Emma Wagstaff
Senior Lecturer in French – University of Birmingham
Emma Wagstaff is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Birmingham, and is the Principal Investigator on the British Academy – Leverhulme project ‘1968 in reviews’, of which this site forms part. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary French poetry, and the connections between writing and art in the twentieth century. With this project, she is investigating how creative writers responded to unrest and change through publication in cultural reviews.
Niven Whatley
PhD Researcher in Hispanic Studies – University of Birmingham & Director of Faculty Room Limited
Niven Whatley is a PhD Researcher in Hispanic Studies at the University of Birmingham, writing and researching on Representations of Marginalised Females in Postmillennial Spain and working as Research Assistant for the Protest In Print website and the 1968 in Reviews exhibition and Round-table.
Previously published collaborations have been on New Methods for Self-Regulated and Independent Learning in Secondary Students with the University of Bedfordshire Academic Teaching Fellowship and with a presentation on Representations of Chinese Females in Postmodern Spain as part of the conference Transitions, Transactions, Translations: Europe on the Threshold hosted The University of Birmingham Graduate Centre for Europe.
In additional roles, he is the Director of a tuition and education services provider, Faculty Room Limited and a sometime Teaching Leader in schools.
Ellen Pilsworth
Lecturer in German and Translation Studies – University of Reading
Ellen Pilsworth is Lecturer in German and Translation Studies at the University of Reading. Her work asks how writers from the eighteenth century to the present have used literature to motivate their readers to take political action. Her monograph (in preparation) explores authorial self-stylisation in eighteenth-century poems of war from 1756-1808. She has also researched and taught on the German protest movement and ‘1968’. In 2020 she will begin a three-year research project funded by the British Academy and Wolfson Foundation exploring anti-Fascist publishing in Germany, Austria and Britain from 1927 -1945.
Katie Blair
PhD researcher in Translation Studies – University of Birmingham
Katie Blair gained a degree in Italian at the University of Reading and then an MA in Literature. She worked for over 20 years in the banking and legal sectors and, after being made redundant in 2017 from a senior role heading up a team of probate specialists, she decided to retrain as a translator. Katie has just completed an MA in Translation Studies and is shortly to embark on a PhD at the University of Birmingham. Her academic interests include translation, migration, linguistic human rights, multilingualism and Italian postcolonial/translingual literature.
