Dr Louise Edensor SFHEA
- ROLE:Senior Lecturer, Campus Programme Coordinator
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Biography
Dr Louise Edensor SFHEA is Head of Foundation Programme and Pre-Sessional Programmes at Middlesex University, Dubai . She holds a PhD and MA in Literature, a BA Honours (First Class) in Humanities with Literature, and a BA Honours in Business Administration, along with an ILM Certificate in Supervisory Management. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Louise’s teaching interests include Creative Writing, Academic Advising and the supervision of Master’s degree Education dissertations. Her research interests include periodical culture of the modernist period, the Writings of Katherine Mansfield, Foundation studies and Academic Advising.
Qualifications
- PhD Literature, University of Northampton
- MA Literature, Open University
- BA (Hons) First Class Humanities with Literature, Open University
- BA (Hons) Business Administration, Staffordshire University
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education.
- ILM Certificate Supervisory Management
Awards and achievements
- Faculty Excellence Award for Transformative Learning, 2022
- Staff Excellence in Teaching Award, Middlesex University, 2012
Membership of professional bodies and associations
- Katherine Mansfield Society
- British Modernism Society
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Research Interests
- Periodical Culture of the modernist period
- Writings of Katherine Mansfield
- Children’s Literature
- Academic Advising
Selected Publications
- RMIT Conference Melbourne June 2010‘Katherine Mansfield and the Blooms Berries’: Paper: ‘Time for a Change: The influence of the writings of Henri Bergson and Arthur Symons on the short stories of Katherine Mansfield’
- Katherine Mansfield and Influence (2015) ‘Creative Evolution: Symbolist Representations of Bergson’s Duration in the works of Katherine Mansfield’
- MDX Conference 2011: Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Science: ‘Mixing with the Digital Natives: An Investigation of the Efficacy of Facebook as an Academic Tool’.
- Synecdochic Representations of Patriarchal ideology and of Nationality: Katherine Mansfield and the Germans, Katherine Mansfield Conference, Slovakia, June 2011
- MDX Conference 2013: Facebook in Higher Education: the yellow brick road or highway through the danger zone? Dubai, November 2013
- Un Profession de foi pour toujours: Katherine Mansfield and Beatrice Hastings in France, Katherine Mansfield Conference, Universite Paris III, Sorbonne, Paris, June 2014.
- Katherine Mansfield Annual Postgraduate Conference, 10th April 2017, University of Oxford, UK.
- Middlesex University Dubai Conference 2018: Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Science: Dubai, January 2018.
- Katherine Mansfield Annual Postgraduate Conference, 27th March 2018, University of Cambridge, UK.
- Foundation for Excellence: Increasing Access, Cultivating Success, 16th April 2018, Amity University, Dubai.
- Future States: Modernity and National Identity in Popular Magazines, 1890-1945, 23 March – 5 April 2020.
- Annual Learning and Teaching Conference September 2022: Towards Academic Advising for International Foundation Students: A case Study of Dubai, Middlesex University, London.
Book Chapters
- Edensor, L. 2020. Chapter 5: ‘Rhythm and the Short Story’, The Modern Short Story and the Magazines 1880-1950, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Edensor, L. 2016. ‘Chapter Two: Un profession de foi pour toujours: Katherine Mansfield and Beatrice Hastings in France’ in Kimber, G and Davison, C., Katherine Mansfield’s French Lives, Brill Ropodi, pp.23-39.
Journal Articles
- Edensor, L. 2018. ‘‘Before art can be human again, it must first learn to be Brutal’: Katherine Mansfield, the Self and Rhythm’. Tinakori: Critical Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society. ISBN 2397-9046.
- Edensor, L. 2016. ‘Me or I? The Search for the Self in the early writings of Katherine Mansfield’ in Katherine Mansfield Studies Vol 8 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
