Dr Karen A Lipsedge

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Karen A Lipsedge
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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 am also a Senior Teaching and Learning Adviser for Access, Participation and Inclusion, and as part of that work I 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 also work with students and course teams to provide opportunities to have meaningful and courageous conversations about race.

In 2020, I helped to set up the KU BAME Staff Network, I am also an Academic Rep for the Faith and Spirituality Team and for the Harassment Contact Scheme, and I am an Inclusivity (EDI) Champion. I was the Chair of the Race Equality Charter (REC) Self-Assessment Team for the successful 2019 Bronze Renewal submission and, in May 2017, I was awarded the SU Staff and Student prize for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning at Kingston University.

My published research focuses on the representation of the home in the 18th-century British Novel. Currently, I am working on a new project which focuses on the 18th- century home and the representation of race and space.

Academic responsibilities

Associate Professor in English Literature

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 SL

Teaching and learning

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 am also a Senior Teaching and Learning Adviser for Access, Participation and Inclusion, and as part of that work I 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 also work with students and course teams to provide opportunities to have meaningful and courageous conversations about race.

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

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 researching the representation of the home in 'The Woman of Colour' (Anon). 

In 2020, I was invited by the British Society for 18-Century Studies to be the co-lead for Access and Diversity. As part of this work, my aim is to increase awareness among 18th century scholars, new and experienced, of those hidden British 18th-century people and stories who are hiding in plain sight.

Areas of specialism

  • 18th century novel
  • 18th century home and material culture
  • 18th century culture, society and the arts and its representation in 18th century and contemporary media texts, from art and fiction to television and film.
  • representations of race and space in the 18th century home

Scholarly affiliations

  • British Eighteenth Century Society
  • American Eighteenth Century Society

Publications

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Number of items: 18.

Article

Agnew, Eadaoin, Alliez, Eric, Auerbach, Paul, Blackburn, Robert, Botting, Fred, Brady, Mary, Caygill, Howard, Chadwick, Howard, Chanter, Tina, Choat, Simon, Chu, Jonathan, Cinpoes, Radu, Coultas, Valerie, Dines, Martin, Dixon, Paul, Favretto, Ilaria, Finn, Peter, Giaxoglou, Korina, Goldsmith, Carlie, Hallward, Peter, Hawkins, Sue, Haywood, Peter, Higginbottom, Andrew, Ichijo, Atsuko, Isaac, Marina, Jensen, Meg, Kayyali, Reem, Kettyle, Ann, Lambrou, Marina, Latimer, Amanda, Linton, Marisa, Lipsedge, Karen, Malabou, Catherine, O Maoilearca, John, McQuillan, Martin, Micklethwaite, Paul, Morgan Wortham, Simon, O'Brien, Catherine, Osborne, Peter, Pinnock, Winsome, Piper, Jason, Ponto, Maria, Raphael, Sam, Reid, Trish, Roberts, Mike, Rogers, David, Sandford, Stella, Searby, Michael, Siddiki, Jalal Uddin, Smart, Jackie, Spencer, Philip, Stockhammer, Engelbert, Stuart, John, Suess, Eleanor, Swift, Allan, Upstone, Sara, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Wells, Julian and Wilson, Scott (2014) Education should be a right for all. The Guardian,

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

Hague, Stephen and Lipsedge, Karen, eds. (2022) At home in the eighteenth century : interrogating domestic space. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 378p. (Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies) ISBN 9780367276799 (In Press)

Lipsedge, Karen (2012) Domestic space in eighteenth-century British novels. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 215p. ISBN 9780230355279

Book Section

Hague, Stephen G. and Lipsedge, Karen (2022) Conclusion : Assessing eighteenth-century domestic space. In: Hague, Stephen G. and Lipsedge, Karen, (eds.) At home in the eighteenth century : interrogating domestic space. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 325-330. (Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies) ISBN 9780367276799 (In Press)

Hague, Stephen G. and Lipsedge, Karen (2022) Introduction. In: Hague, Stephen G. and Lipsedge, Karen, (eds.) At home in the eighteenth century : interrogating domestic space. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 1-17. (Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies) ISBN 9780367276799 (In Press)

Lipsedge, Karen (2022) Reading 'Pamela' through the domestic parlour : rooms, social class, and gender. In: Hague, Stephen G. and Lipsedge, Karen, (eds.) At home in the eighteenth century : interrogating domestic space. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 42-57. (Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies) ISBN 9780367276799 (In Press)

Lipsedge, Karen (2021) The meaning of home. In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) A cultural history of the home in the age of enlightenment. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 19-36. (Cultural Histories Series) ISBN 9781472584250

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

Paliokosta, Paty, Lipsedge, Karen, Cunningham, Matthew, Barker, Christopher, Calabrese, Gianpiero, Mulrooney, Hilda, Groves, Konami, Davies, Rachel, Burden, Penny, Bailey, Joanna and Topcu, Mel (2021) The value of the Personal Tutor Scheme (PTS) as a mechanism of supporting belonging in an online world. In: Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference: Making Connections, Innovating and Sharing Pedagogy; 29-30 Jun 2021, Milton Keynes, U.K. (Held online). (Unpublished)

Paliokosta, Paty, Lipsedge, Karen, Cunningham, Matthew, Barker, Christopher, Calabrese, Gianpiero, Mulrooney, Hilda, Groves, Konami, Davies, Rachel, Burden, Penny, Bailey, Joanna and Topcu, Mel (2021) The value of the Personal Tutor Scheme (PTS) as a mechanism of supporting belonging in an online world. In: Festival of Learning 2021; 25 Jun 2021, Kingston upon Thames, U.K. (Held online). (Unpublished)

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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