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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)
The University of Birmingham Visiting Lecturer in English Literature (January 2007-March 2009)
The Victorian Plays Digitization Project, University of Worcester (AHRC) Research Assistant: Proof reader and mark-up editor (April 2006 to January 2007)
This AHRC funded digitization project gave open access to hundreds of plays from the Thomas Hailes Lacy (theatrical printer and publisher) “Lacy’s Acting Edition of Victorian Plays” archive. Project Director: Professor Richard Pearson. The finished database can be accessed at: http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/
In total: 2 PhD supervisions in progress and 4 Masters by Research completions. 2 Internal Examiner Completions and one PhD internal scrutineer role.
2016 - present Co-supervisor - PhD on Ruskin and Sustainability
2015-present Co-supervisor - PhD on Literary Rochdale/Spacial Geographies and the North of England
28 December 2015 – Subject Specialist Interviewer and internal scrutineer for an English Literature PGR
2014-15:
Internal Examiner - Masters by Research on Margaret Atwood writing men.
2013/14:
Co-supervisor Masters by Research on Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’.
Co-supervisor Masters by Research on ‘Epic form in transition’.
2010-11:
Co-supervisor Masters by Research on ‘Thomas Hardy and the Regional Novel Form’.
Co-supervisor Masters by Research on ‘Edgar Allen Poe and the Uncanny’.
Primary Specialism: English Literature 1880s-1910s (PhD, Victorian Literature, 2008) 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,
Secondary Specialism: Early Modern, especially Stuart, drama and Shakespeare Studies (MA Shakespeare Institute, 2002)
Book Reviews Editor for Latchkey: Journal of New Woman Studies
2014 - Present.
The Latchkey is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal devoted to the concept of the ‘New Woman’, covering the lives and writings of ‘New Women’ authors and figures, the representation of the ‘New Woman’ in literature, culture, art, and society, proto-feminism and early feminist journalism, and current innovative scholarship on the New Woman. The publisher is The Rivendale Press. http://thelatchkey.org/Latchkey7/7home.htm
K. Bunting (2019). ' Walter Besant, Collaboration and the Marketplace' in Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform. K. Morrison. In: Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform. University of Liverpool Press,
K. Bunting (2018). “Authorship prevails in nurseries”: Alice Meynell, Mother/Mentor/Muse. Women's Writing. 26(2), pp.229-244.
K. Bunting Mary Cholmondeley’s Red Pottage and the 1890s. A. Gavin, C. Oulton. In: 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.
K. Bunting (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.
K. Dunbar (2023). The Gingerbread Christmas Village A totally uplifting and romantic seasonal read. Hera books Ltd.
K. Dunbar (2022). Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop A heartwarming, cosy, utterly uplifting romcom - the perfect read for booklovers!. Hera books Ltd.
K. Dunbar (2021). Matchmaking at Port Willow An uplifting, beautifully romantic read that will warm your heart. Hera books Ltd.
K. Dunbar (2021). The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday A gorgeously uplifting read - booklovers will love this heart-warming romcom!. Hera books Ltd.
K. Bunting (2020). One Winter's Night. Hera Canelo.
K. Dunbar (2020). Summer at the Highland Coral Beach A romantic, heart-warming, and uplifting read. Hera books Ltd.
K. Dunbar (2019). Christmas at Frozen Falls.
KK. Dunbar (Bunting_ (2019). One Summer's Night. Hera books Ltd.
K. Bunting (2018). “Authorship prevails in nurseries”: Alice Meynell, Mother/Mentor/Muse. Women's Writing. 26(2), pp.229-244.
K. Bunting (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.
K. Bunting (2013). ‘‘The imprint of what-has-been’: Arthur Quiller-Couch, Daphne du Maurier and the writing of Castle Dor.’. Cornish Studies. 21(1), pp.260-275.
K. Bunting (2019). ' Walter Besant, Collaboration and the Marketplace' in Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform. K. Morrison. In: Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform. University of Liverpool Press,
K. Bunting (2018). Victorian Popular Collaboration (encyclopaedia style entry). K. Morrison. In: Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Macfarland,
K. Bunting (2018). Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond. B. Leonardi. In: Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Springer International Publishing,
K. Bunting (2018). The New Woman in Her Confinement: Fin-de-siècle Constructions of Maternity and Motherhood. In: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Springer International Publishing, pp.67-89.
K. Bunting Mary Cholmondeley’s Red Pottage and the 1890s. A. Gavin, C. Oulton. In: 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.
K. Bunting (2018). ' Walter Besant, Collaboration and the Marketplace'. In: Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform. University of Liverpool Press,
K. Bunting (2015). Dreams of Futurity in ‘Votes for Men’ and ‘ e Dark Cottage’ –. In: Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered. Routledge, pp.175-186.
K. Bunting (2010). “Mary Cholmondeley’s Dreams of Futurity in Votes for Men (1909) and ‘The Dark Cottage’ (1919)”. C. Oulton, S. Schatz. In: Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered. London: Pickering & Chatto Limited, pp.161-172.
K. Bunting, R. Williams (2008). Literary and Cultural Contexts. A. Warwick, M. Willis. In: The Victorian Literature Handbook. London: Continuum Intl Pub Group, pp.44-88.
Select conference papers
'"Determined to live like human beings”: Ada Nield Chew’s journey from Factory Girl to Author-Activist' at From Brontë to Bloomsbury Third International Conference: Reassessing Women’s Writing of the 1880s and 1890s, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury (25-26 July 2016).
“KETSO for HE classroom use: Pros, Cons and Considerations” Centre for Excellence
in Learning and Teaching (MMU CELT) Annual Festival of Learning and Teaching, (Summer 2016).
“Vernon Lee’s Roman Experiments and the search for aesthetic sociability”
The North West Long Nineteenth Century Society (2 July 2015)
'"Bare-faced intrusion upon the silence of the grave": Daphne du Maurier's Posthumous Completion of Q's Castle Dor'. Adaptation and the Novel Conference, Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University (9th November 2013)
"Collaborative Bodies: The Affair at the Inn and the Mystery of the Minerva Literary Society" Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) annual conference on 'Bodies and Victorian Popular Culture'. Institute of English Studies (10-11 July 2013)
"Many hands make light work: authors and audiences of round robin novels (1892-1904)" Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Society (MIVSS) on 'Books, Authors, Audiences' University of Birmingham (5 July 2013)
"Collecting collaborations: on the process of composing a directory of co-authored writing, 1850-1910". British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) Annual Conference on 'Composition and Decomposition'. The University of Birmingham (1–3 September 2011)
"Reading Collaboration in the long Nineteenth Century" The North West Long-Nineteenth Century Seminars. University of Salford (6 April 2011)
"Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier, Wilkie Collins and the Selling of Posthumous Literary Collaboration". Association for Research in Popular Fictions (ARPF) International Conference on 'Popular Fictions: Selling Culture?' Liverpool John Moores University (20 -21 November 2010)
"'Plenty of Love and Plenty of Comic Irish Business: The Somerville and Ross Brand"" Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle Conference. Institute of English Studies, University of London (28 - 29 June 2010)
"Vernon Lee and the Search for Collaborative 'Aesthetic Sociability'" British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) Annual Conference on "Victorian Feeling: Touch, Bodies, Emotions" University of Leicester (1-3 Sept 2008)
"Devoted Amateur? Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage". '"Suitable for the Boudoir and the Circulating Library": Marie Corelli and Popular Women Novelists 1880-1910' Conference. University of Birmingham, Liverpool John Moores University and the ARPF. Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon (30 Mar-1 Apr 2006)
"Vernon Lee and Kit Anstruther-Thomson: Collaboration in Crisis". Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA) Annual Conference on 'Victorian Collaborations'. American University, Washington D.C. (15-17 Apr 2005)
"Alice Meynell and the Poetry of Posterity". The University of Birmingham Postgraduate Humanities Conference on 'Blurring the Boundaries'. The Birmingham and Midlands Institute (2005)
2017 Victorian Popular Fiction Association Study Day on 'Victorian Popular Literary
Collaboration' 22 April 2017 MMU Cheshire Campus http://victorianpopularfiction.org/study-day-victorian-popular-collaborations/
2016 Organiser of ‘The Women and Girls of Crewe, the North of England and Beyond, 1830 to 2016’
One day conference to be held at Manchester Metropolitan University, Cheshire, 7 December 2016
Funded by CTC and MMU http://www.localyouthengagement.org/uncategorized/call-for-papers/
2014 Organiser of the 2014 Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) annual international conference on 'Victorian Treasures and Trash'. Institute of English, Senate House, University of London, 8-10th July 2014). http://victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa/
Committee and Founding Member of the Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Society (MIVSS) Postgraduate Conference, coordinating this annual conference, based at the University of Birmingham, for four years:
Victorian Other Worlds (2007)
Victorian Binaries: Beauty & Ugliness (2006)
Victorian Binaries: Births & Deaths (2005)
Victorian Binaries: Faiths & Doubts (2004)
Reviewer and Editorial board for a series of critical monographs on Key Popular Women Writers published by
Edward Everett Root Publishers (run by John Spiers, former head of Harvester
Wheatsheaf). Also with EER, I am on the editorial board for a series of essay collections under the title ‘New Paths in Victorian Fiction and Culture’. While some of these will be developed from our regular VPFA study days including my own Study Day (organised with Dr Janine Hatter) on 'Victorian Collaboration' April 2017 (the first will be a collection on Victorian Fashion and Material Culture)
Crewe Town Council Community Fund.
(November 2015) Co-bidder
Supporting our Conference on ‘The women and girls of Crewe, the North of England and Beyond, 1830-2016’ (7 December 2016, Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire)
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and UnLtd Social Enterprise funding.
(October 2014) Lead bidder
Supported the launch of ‘The Local Youth Engagement Project’ Schools Workshops and Community Engagement Events. http://www.localyouthengagement.org/
British Association for Victorian Studies Conference Grant (Awarded July 2014) Lead bidder. Supported the funding of 10 postgraduate students’ attendance at the 2014 VPFA conference.
Early Careers Research Scholarship
Awarded by Centre for Research in English (CoRE), now HSSR, at Manchester Metropolitan University. Summer, 2011
The Coral Lansbury Award of the Northeast Victorian Studies Society (NVSA)
This award enabled me to travel to the USA to present my research at their 2005 annual international conference on ‘Victorian Collaborations’ in Washington D.C. I'm still proud of this as it was my very first experience of conferencing.
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
Faculty coordinator and compere of the 'Cheshire Open Lecture Series' 2013-2014 (year-long lecture series featuring key figures from disciplines relevant to the five departments that make up Cheshire Faculty). http://www.cheshire.mmu.ac.uk/lectureseries/
Follow @Lye_Crewe to see where our travelling 'Ada Nield Chew: Crewe Factory Girl' exhibition is currently.
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%99s-forgotten-suffragist
MMU Student Union Awards: "Best Supervisor 2014" (13 May 2014)
Early Careers Research Scholarship (10 weeks summer 2011)
Awarded by Centre for Research in English (CoRE), now IHSSR, at Manchester Metropolitan University (£5000)
The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) Postdoctoral Conference Bursary September 2008 (£100)
The Coral Lansbury Award of the Northeast Victorian Studies Society (NVSA) which enabled me to present my research at their 2005 annual international conference on 'Victorian Collaborations' in Washington D.C. (£300)