Clare Brant - Curriculum Vitae#

• Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, King’s College London
  
• Co-Director, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College London
  
• Editor, European Journal of Life Writing (2010-); also Creative Matters editor
  
• General Editor, Palgrave series, Studies in Life Writing (with Prof. Max Saunders): 19 titles to date, eleven of which have a European focus
  
• Director (and inventor of) Strandlines: Lives on the Strand past, present and creative, http://www.strandlines.london. Nominated for Impact study for REF 2014, drawing on community and public engagement
  
• Organiser of DEAR DIARY: A Celebration of Diaries and their Digital Descendants. Exhibition at the Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing, central London, 26 May – 7 July 2017. Co-curated with Dr Polly North of The Great Diary Project. Part of Ego Media’s output through its inclusion of path-breaking digital diary practices. Nominated for Impact study for REF 2020, drawing especially on positive publicity and public response wall
  
• Author of numerous scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals, participating in three main fields: eighteenth-century studies, life writing and blue humanities
  
• Poet with 4 published collections; various commissions and selected poems translated into Italian, Dutch and Polish.
  
• Member of board for SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, University of Turku, Finland (2017-)
  
• Grant reviewer for Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Stockholm (2021)
  
• Contributor to every IABA Europe conference since its inception: Amsterdam 2009; Tallinn 2011; Vienna 2013; Madeira 2015; KCL 2017 (host & co-organiser); Madrid 2019
  
• Co-organiser and contributor, conference, University of Paris, 2022, ‘Hybridity: Image and Text’ (a research network collaborating with Prof. Arnaud Schmitt, University of Bordeaux, 2021)
  
• Visiting Professor, Ulster Literary Biography Centre, Ulster University 2021
  
• Participant/presenter of paper in research network and workshop, ‘Underneath the Surface: A History of Diving’, Technical University, Braunschweig, Germany, 2022 (deferred from 2020)
  
• Participant/presenter of paper in research network and conference, ‘Eco Criticism and Narrative Form’, Organized by Oikos, GCSC Giessen in cooperation with the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE), University of Augsburg, 2019
  
• Member of Ocean Space research community https://community.ocean-archive.org, a transdisciplinary research network of ocean scholars based in Venice
  
• Invited poet, POLYCHROMIA Festival, Siena Art Institute, 2018
  
• Participant, contributor and launch speaker, ‘Life Writing and Space’, KCL-Humboldt University research network, Berlin 2016
  
• Keynote speaker, conference, ‘Portrait and portraying’, University of Wroclaw, Poland 2016
  
• Keynote speaker, conference, ‘The city and the senses’, University of Salzburg, 2015
  
• Participant/presenter of paper in conference ‘The Many Faces of Biography’, University of Vienna 2014
  
• Keynote speaker, conference, ‘Samuel Johnson at 300’, University of Copenhagen, 2014
  
• Co-organiser, symposium, ‘Life Writing from Below in Europe: Comparative Perspectives’ featuring scholars from Estonia, Finland, France and Switzerland, King’s College London 2014
  
• Participant/presenter of paper in conference, ‘Presence and Evidence of Unfamiliar Things in 18th-century Europe’, Annual Conference of the German Society for 18th-Century Studies (DGEJ), Wolfenbüttel, 2013
  
• Participant/presenter of paper ‘Philosophical Playthings?’, Ludic Self-Fashioning symposium, Freie Universitat Berlin, 2012