Dr Sophie Heywood

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+44 (0) 118 378 7322
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Associate Professor
Admissions Officer
Office
Miller 123Building location
Miller buildingAreas of interest
- The history of children's literature and publishing
- Children's books in translation
- Children's culture in the Cold War and after 1968
- Feminism
- The cultural and religious history of modern France
Postgraduate supervision
I welcome enquiries concerning research supervision in any of my areas of research interest.
Current supervisions:
- Nouf Alsayed: Subtitling culture for the audience in Saudi cinema.
- Emma D. Page: A study of children’s literature in translation using data from Outside in World. Co-supervisor: Dr Catherine Butler (Cardiff).
- Assya Belahmar Louazani: The Women’s Hammam: An experienced space of representation in Maghrebi Literature & film.
Teaching
At Part 1 I convene the module FR1MMF ‘The Making of Modern France’, and teach on children's literature for the module ML1TRANS/EN1TRANS 'Thinking Translation: History and Methods'.
At Part 2 I convene the module FR2CHF Children’s Books in France.
At Part 3 I convene the module FR3M68/ HS3M68 May 68, and teach on the module ML3IC ‘Identity and Conflict in Modern Europe’, and teach translation for the core French language module.
Research centres and groups
I am a co-director of the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP), along with colleagues in Italian, English Literature and Typography. We undertake research in book cultures and publishing with a distinctive global, multilingual and multidisciplinary focus. Information on our research projects, opportunities and seminars can be found at the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) site.
In partnership with Outside in World, the organisation dedicated to promoting and exploring world literature and children’s books in translation, I convene the CBCP x OIW webinar series on Translating for Children. Recordings of previous webinars are available on the CBCP Youtube channel.
Research projects
In 2016, I was awarded a LE STUDIUM/ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship, based at the University of Tours, to lead the research project 'The Children's '68', on the impact of the '68 years on cultures of childhood, working with scholars in countries including Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden. More information on the project and its outcomes can be found at: https://children68.hypotheses.org/
Between 2012-2015 I was part of a group of researchers from the Modern Languages and English Departments who secured funding from the Leverhulme Trust to undertake a three-year project to promote the preservation of, and access to, literary archives held worldwide. More information about the project can be found at: http://www.diasporicarchives.com/.
Awards and honours
Research grants and awards
- Junior Research Fellowship, Institute of Historical Research, October 2007-May 2008
- Scholarship, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, October 2004-October 2007
- Awarded the University of Reading Research Endowment Trust Fund 'Best Research Output Prize' 2012, Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, for the monograph on the comtesse de Ségur: http://www.reading.ac.uk/research/Highlights-News/risingstars/res-retf2012heywood.aspx
- Co-investigator, Leverhulme International Network, Diasporic Literary Archives: Questions of Location, Ownership and Interpretation, 2012-15
- Principal Investigator LE STUDIUM/ Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellowship, Université de Tours François-Rabelais, ‘The Children’s ‘68/ Le ’68 des enfants’ 2016-17
Publications
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Wilson, N.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-840X , Batershill, C. , Heywood, S.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4197-0041 , Joseph, M. , La Penna, D.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4197-0041 , Southworth, H. , Staveley, A. , Willson Gordon, E. , eds. (2023) The Edinburgh companion to women in publishing, 1900-2000. Edinburgh University Press , Edinburgh. (In Press)
- Heywood, S. , eds. (2023) Popular piety and the state in modern France. French History French History ISSN: 1477-4542 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fh/crac072 (Special issue)
- Heywood, S. (2022) Les chaînons de la production de masse pour enfants. Le département jeunesse de la maison Hachette dans les années 1950-1970. In: Glinoer, A. , (eds.) Les maisons d’édition francophones au prisme de leurs archives. Les Éditions des Archives contemporaines , Paris.
