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Sarah Barnsley

Sarah Barnsley is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, with research interests in American literature, Mary Barnard, modernism (particularly late modernisms), poetry and poetics, creative writing and, most recently, applications of neuroscience within creative/critical practices.

She is a practising poet, and her new collection, The Thoughts, came out in January 2022.

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Sarah Barnsley on the 2019-20 BAAS Founders’ Research Travel Award

By | Published May 17, 2022

Research

I’ve been a BAAS member for a long time now, but hadn’t thought about applying for an award before, thinking I was probably too long past PhD completion to be eligible for one (I got my PhD in 2006). I experienced a debilitating illness over 2018/19 and while I’d rather not have, obviously, one upshot was the treatment was so effective that when I recovered I had a new sense of vigour I’d not experienced before. So when one of the BAAS newsletters landed in my inbox, and mentioned the Founders’ Research Travel Award, I thought Why not at least look into it? I had a research visit I needed to make and was pleasantly surprised to see that the award was open to any researcher, regardless of career stage. So then I thought: why not at least apply? These particular awards provide financial assistance to scholars in the UK […]