Role
Dr Katie Jones is a Research Assistant supporting the Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group (PPCRG).
Career overview
Dr Jones holds a degree in English with Education Studies from De Montfort University, and an MA in English Literature from the University of Nottingham. She completed her Midlands3Cities-funded PhD in English at the University of Nottingham in 2021. She has previously worked at the University of Nottingham and the University of Derby.
Research areas
Dr Jones’ PhD thesis, ‘Author, Reviewer and Translator: Katherine Mansfield’s Place in Literary Culture’, examined the extent to which Mansfield’s personal and professional writings could be read as astute expressions of her self-presentation and self-positioning in the literary marketplace.
Research Interests: Katherine Mansfield; literary marketplace; print and publishing culture; modernist magazines; twentieth century writing; feminist literature; John Middleton Murry; Beatrice Hastings; D. H. Lawrence.
External activity
Dr Jones is a member of the Katherine Mansfield Society and has presented her work at several institutions including the University of Nottingham, Queen Mary University of London, Birkbeck University of London, and the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in Los Angeles. She has previously carried out outreach and impact work for the D. H. Lawrence Research Centre at the University of Nottingham.
Sponsors and collaborators
Dr Jones’ research has been funded by the AHRC (Midlands3Cities), and she was the recipient of the University of Nottingham’s Graduate School Travel Prize in 2018.
Publications
Book Chapter:
Jones, Katie. L., ‘‘Something Sensational and New’: Katherine Mansfield’s Engagement with the Literary Marketplace in London, 1908-09’. In Aimée Gasston, Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson (eds.) Katherine Mansfield: New Directions (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), pp. 143-156.