Grace Halden signs first book deal

 

We are delighted to announce that Dr Grace Halden, recent graduate of the English and Humanities MPhil/PhD programme, has signed her first book deal to write Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Culture.

 

The book will be published by Routledge.

 

Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Culture builds on the research Grace conducted when working on the first two chapters of her PhD thesis at Birkbeck entitled ‘If This a Man’ Technological Development and Human Disappearance in US Sf since 1945.

Photograph: Helicopter over Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, 1979. President (1977-1981 : Carter). President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. (04/11/1979 - 12/31/1980)

Photograph: Helicopter over Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, 1979. President (1977-1981 : Carter). President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. (04/11/1979 – 12/31/1980)

 

Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Culture engages with the Three Mile Island nuclear incident of 1979 alongside the wider contextual framework of the nuclear debate in America during the twentieth century. Not only was the 1979 Three Mile Island event important for the history of nuclear development, it also exposed fundamental issues regarding how information is disseminated to the public.

 

Through exploring both sociohistorical and literary representations of Three Mile Island, Grace will examine how nuclear technology was both idealized and challenged before, during, and after this event – from the 1945 atomic strike on Japan to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

 

With special thanks to Professor Roger Luckhurst.

 

For more information on Grace’s work please visit: http://gracehalden.wix.com/gracehalden

 

 

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British Library Doctoral Students Open Days 2015

The British Library’s series of Open Days for new PhD students start this January.  Although your Doctoral Training Students may already have heard about the events (and hopefully booked!) we would be grateful if you could circulate this email, to ensure they don’t miss out.   You can see details all of the Open Days here.

The Open Days are designed to introduce new PhD students to the Library and students will learn about our collections, find out how to access them, and meet our expert staff as well as other researchers in their field. In addition to an understanding of the Library’s collections, the students gain a wider introduction to the information landscape in their field including research opportunities opening up in digital environment.  Each Open Day has a specific focus and students are encouraged to attend the event they feel is most relevant to their area of research.   The Music Day, for example may be relevant to anthropology students who could be interested in our pop and ethno musicological collections.   The Open Days are as follows:

English & Drama                                      – Monday 19 January

Digital Scholarship                                   – Friday 23 January

Music                                                        – Friday 30 January

Media, Cultural Studies and Journalism   – Friday 6 February

Art & Design                                             – Friday 6 February

History 1                                                   – Monday 16 February

History 2 (repeat of 1)                               –Friday 20 February

Asian & African Studies                            – Friday 27 February

Full details of all the Open Days, including how to book, are available on our website. Places cost £5.00 and this includes lunch.   Some of the events are fully booked or approaching capacity – if so students can register to go on a reserve list & will then be contacted directly when a place becomes available.

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