Dr Sophie Heywood
Responsibilities
Areas of Interest
History of children's literature and publishing; women's writing; the cultural and religious history of modern France.
I co-organise with Dr Nicola Wilson from English Literature the seminar series Archives and Texts.
For more information on our seminars and speakers, see: http://archivesandtexts.wordpress.com/
Areas of postgraduate supervision:
I welcome enquiries concerning research supervision in any of my areas of research interest.
Research groups / Centres
I am part of a group of researchers from the Modern Languages and English Departments who have secured funding from the Leverhulme Trust to undertake a three-year project to promote the preservation of, and access to, literary archives held worldwide. A network involving partners from around the world will give the project an international relevance. More information about the project and its progress can be found at: http://www.diasporicarchives.com/
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 Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden.
Publications
2018
- Heywood, S. and Boulaire, C. (2018) Children’s 68 Introduction. Strenae (13). ISSN 2109-9081 (In Press)
- Heywood, S. (2018) Power to children’s imaginations May ’68 and counter culture for children in France. Strenae (13). ISSN 2109-9081 (In Press)
2017
- 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
2016
- Heywood, S. (2016) Francophone literary archives at risk. In: Sutton, D. (ed.) The Future of Literary Archives: Diasporic and Dispersed Collections at Risk. Arc. (In Press)
- Heywood, S. (2016) The children’s collections at the University of Reading. Strenae, 11. 1625. ISSN 2109-9081
- Heywood, S. (2016) Pippi Longstocking, juvenile delinquent? Hachette, self-censorship and the moral reconstruction of postwar France. Itinéraires, 2015 (2). 2903. ISSN 2427-920X doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/itineraires.2903
- Heywood, S. (2016) Modernising and moralising: Hachette’s fiction series for children, 1950s-1960s. Strenae, 11. 1640. ISSN 2109-9081 doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/strenae.1640
2015
- 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://doi.org/10.1177/0265691415585221
2013
- 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://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2012.722613
2012
- 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://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crs010
- Heywood, S. (2012) L’enfant et la littérature d’enfance dans le discours catholique au XIXe siècle. Cahiers Séguriens (10). pp. 48-52.
2011
- 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, pp240. ISBN 9780719084669
2007
- Heywood, S. (2007) 'Petits garçons modèles: la masculinité catholique à travers l'oeuvre de la comtesse de Ségur'. In: Revenin, R. (ed.) 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
Book reviews:
Review of Encounters with Wild Children. Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature. By Adriana S. Benzaquén. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth January 2010
Review of Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in NIneteenth-Century France. By Christine Adams. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2010, French History, published online 30 December 2012
Qualifications
MA Hons, Edinburgh; PhD, Edinburgh
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
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