Member Profile
Name:
Dr Rebecca Hutcheon
Institution:
University of South Wales
Academic status:
University/college academic
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
cultural geography/spatial theory; digital humanities
Other societies:
Research interests:
Late nineteenth‑ and early twentieth‑century prose, with a particular focus on fin‑de‑siècle writing.
Place, space, spatial theory, literary geography, and the geohumanities.
Digital humanities, especially the mapping of literature, texts, and narrative.
Testing digital tools and methodologies and adapting them for humanities research.
Rethinking mapping practices for literature and for the humanities more broadly.
Challenge‑based research, including projects such as Litcraft (building literary world in Minecraft) and work on reading acquisition.
Travel writing, literary tourism, and literary pilgrimage.
A new project on the senses of place, examining how literary place is constructed through non‑visual senses in writers such as Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, and May Sinclair.
Mapping and ambiguity, including the development of open‑source, simple digital tools created for and by humanities researchers.
George Gissing and the challenge his (and that of his late C19th contemporaries) work poses to conventional understandings of realism.
Place, space, spatial theory, literary geography, and the geohumanities.
Digital humanities, especially the mapping of literature, texts, and narrative.
Testing digital tools and methodologies and adapting them for humanities research.
Rethinking mapping practices for literature and for the humanities more broadly.
Challenge‑based research, including projects such as Litcraft (building literary world in Minecraft) and work on reading acquisition.
Travel writing, literary tourism, and literary pilgrimage.
A new project on the senses of place, examining how literary place is constructed through non‑visual senses in writers such as Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, and May Sinclair.
Mapping and ambiguity, including the development of open‑source, simple digital tools created for and by humanities researchers.
George Gissing and the challenge his (and that of his late C19th contemporaries) work poses to conventional understandings of realism.