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Professor Anne Schwan is a leading academic in literary and cultural studies at Edinburgh Napier University, where she heads the interdisciplinary Research Centre for Arts, Media and Culture (CAMC), overseeing over 50 staff and research students. She joined the university in 2007 after completing her PhD at Birkbeck, University of London. She serves as the UK representative on the Board of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). Her research focuses on crime and imprisonment, Victorian studies, and gender studies, with a particular emphasis on how incarceration experiences are mediated through literature and culture. She has authored significant works such as Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England (2014) and co-edited The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (2022). Currently, she is preparing a scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four, and exploring representations of gender-based violence in literature.
Education: PhD in Literary Studies from Birkbeck, University of London (completed prior to 2007).
Research Interests:
- Critical study of crime and imprisonment, including prison narratives and reform movements.
- Victorian literature and culture, with attention to penal systems and social reform.
- Gender studies, focusing on intersections of gender and violence in cultural texts.
- Public humanities initiatives, such as prison-university partnerships and digital scholarship.
Community Engagement: Founded an award-winning prison-university collaboration with HMP Edinburgh and co-supervises an ARCS-funded project with Peterhead Prison Museum. Her work bridges academia and public engagement, emphasizing collaborative projects with incarcerated communities.
Grants and Projects:
- Scottish Funding Council grant (£63,592) for the Peterhead Prison Museum project (2023–2027).
- AHRC-funded research on WWI internment camps and German diaspora memories (2018–2019).
Advising: Supervised numerous PhD and MRes students in crime writing, prison studies, Victorian literature, and gender studies, including Molly Devine, Lisa Aref, and Lois Burke.
Labs/Teams: Leads the Centre for Literature and Writing and collaborates with the Tourism Research Centre and the CAMC on interdisciplinary projects.
