PhD Student's Prize-winning Paper

Alice's PhD thesis, “Mechanic Art and Elocutionary Science”: Speech Production in British Literature, 1770s-1820s, argues that physiological, political and poetic studies of speech became increasingly popular, and took on new radical significance in British literature in the politically turbulent period from the 1770s to 1820s. Alice's prize-winning paper, "Radical Birdcalls: Avian Voices and the Politics of the Involuntary" will be published in Essays in Romanticism.

Alice also received an honourable mention in the graduate student paper prize at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in Chicago, for her paper, "'Transcripts of the heart': John Thelwall and Romantic Era Shorthand Writing", which explored the work of a fascinating radical orator and early speech therapist.