Dr Jenny Bavidge
Lecturer in English
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 8331 9882
Email: j.bavidge@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 225
Office Hours for 2009-10
Monday 1-3 pm
Tuesday 2-4 pm
Qualifications
BA (Oxon), PHD (London)
Research
Published on Teen TV, children’s literature and the representation of urban childhood; currently writing Three Theorists of the City for Routledge Critical Thinkers; (with Robert Bond) organiser of 2004 conference City Visions: The Work of Iain Sinclair and co-editor of the Iain Sinclair Special Issue of the Literary London Journal and City Visions, a collection of essays on Sinclair’s work to be published by Cambridge Scholars’ Press. I am on the Editorial Board of the Literary London Journal:
http://www.literarylondon.org.
Book Chapters
'The Metropolitan Playground: London’s Children' in London from Punk to Blair Reaktion Books 2003
'Chosen Ones: Reading the Contemporary Teen Heroine' in Teen TV; Genre, Identity, Consumption BFI 2004
'Treasure Seekers in the City: London in the Novels of E. Nesbit' in The Swarming Streets: Twentieth Century Literary Representations of London Rodopi 2004
Journal articles
'Stories in Space: Representing Children’s Geographies' in Children's Geographies December 2006
Conference papers
'Stories in Space: the Geographies of Children's Literature' Children's Geographies, Brunel University, London, 2005
'Minor-torial Geographies: Children in the Postmodern City' Literary London Conference, Goldsmiths, London, 2003
'The Angel in the House: Space, Memory and Public Art' Narrating the North, Lancaster University, October 2003