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Beth Pyner

Beth Pyner

Research student,

Email
pynerbrc@cardiff.ac.uk

Overview

After completing my BA in Hispanic Studies with European Studies (2008-2012) at Queen Mary, University of London, and my MA in Comparative Literature at King's College London (2013-2014), I spent several years working in the charity and arts education sectors as a Project Coordinator, particularly within outreach positions and higher education widening participation initiatives. My PhD, which I commenced in 2019, is funded by the AHRC via the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership. I am jointly supervised by Dr Alix Beeston (Cardiff University) and Dr Debra Ramsay (University of Exeter).

I was one of 15 delegates on the 2022 TV PhD talent scheme run by Edinburgh TV Festival and the TV Foundation in collaboration with the AHRC. As part of the scheme, I was chosen as one of six participants to pitch an idea for a TV documentary based on our PhD research lat the Edinburgh TV Festival. My pitch won the session and I am considering developing it into a TV documentary.

From 2020-2022 I co-chaired "Intersec+ions," a student-led research network exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and other markers of difference in culture and society.

Forthcoming publications:

  • Forthcoming, Autumn 2023: "Don't Let's Look at the Nanny: Tracing the Photographic Occlusion of the Black Nanny in Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

Research

Research interests

My main research focus is intermediality within women's contemporary accounts of war.

Additional research interests include:

  • Gender and feminist studies
  • Visual culture studies including photography, film, and illustration.
  • Critical race theory
  • Intermediality (particularly within literature, photography and film)
  • Women's life writing

Thesis

Encountering the Other: Intermediality in Women’s Contemporary Accounts of Conflict

My research examines the potentialities and affordances of intermediality in women's contemporary accounts of war, particularly as they connect to issues of gender and race, and the representation of the self and the other. By exploring the inextricability of form and function in women’s conflict narratives, my research seeks to uncover subordinate experiences of war that are overlooked by the traditional, masculinist war archive.

Funding source

AHRC

Supervisors

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Dr Alix Beeston

Senior Lecturer

Publications

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