PhD canditate Simone Herrmann awarded David Almond Fellowship

Simone Herrmann, PhD candidate and research assistant at the English Literature Department, has been awarded the David Almond Fellowship for Research in Children's Literature. The fellowship, supported by Newcastle University and the Seven Stories National Centre for Children's Books, allows Simone unique access to the collections of the Seven Stories archives, including drafts, manuscripts and original press cutting of acclaimed British children's literature authors like M.E. Atkinson or Ursula Moray Williams. During her research visit by the beginning of April 2016 she will have the opportunity to talk about her research on negations of individuals and communities in British Children's Robinsonades to fellow researcher and students at Newcastle University.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/study/postgraduate/funding/almondfellowship.htm
http://www.sevenstories.org.uk/collection