Sarah Falcus — University of Huddersfield Research Portal

Personal profile

Biography

I joined the University of Huddersfield in 2008, having taught previously at a number of universities, including The Open University. I was awarded a PhD on the novels of Michèle Roberts from the University of Aberdeen in 2002. I also completed a PGCE in Further and Higher Education at the University of Wolverhampton in 2002. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I am the Co-Director for the Dementia and Cultural Narrative Network. I am the Primary Research Collaborator on the project 'Ageing and Illness in British and Japanese Children's Picturebooks 1950-2000: Historical and Cross-Cultural perspectives', funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (9880000 yen).

I am the External Examiner for the Humanities Programme at the University of Hertfordshire.

Research Expertise and Interests

Writing beyond the second wave: ageing into postfeminism and beyond
The ageing female body in literature and culture
Narrating dementia
Writing the third and fourth ages
Ageing across and between generations in literature

Research Degree Supervision

I am currently main supervisor for two PhD students. Their topics are affect, adaptation and filmic autobiography, and creative writing: fantasy and illness.

I am main supervisor for three MA by Research students. They are researching: gender and the gaze in action film; AI and contemporary film; and Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction.

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interdisciplinarity Social Sciences

feminism Social Sciences

dementia Social Sciences

Italy Social Sciences

Japan Social Sciences

travel Social Sciences

narrative Social Sciences

Novel Arts & Humanities

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Research Output 2002 2019

10 Article
8 Chapter
1 Book
1 Editorial

Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education: The Challenges of Adaptability

Falcus, S., Cameron, C. & Halsall, J., 1 Jan 2019, Mentorship, Leadership, and Research: Their Place within the Social Science Curriculum. Snowden, M. & Halsall, J. (eds.). Springer International Publishing AG, p. 129-146 17 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

interdisciplinarity

education

Teaching

university

graduate

Approaches to Old Age: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century

Oró-Piqueras, M. & Falcus, S., 22 Feb 2018, In : European Journal of English Studies. 22, 1, 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

The uneasy partnership of feminism and ageing in Carol Shields’s Unless

Falcus, S., 22 Dec 2017, In : Journal of Romance Studies. 17, 3, p. 311-326 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

feminism

gender

twenty-first century

proliferation

conversation

Wicked Weldon: The ‘F Word’ and the Older Woman

Falcus, S., 2016, Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Casado-Gual, N., Dominguez-Rue, E. & Worsfold, B. J. (eds.). Peter Lang Publishing Group, p. 273-294 22 p. (Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture; vol. 15).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Alternative futures: Ageing and Identity in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Falcus, S., 2015, Conditioned Identities: Wished-for and Unwished-for Identities. Sabate, F. (ed.). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang Publishing Group, p. 303-322 20 p. (Identities; vol. 4).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter