Dr Rachel Dickinson Invite to l'university de Pau

Rachel Dickinson is Principal Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University

Dickinson's role will involve co-teaching 'Curating Ruskin in the Pyrenees' to French students on the Master Etudes Anglophones programme with Prof George Landow (Brown University) and Prof Laurence Rousillon-Constanty (l'Université de Pau).

 She is also giving a conference paper at the SFEVE Annual Conference - Mediating Ruskin: Through a Kaleidoscope, Brightly on The Autohagiographic Lens of Ruskin’s St George.

You can find out more about the conference here.

Dr Rachel Dickinson is the Director for Education of the Guild of St George, the charity founded by John Ruskin in 1871 and Principal Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, she teaches English literature from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Her primary research interest is John Ruskin.  Initially, this related to her PhD from Lancaster University on letters by Ruskin, which gave rise to an edited collection: John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters (Legenda 2008).  In addition to publishing on Ruskin, she has given many lectures on him, been interviewed about him by BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland, and curated an exhibition ‘ “Teaching Silkworms to Spin”: John Ruskin and the Ethics of Textiles’ (Ruskin Library, Lancaster University 2013).  Her current research interest is in Ruskin and textiles, and in how Ruskin envisaged sustainable living during the nineteenth century and how this can be reinterpreted for the twenty-first century in areas such as art, business management, crafts, ethical consumerism, museum curation, and even farming and land management.