Mary McMurran, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

The philosophy and poetics of embodied soul, 1680-1750
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$20,732
Paganism and sacralization in the 18th century
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$41,828

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The philosophy and poetics of embodied soul, 1680-1750

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McMurran, Mary Helen

Keywords: soul; mind; embodiment; lyric poetry; philosophy; seventeenth century; eighteenth century

$20,732

Paganism and sacralization in the 18th century

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: McMurran, Mary Helen

Keywords: paganism; polytheism; European enlightenment; eighteenth-century British literature; sacred; secularism; Indigenous religions; primitivism

$41,828

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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