Sally Bushell, Reading and Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Text

Sophie Welsh is the recipient of a Collaborative Doctoral Award from the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC) in collaboration with Dorset Museum and Dorset History Centre. Her PhD project examines cultures of cartography in the works of the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, investigating the ways in which historic and contemporary forms of mapping informed the way Hardy wrote about and constructed his fictional landscapes. Sophie is a Postgraduate Representative for the Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Exeter and a Research & Editorial Assistant for COVE (the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education).