Chiara Bullen

  • Research Interests

    - Book Culture

    - 21st-Century Literature

    - Corporate Social Responsibility

    - Authorship

    - Paratext

    - Book Publishing

  • CV

    Education

    University of Stirling, PhD Publishing Studies: 2019–2023

    Thesis Title: “Problematic Publishing and Progressive Symbolic Capital in the 21st Century.”

    University of Stirling, MLitt Publishing Studies: 2016–2017

    University of Glasgow, MA Hons English Literature & English Language: 2012–2016

     

    Teaching

    Associate Lecturer in Publishing Studies, Edinburgh Napier University (2023).

    Graduate Teaching Assistant in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2021-2024).

     

    Academic Service

    Transatlantic Literary Women Series Committee Member, University of Glasgow: 2018-Present

  • Current Project

    University of Münster Women in Research Postdoctoral Fellowship: February 2024 – September 2024. Project title: “Inclusivity, Sustainability, Solidarity: Corporate Social Responsibility and Paratext in 21st- Century Book Culture.” My postdoctoral research examines the ways in which Corporate Social Responsibility manifests in the UK publishing industry and impacts cultural production.

  • Publication

    “Your Bookshelf is Problematic: Progressive and Problematic Publishing in the Age of COVID-19” in Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic ed. Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Shafquat Towheed (London: Palgrave Macmillan, September 2022).