- Heywood, S. (2020) Gender in children’s literature in Europe. Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique de l'Europe ISSN: 2677-6588
- Heywood, S. (2020) L’affaire du Petit Livre rouge des écoliers et lycéens (1969). La Revue de la BNF , 60
- Heywood, S. (2020) Fighting 'on the side of little girls': feminist children's book publishing in France after 1968. Nottingham French Studies , 59 (2). pp. 206-220. ISSN: 0029-4586 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2020.0285
- Heywood, S. (2020) Violence, enfance et maternité : l’épopée de la sphère domestique dans Les Petites Filles Modèles (1858) de la Comtesse de Ségur. In: Lévy-Bertherat, D. and Zamour, F. , (eds.) L’Épopée des petites filles. éditions L’Improviste , Paris. ISBN: 9782913764682
- Heywood, S. and Strandgaard Jensen, H. (2018) Exporting the Nordic children’s ’68: the global publishing scandal of The Little Red Schoolbook. Barnboken Journal of Children's Literature Research , 41 ISSN: 2000-4389 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.14811/clr.v41i0.332
- Heywood, S. (2018) The publishers’ spring? Mai ’68 and the ‘radical revolution’ in French children’s books. Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung , 2018 ISSN: 2568-4477 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.23795/JahrbuchGKJF2018-heywood (Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society)
- Heywood, S. (2018) Children’s 68: introduction. Strenae (13). ISSN: 2109-9081 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/strenae.1998
- Heywood, S. (2018) Power to children’s imaginations: May ’68 and counter culture for children in France. Strenae (13). ISSN: 2109-9081 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/strenae.1838
- Heywood, S. and Boulaire, C. (2018) 1968:lLa culture enfantine en ébullition. La Revue des livres pour enfants (299). pp. 174-181.
- Heywood, S. (2018) Francophone literary archives at risk. In: Sutton, D. and Livingstone, A. , (eds.) The Future of Literary Archives: Diasporic and Dispersed Collections at Risk. Arc pp. 75-88. ISBN: 9781942401575
- Heywood, S. (2017) Un regard croisé sur le genre: la réception de la comtesse de Ségur en Angleterre, 1859-1900. In: Connan-Pintado, C. and Behoteguy, G. , (eds.) Être une fille, un garçon dans la littérature de jeunesse (2) Europe 1850-1950. Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux , Bordeaux. pp. 119-132. ISBN: 9791030001174
- Heywood, S. (2016) The children’s collections at the University of Reading. Strenae , 11 ISSN: 2109-9081
- Heywood, S. (2016) Modernising and moralising: Hachette’s fiction series for children, 1950s-1960s. Strenae , 11 ISSN: 2109-9081 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/strenae.1640
- Heywood, S. (2016) Pippi Longstocking, juvenile delinquent? Hachette, self-censorship and the moral reconstruction of postwar France. Itinéraires , 2015 (2). ISSN: 2427-920X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/itineraires.2903
- Heywood, S. (2015) Missionary children: The French Holy Childhood Association in European context, 1843-c.1914. European History Quarterly , 45 (3). pp. 446-466. ISSN: 1461-7110 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691415585221
- Heywood, S. (2013) Adapting Jules Verne for the baby-boom generation: Hachette and the Bibliothèque Verte, c.1956-1966. Modern and Contemporary France , 21 (1). pp. 55-71. ISSN: 1469-9869 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2012.722613
- Heywood, S. (2012) L’enfant et la littérature d’enfance dans le discours catholique au XIXe siècle. Cahiers Séguriens (10). pp. 48-52.
- Heywood, S. (2012) ‘The Apostolate of the Pen’: Mgr De Ségur and the mobilization of Catholic opinion in Second Empire France. French History , 26 (2). pp. 203-221. ISSN: 1477-4542 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fh/crs010
- Heywood, S. (2011) Catholicism and children’s literature in France: the comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874). Studies in Modern French History Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp 240. ISBN: 9780719084669
- Heywood, S. (2007) 'Petits garçons modèles: la masculinité catholique à travers l'oeuvre de la comtesse de Ségur'. In: Revenin, R. , (eds.) Hommes et masculinités de 1789 à nos jours. Contributions à l’histoire du genre et de la sexualité en France Editions Autrement , Paris. ISBN: 9782746709881