Regenia Gagnier#
Membership Number: | 3877 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2014 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - present Professor of English, University Exeter
- 1982 - 1996 Professor of English, Stanford University
Fields of Scholarship
- Interdisciplinary studies, especially with the sciences and engineering
- Gender and feminist studies
- Literary and social theory
- Geopolitics of Language and Literature Migration
- Victorian and Modern British Literature and Culture
- Digital humanities
Honours and Awards
- 1982 Fellow, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles
- 1985 Pew Memorial Trust for Research in Britain
- 1985 - 1986 Fellow Stanford Humanities Center
- 1986 Pew Memorial Trust
- 1989 Fellow St. Catherine’s College Oxford
- 1990 - 1991 Fellow Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers, New Jersey
- 1990 - 1991 Doris McNamara Scholar (Stanford)
- 1991 Guggenheim Fellow
- 1992 - 1995 Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Scholar in the Humanities (endowed term chair), Stanford
- 1993 - 1994 Office of Technology Licensing Research Incentive Fund Award (with John Dupre)
- 1996 Noted Visiting Scholar University of British Columbia, Canada
- 1998 British Council, Brandenburg Symposium
- 1999 AHRB Research Leave
- 2006 Honorary Centenary Fellow, English Association
- 2006 - present Senior Research Fellow, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis)
- 2009 Robert and Lillian Drake Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University
- 2009 British Academy Research Development Award for the Global Circulation Project £89,963
- 2010 Leverhulme Visiting Professorship (with Professor Laura Doyle, U Mass Amherst) £33,350
- 2010 - 2013 EPSRC Bridging the Gap: The Exeter Science Exchange: Trading Ideas to promote multidisciplinary collaboration. £612,095 (CoI; PI Prof. David Butler, Engineering)
- 2011 - present, Academic Advisor to Paul Druwe Fund, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium €850,000
- 2012 Macgeorge Fellowship, University of Melbourne
- 2012 Received by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Dickens’s Bicentenary for heritage and scholarship in literature and theatre
- 2012 Visiting Faculty, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, World Studies Interdisciplinary Project (WSIP)
- 2013 Vanderbilt/Exeter Programme in Literature, Genomics, Public Policy ($25,000 + £6000)
- 2013 Ian Fletcher Lecture, Arizona State University, Tempe
- 2014 Visiting Professor, University of Delhi
- 2014 Visiting Professor, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
- 2014 REACT/AHRC £29,891
- 2014 ERC Consolidator Grant PI Louise Bethlehem (Israel): Apartheid Stops: Kliptown & Bandung: Novel possibilities, 1948-1960; Sharpeville & Memphis: Drumming up resistance, 1960-1976; From Soweto to Berlin: Spectacle at the barricades, 1976-1990. Advisory Board Member and Consultant. Start date: 2014-05-01, End date: *2019-04-30. €1,861,238.
- 2014 Elected to Academia Europaea
- 2015 Guest of the Irish Embassy on the Bicentenary of Trollope
- 2015 NEH Level II Start-up: Advisory Board, Cohorts of Women in Biographical Collections. (PI: Prof. Alison Booth, U Virginia). March 2015-March 2017. $59,479
- 2016 Outward Mobility Grant for presentations to Fudan University, Shanghai, Dept. of Chinese and Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
- 2017 Co-hosting with the India Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India international conference ‘Purifying the Dialect of the Tribe’: Cross-Cultural Concerns in Colonial and Postcolonial India
- 2019 - 2022 Partner Investigator (PI) on Australian Research Council Grant “Heart Reasons: The Emotional Register of Liberal Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century.” Chief Investigators Professors William Christie, Professor and Director of the Humanities Research Centre (HRC), ANU; Jock Macleod, Griffith University; Peter Denney, Griffith University. $165,000
- 2019 “Gender Justice in Women’s Literature of the Ummah” Co-Investigator with Prof. Hasnul Djohar, Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta State Islamic University. International Collaborative Research funding body; Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA) of Republic of Indonesia: $ 17500
- 2020 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
- 2020 - 2021 Invited Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Research Centre, Canberra, Australia
- 2021 Visiting Scholarship, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa, for “The Geopolitics of Language and Literature Migration”
- MLA and British Academy travel awards and conference grants in 1993, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2015
- 2023 Elected Chair of British Academy section H6 Modern Languages, Literatures, and Other Media from 1830