Contact details
- Name:
- Dr Elizabeth Dearnley
- Qualifications:
- PhD at the University of Cambridge (2011)
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Research Fellow
- Fellowship term:
- 01-Apr-2019 to 01-Mar-2022
- Institute:
- Institute of English Studies
- Email address:
- elizabeth.dearnley@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://ies.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-elizabeth-dearnley
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- History of art
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
-
Elizabeth Dearnley is a folklorist and artist working on engagement with public spaces.
After completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge (2011), she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at UCL (2012-15) exploring fairy tale evolution and collaborative storytelling. Since then, she has taught at UCL and Cambridge, produced arts and public engagement projects from Talking Statues(Opens in new window) to Journeys Through Print(Opens in new window), and toured immersive theatre installation Big Teeth(Opens in new window).
Her first book, Translators and their Prologues in Medieval England, was published in 2016, and she is now writing her second book on how folktales shape attitudes about public space. At the Institute of English Studies, she is exploring women’s mapping of cities through diaries and life writing, based on her 2018 project The Flâneuse Diaries.