Publications
- K. Myler. 'Han Kang.' The Literary Encyclopedia. 19 October 2021.
- K. Myler. 'Penelope Ruth Mortimer.' The Literary Encyclopedia. 28 February 2020.
- K. Myler. 'Doris Lessing, Anti-psychiatry, and Bodies that Matter.' Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 437–460.
- S. Parkes, A. Benkwitz, H. Bardy, K. Myler, J. Peters. 'Being more human: rooting learning analytics through resistance and reconnection with the values of Higher Education.' Higher Education Research & Development (2020) 39.1, 113-126.
- A. Benkwitz, S. Parkes, H. Bardy, K. Myler, J. Peters, A. Akhtar, P. Keeling, R. Preece, T. Smith. 'Using student data: Student-staff collaborative development of compassionate pedagogic interventions based on learning analytics and mentoring'. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education (25), 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhlste.2019.100202.
- K. Myler. ‘Food, Duty and Desire in the Women’s Novel in the 1960s’, The Routledge Companion of Literature and Food ed. by Lorna Piatti-Farnell & Donna Lee Brien (Routledge, 2018), pp. 66-75.
- K. Myler. 'Sex, Censorship and Identity' in The History of British Women's Writing, Vol IX, 1945-1975, ed. by C. Hanson & S. Watkins (London: Palgrave, 2017), pp. 108-123.
- K. Myler. Book Review: Robert Rubenstein's Literary Half-Lives in Contemporary Women's Writing 9.2 (2015), pp. 305-307.
- K. Myler. ‘“Something New”: Madness and Mothering in Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City', Doris Lessing Studies 31.1&2 (2013), pp. 15-20.
- K. Myler. 'You can't judge a book by its coverage: the body that writes and the television book club', in The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader: Popular Texts and the Practices of Reading, ed. by J. Ramone and H. Cousins (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 85-107.
I welcome proposals from potential PhD candidates in the areas of: contemporary women's writing; Doris Lessing studies; feminist and queer theory projects; literature and psychoanalysis, psychiatry and mental health. Newman regularly offers full student scholarships - please see the Newman Research Studentship webpage.
Recent conference papers
- 'Cli-Fi won't save us but women's short story cycles might', Nantes University, France (April 2023)
- 'Women’s short story cycles: from nationalism to environmentalism', International Contemporary Women's Writing Association Conference: Locations and Dislocations, Algoma University, Ontario, Canada (July 2019)
- 'Han Kang, feminist politics, and experiments in form', CWWA 2018 Conference: Writing Wrongs, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne (Sept 2018)
- ‘Doing contemporary literature through local events and virtual spaces', BACLS: What Happens Now?, Loughborough University (July 2018)
- 'Han Kang’s translated works and the future of the short story form', Beyond History: The Radiance of the Short Story, University of Lisbon, Portugal (June 2018)
- ‘Making an Incision: Penelope Mortimer’s early fiction’, British Women’s Writing between 1930 and 1960: ‘Influences and Connectivity’, Chichester University (May 2017)
- ‘Gender, Madness and Bestiality in Contemporary Women’s Writing’, 'Literature, the Human and the Non-human', Humanities Research Group Seminar Series, Newman University (April 2017)
- ‘Gender, Madness and Bestiality in Contemporary Women’s Writing’, C21 Animal Voices Symposium, Brighton (Nov 2016)
- ‘With Suspicious Intent: Teaching the Pleasures of Short Fiction’, Child of the Century: Reading & Writing Short Fiction, Edge Hill (May 2016)
- ‘“Our great obsession”: Post-war women’s writing and the escape from sex censorship’, International Women’s Day Conference 2016: Resounding Voices, St. Aiden’s College, Durham University (March 2016)
For a full list, see CV.
Conference and event organisation
- 'CWWA: The September Sessions', CWWA (Sept 2020)
- 'Addressing Sexism in HE', Birmingham & Midlands Institute (Feb 2017)
- Festival Book Group: Nice Work, Birmingham Literature Festival (Oct 2015)
- Alys Always Reading Project, West Midlands Readers' Network & Newman University (2014)
- ‘Writing Mothers\Daughters: 1780-2012’ at Newman University with Dr Julia Banister, Leeds Metropolitan University (June 2012)
Editing, reviewing, and research roles
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Professional Development
Reflections on Research, BACLS (March 2021)
Impact and Funding, Newman (Jan 2017)
Research Funding and Impact in the Humanities, Newman (Nov 2014)
Research Development Day, Newman (Nov 2014)
Research Strategy Workshop, Newman (Oct 2014)
CWWSkills series, various locations (2013-2014) - see below
Ways to Print: Reflections on Researching, Writing and Publication, Newman (Jan 2014)
Ethics in Research, Newman (Jan 2014)
How to Turn Your Thesis into a Book, Southampton (Feb 2009)
How to get Published, Southampton (April 2008)
Structuring and Writing Your PhD, Southampton (April 2007)
Writing Skills and Techniques, Southampton (Jan 2007)
Personal Organisation and Time Management for PGRs, Loughborough (March 2006)
Reading for Research, Loughborough (Feb 2006)
Creative Thinking, Loughborough (Jan 2006)
Conference Presentation Skills, Loughborough (Jan 2006)
Impact and Funding, Newman (Jan 2017)
Research Funding and Impact in the Humanities, Newman (Nov 2014)
Research Development Day, Newman (Nov 2014)
Research Strategy Workshop, Newman (Oct 2014)
CWWSkills series, various locations (2013-2014) - see below
Ways to Print: Reflections on Researching, Writing and Publication, Newman (Jan 2014)
Ethics in Research, Newman (Jan 2014)
How to Turn Your Thesis into a Book, Southampton (Feb 2009)
How to get Published, Southampton (April 2008)
Structuring and Writing Your PhD, Southampton (April 2007)
Writing Skills and Techniques, Southampton (Jan 2007)
Personal Organisation and Time Management for PGRs, Loughborough (March 2006)
Reading for Research, Loughborough (Feb 2006)
Creative Thinking, Loughborough (Jan 2006)
Conference Presentation Skills, Loughborough (Jan 2006)
Contemporary Women's Writing Skills Development Series
The AHRC-funded Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Development Programme (CWWSkills) was comprised of six workshops, held between August 2013 and July 2014 (an additional writing retreat workshop was added at the end of the programme). The programme was designed to help PGRs and ECRs working in the field of contemporary women’s writing to develop an entrepreneurial approach to their research. Admission to the programme was based on a competitive application process. Sessions included:
- Workshop 1: 'Publishing & Contemporary Women's Writing', 31 August 2013, University of Southampton
- Workshop 2: 'Communicating More Effectively Within & Beyond the Classroom’, 18 January 2014, Liverpool John Moores University
- Workshop 3: 'Careers & Employability', 22 March 2014, Leeds Metropolitan University
- Workshop 4: 'Creating New Audiences for Contemporary Women's Writing', 10 May 2014, University of Brighton
- Workshop 5&6: 'Digital Mapping, Media Training' and 'Reflections on the CWW Skills Programme', 19-20 July 2014, University of Lincoln
- Workshop 7: 'Weekend Writing Retreat', 13th-14th September 2014, Collwick Hall Nottingham