1820

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Roulston, Christine

Keywords: gender; identity; English and French narratives; 1700-1820

$27,913

International and Interdisciplinary Bilingual Conference on the Hand London ON 1999/03/19 - 1999/03/21

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Roulston, Christine

Keywords: Hand; international; bilingual; exchange forum; interdisciplinary; hum anities; social sciences; medicine

$10,000

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 Roulston, 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 "School daze: queer nostalgia in modern British girls' boarding school narratives" (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]