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Researcher
Emma-Louise Silva
- Research Expertise:Emma-Louise Silva is a senior postdoctoral fellow working on her FWO-funded project "The Paper Traces of Reimagined Memories in Children’s Literature" at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. This project delves into the writing materials of authors such as Roald Dahl, Jamila Gavin, David Almond, and Jacqueline Woodson to garner insights into life writing and negotiations of memory and imagination. Her research on cognitive narratology, genetic criticism, philosophy of mind, and age studies has been published in the European Journal of Life Writing, in Age, Culture, Humanities, and in the co-authored monograph, Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre: A Multi-Method Approach to Studying Age and the Life Course in Children’s Literature. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher aboard the ERC-funded project "Constructing Age for Young Readers", led by Vanessa Joosen, and she combined this role with a lecturing position at the University of Antwerp, teaching the "Joyce Seminar" and assisting with the BA courses "Introduction to the Study of Literature in English", "Nineteenth-century Literature in English", and "Twentieth-century Literature in English", and with the MA courses "Writers at Work" and "Constructing Age in Modern Literature". As a member of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, Emma-Louise defended her PhD on James Joyce and cognition in 2019. Her PhD was part of the Top Bof project "Literature and the Extended Mind: A Reassessment of Modernism", led by Dirk Van Hulle. She has published articles on an array of Joyce-related topics, she has co-edited two journal volumes on Joyce and modernism, and her monograph, Modernist Minds: Materialities of the Mental in the Works of James Joyce has recently been published by Brill. Emma-Louise is co-organiser of the "Children’s Literature Summer School" at the University of Antwerp and she is a member of the editorial board for Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. She has also worked as a digital editor for Peter Petré’s ERC-project "Mind-Bending Grammars" and as a postdoctoral coordinator of the "Pillar 1 Science and Technology Roadmap" under the supervision of Mike Kestemont for Time Machine Europe.
- Keywords:JAMES JOYCE, GENETIC CRITICISM, COGNITIVE NARRATOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OF MIND, Language and literature (incl. information, documentation, library and archive sciences)
- Disciplines:Literary studies, Theory and methodology of literary studies
- Research techniques:Text Encoding (TEI)
- Users of research expertise:Scholars and students of literature