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Notes on Contributors
Karen Willis is a full-time third-year PhD candidate in Humanities and Social Sciences at Keele University, studying the influence of middle class married women at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Her research is centred on letters and diaries of such women and their interaction with family, friends and business associates.
Hannah Snell is currently a PhD History candidate at Keele University supported by AHRC funding. Her research explores how enslaved women took advantage of domestic spaces on the plantation to resist middle to upper class white women enslavers during the period of 1861-5. Her research interests examine themes of power, violence, gender, race and class in antebellum America and the Civil War period 1861-5. Both her master’ s in research and undergraduate dissertations in History have explored these current interests and were awarded with academic excellence by Keele University in 2023 and 2024.”
Athena Heavey is a third-year PhD student in English Literature at Keele University, where she also completed her BA and MA degrees in the same subject. Her doctoral research examines the mythologisation of the Holocaust in twenty-first-century genre fiction, addressing questions of memory, trauma, and ethical representation as they intersect with historical atrocity. Her broader research interests include contemporary literature, Holocaust and trauma studies, and cultural memory.