Dr Kirsty Bunting
Senior Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
PGCE HE Postgraduate Certificate in teaching (HE) Man Met Uni (2017)
PhD. University of Birmingham. (Oct 2003-Sept 2007)
Thesis Title: “The Possibilities for Collaboration between Late-Nineteenth-Century Women Writers”
MA in Shakespeare Studies. Shakespeare Institute, the University of Birmingham (Oct 2001-Oct 2002)
Thesis Title: “The Politics of Offence on the Jacobean Stage”
BA (Hons) in English Literature. University of Stirling (Sept 1996-Aug 2000)
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE PROJECT:
Projects
Local Youth Engagement Project, established November 2014.
Aided by funding from Hefce UnLtd, my colleague Orlagh McCabe and I work with local high schools and community groups. We offer interactive history, literature and culture workshops which investigate and record how ideas of citizenship, gender equality and enfranchisement affect the lives of young people in and around Crewe today, with particular emphasis on how young people identify themselves as politically dis/enfranchised and how they prepare for their first experiences of voting.
The workshops’ content is inspired by the life and writings of suffragist Ada Nield Chew who came to national attention following her letter writing campaign to the Crewe Chronicle in the 1890s. The project itself was inspired by the forthcoming centenary of The Representation of the People Act (1918) which granted (some) women the right to vote for the first time.
We also offer the workshop to adult learners and community groups and we have taken the workshop to The Children’s Rights Society’s ‘International Children’s Rights Conference’, hosted by MMU Cheshire in November 2015.
The project also incorporates a Community Conference, a Mitchell and Kenyon ‘Crewe on Film’ Open Night, appearance at ‘Women of WW1/ International Woman’s Day event’ (People’s History Museum, 2 March 2016).
The project website and blog can be found at http://www.localyouthengagement.org/
And on twitter @lye_Crewe
Teaching
Supervision
Research outputs
Academic Publications
OUP Special Issue Article: ‘Experimental Aesthetics and the shared life-writing of Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson’ in Special Issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies Journal on ‘Co-Constructions of Self: Nineteenth-Century Collaborative Life-Writing’. Ed Lynn M. Linder April 2016.
Special Issue Journal Article: ‘Alice and Viola Meynell: Mothering, Mentorship and Modernism’ Women’s Writing Special Issue on “Generations” Eds. Doreen Thierauf and Lauren Pinkerton (Routledge Press, winter 2017) 2018
Book Chapter: ‘Besant and Collaborative Practice in Theory’ in Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform Ed by Kevin Morrison University of Liverpool Press, 2019
Special Issue Journal Article: ‘Ada Nield Chew: Radicalisation and Professionalization, 1894-1900’ in Victorians: Journal of Culture and Literature Special Issue on ‘Women of the Press in the 1890s’, Eds. Deborah Logan, Clare Horrocks and Alyson Hunt. Winter 2017/18 7000 words (formerly Victorian Newsletter, Ohio University Press, now in its 65th year).
Book Chapter: ‘The New Woman in her Confinement: Fin de siècle constructions of Maternity and Motherhood’ in Intersections of Gender, Class and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond, Ed. Barbara Leonardi, Palgrave MacMillan, Winter 2018.
Case Study in Book: ‘Feminism, the Vote and Youth Engagement: A Cheshire Case Study’ for Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption and Change, edited by Jenna Ashton, Published by Museums Etc., March 2018. 2000 words.
Entry for ‘Companion’: “Victorian Popular Collaboration” 850 word entry in The Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction Ed. Prof. Kevin Morrison (McFarland, Winter 2017) 850 words
‘England’s Forgotten Suffragist’ in BBC History Extra Magazine (21 Dec 2016) http://www.historyextra.com/article/bbc-history-magazine/england%E2%80%99s-forgotten-suffragist
“’The imprint of what-has-been’: Arthur Quiller-Couch, Daphne du Maurier and the writing of Castle Dor”, Journal of Cornish Studies. Series 2, Number 21 (University of Exeter Press, November 2013)
“Mary Cholmondeley’s Dreams of Futurity in Votes for Men (1909) and ‘The Dark Cottage’ (1919)” Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered. Eds. Carolyn Oulton and SueAnn Schatz (Pickering and Chatto, November 2009
“’The Very Stage and Theatre of our Dramatic Happiness’: Scenes from Michael Field’s Rottingdean” The Michaelian, Vol. 1 (2009)
“Victorian Literary and Cultural Contexts” co-authored with Rhian Williams, in The Victorian Literature Handbook. Eds. Alexandra Warwick and Martin Willis (London: Continuum Press, 2008). pp 44-88.
Novels (as Kiley Dunbar):
One Summer’s Night (Hera book and audible audiobook, 2019)
Christmas at Frozen Falls (Hera Books and Saga Egmont audiobook, Sept 2019)
Summer at the Highland Coral Beach (Hera Books and Saga Egmont audiobook, March 2020)
One Winter’s Night (Hera Books and Saga Egmont audiobook, Sept 2020) Shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel Award 2021
The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday (May 2021, Hera Canelo)
Matchmaking at Port Willow (Hera Books and Saga Egmont audiobook, Sept 2021)
Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop (Sept 2022)
Borrow a Bookshop Book III (Spring 2023)
Primary Research Specialism: English Literature 1880s-1910s especially:
Radical Suffrage/The life and Work of Ada Nield Chew,
North of England Suffrage/tte networks,
Collaborative writing/Literary Relationships,
Women’s Writing/Feminism,
Aesthetics,
Archival Research,
Authorship Theory,
Also, new work on popular contemporary romance writing forthcoming
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Dunbar, K. (2023) The Gingerbread Christmas Village A totally uplifting and romantic seasonal read. Hera books Ltd.
