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Claire Wilkinson studied for her BA at Cambridge (New Hall / Murray Edwards, 2007-2010) and completed her MA at York (2010-2011). She returned to the Faculty of English in 2013 to begin her PhD as a Winton Doctoral Scholar in English Economics. Her thesis, titled 'Imaginary Economies: Literature and the Financial Crisis, 1720-1975', examines the representation of four epochs of financial crisis in literary writing, including the South Sea Bubble of 1720, the 'Railway Manias' of the 1840s, the first Barings Bank crisis of 1890, and the oil crises of the early 1970s, with her degree awarded in 2017. In January 2018, she held the position of Teaching Associate in Eighteenth-Century Literature at the Faculty of English. As a Fellow of Murray Edwards College and a Senior Member of Robinson College, she has a keen interest in issues related to access to further education and has run the Faculty's Sutton Trust Experience Cambridge programmes for the past seven years. This work is alongside a large project funded by the Cambridge Admissions Office aimed at introducing university-level English to students from non-selective state schools.
University of Cambridge • Cambridge, ENG, GB
Teaching and supervising students in the field of Eighteenth-Century literature.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.