Martin Shaw

Universitetslektor|Senior Lecturer

  • Tjänstetitel: Universitetslektor
  • Akademisk titel: Filosofie Doktor
  • Telefon arbete: +46 (0)10-1428038
  • E-postadress: martin.shaw@miun.se
  • Rumsnummer: MF418
  • Ort: Sundsvall

Bakgrund

Jag kommer från Sheffield i England och flyttade till Sverige under1994. Jag är universitetslektor i engelskspråkig litteratur- och kulturvetenskap vid Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (HSV). Jag skrev min avhandling om resande och Romani/Resande självbiografi vid Umeå universitet och försvarade den i april 2006.

Forskningsområden

The politics of (mis)recognition, the violence of categorisation, the taken for granted, paratextual analysis, nostalgia.

Autobiography studies
Romani/Traveller/Gypsy Life story: UK


Forskning

Autobiography (Life Story)
Postcolonial Criticism
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Politics of (mis)recognition
Romani Studies

Undervisning

Campus, Campus-distans och distans undervisning
Engelskspråkig litteraturvetenskap på grundnivå (A, B, C) och avancerad nivå (inom magisterprogrammet)
Lärarutbildning F-3 och 4-6
Lärarutbildning 7-9, gymnasier
Lärarlyftet F-3 / 4-6
Uppsatshandledning (kandidat och avancerad nivå)
Uppsatshandledning 4-6


Övrigt

Article submitted for publication:

"Selling a Book by its Cover: Nostalgia and Discursive Dissonance in Eva Petulengro’s The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood"

  Journal: Critical Romani Studies

 

 

Publikationer

Artiklar i tidskrifter

Shaw, M. (2024). Paratextual Ethics, Disrespect, and Imperialist Nostalgia in Brother Eagle, Sister Sky : A Message from Chief Seattle. The Lion and the unicorn, vol. 48: 1, ss. 1-23.  

Allan, R. , Shaw, I. & Shaw, M. (2023). Building a Corpus of Written Tasks of Swedish National Tests in English : Motivation, Method and Research Applications. Nordic Journal of English Studies, vol. 22: 2, ss. 128-154.  

Shaw, M. (2021). The End of Imperialisms in Paul Torday’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 28: 2, ss. 761-781.  

Shaw, M. (2019). Za tajemstvím doprovodných textů : Politická agenda v kolaborativním životním příběhu Gordona Silvestera Boswella The Book of Boswell: Autobiography of a Gypsy. ROMANO DŽANIBEN, vol. 26: 1, ss. 67-91.  

Shaw, M. (2018). Intersecting stories and gender support systems in Violet Cannon’s Gypsy princess: The true story of a Romany childhood. Romani Studies, vol. 28: 2, ss. 219-238.  

Shaw, M. (2016). Authentic violence : The changing sameness of ‘real’ Romani discourse in Dominic Reeve’s life story. Romani Studies, vol. 26: 2, ss. 129-149.  

Shaw, M. (2012). Hybridity and Violence in Nan Joyce's Traveller and My Life on the Road. NIS, vol. 11: 1, ss. 63-78.

Shaw, M. (2011). "Warning Signs: Violence and Flexibility in the Story of Irish Traveller Nan Joyce's Arrest". NIS, vol. 10, ss. 79-96.

Shaw, M. (2006). "Hopsvetsade röster". Invandrare och Minoriteter, vol. 3, ss. 21-24.

Doktorsavhandlingar

Shaw, M. (2006). Narrating Gypsies, Telling Travellers : A Sudy of the Relational Self in Four Life Stories. Diss. Umeå : Moderna språk, 2006  

Kapitel i böcker, del av antologier

Shaw, M. (2023). Political Interventions in Space and Place in Uriah Burton's Uriah Burton "Big Just" : His Life, His Aims, His Ideals. I Approaches to a "new" World Literature : Romani Literature(s) as (re)writing and Self-Empowerment. Munich : Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München (Ästhetik(en) der Roma- Selbst-under Fremdrepräsentationen / Romani Aesthetic(s) - self and external representation). S. 47-65.

Shaw, M. (2011). "Warning Signs and Reflexivity in Nan Joyce's Anti-Traveller Protest Story". I Beyond Ireland: Encounters Across Cultures. Bern : Peter Lang Publishing Group (Reimagining Ireland). S. 139-157.

Konferensbidrag

Allan, R. , Shaw, I. & Shaw, M. (2022). Swedish National Tests in English : A corpus resource for teachers. Paper presented at the 15th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) Conference, University of Limerick, Ireland, July 13–16, 2022.    

Shaw, M. (2022). The Time of the Gypsies : Covering Life Stories. I National Assocition for English Studies, 2022. Stockholm, 11-13 May.

Shaw, M. (2021). Fighting for Peace inUriah Burton’s Life Story UriahBurton ”Big Just” His Life, His Aims,His Ideals (1979). I 2021 Gypsy Lore SocietyAnnual Meeting and Conferenceon Romani Studies : Book of Abstracts.. S. 119-  

Shaw, M. (2020). Forgotten and Ignored, but not Defeated : Political Acts and Informal Justice in Romani UriahBurton’s Big Just”: His Life, His Aims, His Ideals (1979).. Paper presented at the Political Literatures, Sundsvall, Sweden, June 16, 2020.

Shaw, M. (2019). Maggie Smith-Bendall's Romany Gypsy Life Story : Judging Books by their Covers. I Book of abstracts. Madrid :

Shaw, M. (2019). Towards Nature: Gordon Boswell’s The Book of Boswell: The Autobiography of a Gypsy (1970) and Beyond. I Book of Abstracts.

Shaw, M. (2016). First Impressions: Romani/Traveller Life Story and the Market. Paper presented at the The 2016 Annual Meeting and Conference on Romani Studies. September 2016. Södertörn University, Stockholm.

Shaw, M. (2010). "We are Irish" : The Violence of Hybridity in Nan Joyce's Traveller. Paper presented at the The Island and the Arts. Nordic Irish Studies Biannual Conference. Tromso, 2-3 December, 2010

Shaw, M. (2008). Warning Signs : The Violence of Flexibility and the Arrest of Nan Joyce. Paper presented at the Rural and Urban Landscape Conference Dalarna University November 6-7 2008

Shaw, M. (2007). Can the True Gypsy Please Leave the Room : Authentic Movements in Gypsy Life Writing. Paper presented at the Exit in Literature, Culture and Life. Umeå University, 29-30 January 2007

Shaw, M. (2006). Forgetting and Re-membering Travellers. Paper presented at the Remembering and Forgetting in Irish Literature and Politics. Nordic Irish Studies Symposium, 8 May 2006

Shaw, M. (2005). Textual and Paratextual Dissonance : Who Speaks? Who Writes? Where, What and When?. Paper presented at the Romani Self-writing Symposium. Department of Modern Languages, Umeå University, 20 May, 2005

Shaw, M. (2003). “Trans(f)lating Theory, Projecting Fears : Warning Signs in Four 19th Century Texts.”. Paper presented at the “Translation 11/2” seminar on translation studies, Umeå University, 8-9 May, 2003

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