{"id":4088,"date":"2021-09-06T08:50:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T07:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chi.ac.uk\/?page_id=4088"},"modified":"2023-09-22T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:33:50","slug":"the-iris-murdoch-research-centre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chi.ac.uk\/research\/centres\/the-iris-murdoch-research-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iris Murdoch Research Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\tThe Iris Murdoch Research Centre\n\t<\/h1>\n\t
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The Iris Murdoch Research Centre supports and develops work into this major twentieth century writer. Staff disseminate expertise on Murdoch’s work via published work, major conferences, and more widely via the media. The Centre is the hub for international research, edits and publishes the Iris Murdoch Review journal and other publications, and convenes the Iris Murdoch Society.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tOur Research\n\t<\/h2>\n

The Centre’s primary role is to support and develop research, from undergraduate work to world-leading publications.<\/p>\n

We fully support the 老司机视频’s core vision for all research to be filtered into teaching and we see students as co-workers in this venture; Murdoch’s fictional work is taught throughout the undergraduate and postgraduate programme in English.<\/p>\n

The research events, seminars, and conferences the centre organises, both at Chichester and beyond, are open to all and our aim is to involve as many people as possible, including the general public, in our work. More details of these can be found on our ‘Events’ page.<\/p>\n

The Centre is the home of the ‘Iris Murdoch Today’ Series with Palgrave MacMillan, producing two books a year. Miles Leeson and Frances White are the Series Co-Editors. The team also produces the annual\u00a0Iris Murdoch Review<\/i>\u00a0as well as leading the International Iris Murdoch Society and associated activities.<\/p>\n

We have a thriving postgraduate cohort – details can be\u00a0found on the ‘People’ page<\/a>\u00a0– and we always welcome applications to study.<\/p>\n

After initial informal contact you will need to\u00a0complete the 老司机视频’s application form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in MPhil or PhD study please contact the Centre Director, Miles Leeson (m.leeson@chi.ac.uk<\/a>), in the first instance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tOur Members\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\tMiles Leeson – Centre Director<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Dr Miles Leeson is the Director of the IMRC and Visiting Research Fellow at Kingston 老司机视频. He is the lead editor of the Iris Murdoch Review<\/em>, co-editor of the ‘Iris Murdoch Today’ Series with Palgrave Macmillan and has written widely on Murdoch’s work. He published Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist<\/em> in 2010 and the edited collections Incest in Contemporary Literature (<\/em>2018), Iris Murdoch: A Centenary Celebration<\/em> (2019), and Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination <\/em>(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). All enquiries for study-related matters should be directed to him in the first instance. Email: M.Leeson@chi.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFrances White – Deputy Director<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Dr Frances White is Visiting Research Fellow at the 老司机视频, Deputy Director of the IMRC, editor of the Iris Murdoch Review<\/em>, co-editor of the ‘Iris Murdoch Today’ Series with Palgrave Macmillan, and Writer in Residence at Kingston 老司机视频 Writing School. She has published widely on Iris Murdoch; her Becoming Iris Murdoch<\/em> (2014) won the Kingston 老司机视频 Press Short Biography Competition. Email: Frances.White@chi.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAnne Rowe – Visiting Professor<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Anne Rowe is Visiting Professor at the 老司机视频 and Emeritus Research Fellow with the Iris Murdoch Archive Project at Kingston 老司机视频. Her publications include The Visual Arts and the Novels of Iris Murdoch<\/em> (2002); Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life<\/em> (2010) with Priscilla Martin, and Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995<\/em> (2015), co-edited with Avril Horner and Iris Murdoch (2019) in the Writers and their Work series from Liverpool 老司机视频 Press. Email: A.Rowe@kingston.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHannah Altorf – Visiting Fellow<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Dr Hannah Marije Altorf is Visiting Fellow at the IMRC and was formerly Reader in Philosophy at St Mary’s 老司机视频, London. She has written on the philosophical and literary works of Iris Murdoch and on different forms of philosophical dialogue. She is the author of Iris Murdoch and the Art of Imagining <\/em>(2008), the co-translator of The Sovereignty of Good <\/em>into Dutch, and is currently working on a monograph entitled Thinking in Public: In Dialogue with Iris Murdoch, Hannah Arendt and others<\/em>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tLucy Oulton – Research Associate<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

\u200bLucy Oulton has worked in the media, education and charitable sectors. She volunteers in the Iris Murdoch Archive where she is transcribing some of Murdoch’s journals. She holds a BA in German Literature and Contemporary Studies from Oxford Brookes 老司机视频 and an MA in English Literature from Kingston 老司机视频. Her interests include affect theory and ecocriticism and she is now undertaking research into landscape, place and space in the novels of Iris Murdoch. Email Loulton1@stu.chi.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRebecca Moden – Research Associate<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Dr Rebecca Moden holds a BA in Literature from the Open 老司机视频 and an MPhil in Literature and Modernity from the 老司机视频 of Birmingham. She completed her PhD at the 老司机视频, titled ‘Writer Meets Painter: A Study of Aesthetic Affinities in the works of Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger’ and is currently working on her first monograph. She combines her research with English teaching in Birmingham. Email rebecca.moden@tiscali.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMaria Peacock – PhD Student<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Maria Peacock has a BA in Humanities and an MA in English, both from the Open 老司机视频. She was a teacher, and then worked for HMRC for 37 years as a tax inspector. She is now a volunteer advisor for Citizens Advice in Oxford. She is interested in the New Historicist approach to literature, and the uses of genre in fiction. Her PhD research focuses on rootlessness and displacement in the fiction of Iris Murdoch. Email: rpeacoc1@stu.chi.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tLewis Brewster – PhD Student<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Information will be here soon.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tThe Iris Murdoch Society\n\t<\/h2>\n

The Iris Murdoch Society was inaugurated in New York in 1986. Barbara Stevens Heusel, then a faculty member at Wake Forest 老司机视频 in North Carolina, organised and chaired the inaugural meeting, on December 29, 1986 in New York City, as a special session at the Modern Language Association’s annual conference. It was based at Kingston 老司机视频 until 2016 when it came to the 老司机视频, and is now run by the Research Centre. It has members across the world: academics, general readers and enthusiasts, and those personally connected to Iris Murdoch. It exists to promote her work, further her philosophical vision, and enhance and extend knowledge. There is an active online community connected to the society on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Society originally produced the Iris Murdoch News Letter (up until 2007) and now publishes the peer-reviewed journal Iris Murdoch Review<\/em>, offering a forum for articles, reviews and notices, and which keeps members of the society informed of new publications, symposia and other news that has a bearing on the life and work of Iris Murdoch and her milieu.<\/p>\n

Join the Iris Murdoch Society to:<\/p>\n