Dunbar, K. (2022) Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop A heartwarming, cosy, utterly uplifting romcom - the perfect read for booklovers!. Hera books Ltd.
Dunbar, K. (2021) Matchmaking at Port Willow An uplifting, beautifully romantic read that will warm your heart. Hera books Ltd.
Dunbar, K. (2021) The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday A gorgeously uplifting read - booklovers will love this heart-warming romcom!. Hera books Ltd.
Bunting, K. (2020) One Winter's Night. Hera Canelo.
Dunbar, K. (2020) Summer at the Highland Coral Beach A romantic, heart-warming, and uplifting read. Hera books Ltd.
Dunbar, K. (2019) Christmas at Frozen Falls.
Dunbar (Bunting_, K.K. (2019) One Summer's Night. Hera books Ltd.
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Chapters in books
Bunting, K. 'Mary Cholmondeley’s Red Pottage and the 1890s.' In Gavin, A., Oulton, C. (ed.) Reassessing Women’s Writing of the 1880s and 1890s In the series From Brontë to Bloomsbury: Realism, Sensation, and the New in Women’s Writing from the 1840s to the 1930s Edited by Adrienne E. Gavin and Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton.
Bunting, K. (2019) '' Walter Besant, Collaboration and the Marketplace' in Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform.' In Morrison, K. (ed.) Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform. University of Liverpool Press,
Bunting, K. (2018) 'The New Woman in her Confinement: Fin de Siècle Constructions of Maternity and Motherhood.' In Leonardi, B. (ed.) Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan,
Bunting, K. (2018) 'Victorian Popular Collaboration (encyclopaedia style entry).' In Morrison, K. (ed.) Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Macfarland,
Bunting, K. (2018) 'The New Woman in Her Confinement: Fin-de-siècle Constructions of Maternity and Motherhood.' Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. pp. 67-89.
Bunting, K. (2018) '' Walter Besant, Collaboration and the Marketplace'.' Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform. University of Liverpool Press,
Bunting, K., McCabe, O. (2017) 'Feminism, the Vote and Youth Engagement: A Cheshire Case Study.' In Ashton, J.C. (ed.) Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption and Change Volume 2. Museums Etc, pp. 401-415.
Bunting, K. (2015) 'Dreams of futurity in 'Votes for Men' and ‘The Dark Cottage’.' Mary Cholmondeley reconsidered. Pickering & Chatto,
Bunting, K. (2010) '“Mary Cholmondeley’s Dreams of Futurity in Votes for Men (1909) and ‘The Dark Cottage’ (1919)”.' In Oulton, C., Schatz, S. (ed.) Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered. London: Pickering & Chatto Limited, pp. 161-172.
Bunting, K., Williams, R. (2008) 'Literary and cultural contexts.' The Victorian literature handbook. Continuum,
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Internet publications
McCabe, O., Bunting, K. (2016) ‘Ada Nield Chew: Forgotten Suffragist’. http://www.historyextra.com/article/bbc-history-magazine/england%E2%80%99s-forgotten-suffragist.
Bunting, K. (2009) The very stage and theatre of our dramatic happiness: scenes from Michael Field’s Rottingdean. http://www.thelatchkey.org/Field/MF1/buntingarticle.htm.
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Journal articles
Bunting, K. (2018) '“Authorship prevails in nurseries”: Alice Meynell, Mother/Mentor/Muse.' Women's Writing, 26(2) pp. 229-244.
Bunting, K. (2017) '“Thank God for the Public Press, Which Sheds Its Strong White Light on All the Dark Corners of the Earth!”: Ada Nield Chew’s Journey From Factory Girl To Author-Activist.' Victorians: Journal of Culture and Literature, 132pp. 134-147.
Bunting, K., McCabe, O. (2016) 'Ada Nield Chew: England’s forgotten suffragist.' BBC History Extra,
Bunting, K. (2016) '‘Feelings of Vivid Fellowship’: Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson’s Quest for Collaborative ‘Aesthetic Sociability’.' Forum For Modern Language Studies, 52(2) pp. 203-217.
Bunting, K. (2013) '“’The imprint of what-has-been’: Arthur Quiller-Couch, Daphne du Maurier and the writing of Castle Dor”, Journal of Cornish Studies. Series 2, Number 21 (University of Exeter Press, November 2013).' Cornish Studies, 21pp. 260-275.
Press and media
Media appearances or involvement
BBC History Extra Magazine (21 Dec 2016) ‘Ada Nield Chew: England’s Forgotten Suffragist’, an essay by Kirsty Bunting and Orlagh McCabe: http://www.historyextra.com/article/bbc-history-magazine/england%E2%80%…