Networks of Reception in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers and Magazines
From October 2022 to September 2024 I held a Polonez Biz MSCA Fellowship as Principal Investigator on Networks of Reception in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers and Magazines: Laurence Sterne (NCN project number 2021/43/P/HS2/01182). Based at Kazimierz Wielki University (Bydgoszcz, Poland) and working in close collaboration with institutional host Professor Jakub Lipski, the main output of this project will be a short monograph currently under contract with Cambridge University Press.
This project is co-funded by the European Commission and the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND grant. Our bid for this competitive research grant was ranked first in its category.
More details are on the project website.
The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts
I was a Co-Investigator on ‘The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts’. This multidisciplinary project was funded by an Opus grant from the Polish government-funded National Science Centre (project number 2020/37/B/HS2/02093). It involved a collaboration between Kazimierz Wielki University (Bydgoszcz) and Poznań University.
This three-year project ran from January 2021 to January 2025. Project activities included journal articles, conferences, and an online exhibition of illustrations of Tobias Smollett’s work coinciding with the 300-year anniversary of his birth in 2021. The multi-author Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts volume, co-edited by Jakub Lipksi and Mary Newbould, was the project’s major output, published in 2024 by Edinburgh University Press.
Find out more on the project website.
Sterne Digital Library
I collaborated with Helen Williams (PI) as a Co-Investigator on ‘Sterne Digital Library‘, an AHRC-funded Digital Humanities project run collaboratively between Cambridge and Northumbria universities, Cambridge University Library, and the Laurence Sterne Trust from 2019-21.
The project’s major output is Laurence Sterne and Sterneana, an Open Access dataset of first editions of Laurence Sterne’s works, and key examples of Sterneana. I co-edited its multiple entries from an international array of contributions with Helen Williams. This Open Access resource is freely available to all users.
Mary Newbould 