Dr Karen A Lipsedge
Associate Professor in English Literature
Contact
- Email: k.lipsedge@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- School: School of Arts, Culture and Communication
- Department: Department of Humanities
About
I teach on English Literature undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and my teaching tends to focus on 18th-century literature and culture, Black and Asian British literature and culture, and academic writing skills. I also lead two University projects: the Writing and Oral Skills (WOS) Project, which helps students to enhance their academic writing and speaking skills, and the Kingston University Reading Group (KURG) Project. The KURG uses shared reading and discussion to help students, staff and members of the local community to discuss topics such as race, culture, diversity and inclusivity; topics that many of us find it difficult to talk about. I am also an Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) Champion, and the Chair of the Race Equality Charter (REC) Self-Assessment Team; and in May 2017, I was awarded the SU Staff and Student prize for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning at Kingston University.
Areas of specialism
- 18th century English literature
- 18th century British social history and culture
- 18th century British novel
- Academic writing
- Inclusive teaching
- Representing race, ethnicity and identity in British literature and art
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) in English Literature, Queen Mary, University of London
- MA in 18th Century Literature and Culture, Queen Mary, University of London
- PhD on Samuel Richardson and the Representation of the Home, Queen Mary, University of London
- Associate Professor
- KAPS
Professional membership
To support and inform my teaching and research, I am a member of the following professional bodies:
The Leadership Foundation; The Higher Education Academy; the European Association for Teaching Academic Writing; the Education Race Action Group; the Equality Charter Unit; the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Research
My research focuses on 18th-century domestic spaces and its representation in the British novel; identity, people and domestic objects. My publications include ‘‘Enter into thy Closet': Women, Closet Culture and the Eighteenth-Century Novel' Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. John Styles and Amanda Vickery (2007), "I was also absent at my dairy-house": The Representation and Symbolic Function of the Dairy House in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa' (2009), and Domestic Space in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel (2012). Currently, I am research the role of men in the 18th -century home and its representation in the British novel. Publications on this area is forthcoming.
Publications
Number of items: 10.
Article
Lipsedge, Karen (2009) "I was also absent at my dairy-house": the representation and symbolic function of the dairy house in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 22(1), pp. 29-48. ISSN (print) 0840-6286
Lipsedge, Karen (2006) A place of refuge, seduction or danger?: the representation of the Ivy Summer-House in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. Journal of Design History, 19(3), pp. 185-196. ISSN (print) 0952-4649
Lipsedge, Karen (2005) Representations of the domestic parlour in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 17(3), pp. 391-423. ISSN (print) 0840-6286
Book
Lipsedge, Karen (2012) Domestic space in eighteenth-century British novels. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 215p. ISBN 9780230355279
Book Section
Lipsedge, Karen (2017) Social hierarchy and social mobility. In: Sabor, Peter and Schellenberg, Betty A., (eds.) Samuel Richardson in context. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. pp. 296-303. (Literature in context) ISBN 9781107150126
Lipsedge, Karen (2015) Domesticity. In: Day, Gary and Lynch, Jack, (eds.) The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660 - 1789. Chichester, U.K. : Wiley Blackwell. pp. 414-416. ISBN 9781444330205
Lipsedge, Karen (2012) At home: the representation of the domestic interior in the novels of Samuel Richardson and Fanny Burney. In: Saggini, Francesca and Soccio, Anna Enrichetta, (eds.) The house of fiction as the house of life: representations of the house from Richardson to Woolf. Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443839761
Lipsedge, Karen (2007) "Enter into thy closet": women, closet culture and the eighteenth century novel. In: Styles, John and Vickery, Amanda, (eds.) Gender, taste and material culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830. New Haven CT, USA : Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300116595
Conference or Workshop Item
Lipsedge, Karen, May, Steve, Ayoub, Mata and Rogers, David (2015) Developing writing and speaking skills through interactive workshops. In: 37th Annual EAIR Forum Krems 2015: From Here to There: Positioning Higher Education Institutions; 30 Aug - 02 Sep 2015, Krems, Austria. (Unpublished)
Lipsedge, Karen (2014) Pamela goes to the Americas: the Pamela illustrations in eighteenth-century London and the Americas. In: London and the Americas 1492-1812; 17 - 21 Jul 2014, Kingston Upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
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