Dr Sophie Heywood
Responsibilities
Admissions Officer for the Department of Languages and Cultures.
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 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.
Areas 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.
Research groups / Centres
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/
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: http://www.research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/
Postgraduate supervision
I welcome enquiries concerning research supervision in any of my areas of research interest.
Publications
2020
- 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. (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://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2020.0285
2018
- 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://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://doi.org/10.23795/JahrbuchGKJF2018-heywood (Yearbook of the German Children’s Literature Research Society)
- 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) Children’s 68: introduction. Strenae (13). 1998. ISSN 2109-9081 doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/strenae.1998
- Heywood, S. (2018) Francophone literary archives at risk. In: Sutton, D. C. and Livingstone, A. (eds.) The Future of Literary Archives: Diasporic and Dispersed Collections at Risk. Arc, pp. 75-88. ISBN 9781942401575
- Heywood, S. (2018) Power to children’s imaginations: May ’68 and counter culture for children in France. Strenae (13). 1838. ISSN 2109-9081 doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/strenae.1838
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) 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
Encyclopaedia Entries:
'Gender in children’s literature in Europe 19th-21st centuries/ Le genre dans la littérature pour enfants en Europe xixe-xxie siècles', Digital Encyclopedia of European History, 2019
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
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
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