Conference Keynote Speaker

Marion Shaw, Emeritus Professor, Loughborough University

Professor Shaw co-founded the first UK English Studies MA with a specific focus on gender, the MA in Women, Gender and Literature at the University of Hull. Her authoritative biography of Winifred Holtby, entitled The Clear Stream, was published in 1999. Her extensive contributions to feminist scholarship also include New Women Writers of the Late Nineteenth Century, written with Lyssa Randolph, Alfred Lord Tennyson in the 'Feminist Readings' series, and Man Is, Woman Does: An Anthology of Work and Gender.