Key details
Ann M Hale
PhD Researcher
Her research focuses on law and nineteenth-century periodicals. She was awarded the 2014 Rosemary VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers.
The prize-winning essay, "W.T. Stead and Participatory Reader Networks," appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Her article on invisible labour in the Strand Magazine and its digital iterations, co-authored with Shannon R. Smith, was published in the Winter 2016 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review.
Awards
2014 Rosemary VanArsdel Prize, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Vice Chancellor's Scholarship, University of Greenwich
Research / Scholarly interests
Thesis title: Of More Peculiar Importance: Invisible Contributors, the Law, and the Nineteenth-Century Press
Research interests:
digital humanities
law and the legal press
nineteenth-century fiction
nineteenth-century periodicals
media history
print culture
professional identity
Victorian studies
Recent publications
"You see, but you do not observe": Hidden Infrastructure and Labour of the Strand Magazine and its Twenty-First Century Digital Iterations" (co-authored with Shannon R. Smith). Victorian Periodicals Review 49.4 (Winter 2016): 664–93.
"Introduction: Moments of Challenge and Change" (co-authored with Shannon R. Smith). Victorian Periodicals Review 49.4 (Winter 2016): 539–45.
"W.T. Stead and Participatory Reader Networks." Victorian Periodicals Review 48.1 (Spring 2015): 15–41.
Presentations
"Hidden Women/Invisible Owners: Female Shareholders in George Newnes Limited and Weldons Limited." Women in Print Conference, Birmingham, 13–14 September 2018.
"Unprotected and Absurd: Women and the Nineteenth-Century Legal Profession in Punch." Women in Punch Conference, London, 2 November 2017.
"From 1891 to 1897: Mapping the Corporate Geographies of George Newnes Limited." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) 2017 Conference, Freiburg, Germany, 27–29 July 2017.
"George Newnes in the Courtroom." NAVSA/AVSA La Pietra Conference, Florence, Italy, 17–20 May 2017.
"Times Law Reporters and Reports: "[E]nlightening the public on the subject in a more readable form." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) 2016 Conference, Kansas City, MO, 9–10 September 2016.
"'A Lady Thoroughly Conversant': Women Lawyers and Legal Information for Women—'everybody's [legal] business.'" BAVS 2016, Cardiff University, Cardiff, 31 August–2 September 2016.
"'You see, but you do not observe': Mapping the Strand Magazine" (with Shannon R. Smith). Victorian Periodicals Through Glass, Athenaeum, London, 15 July 2016.
"'Let us glance at our…Gazetteer': Imaginative and Corporate Geographies of the Strand Magazine." Forgotten Geographies in the Fin de Siècle, 1880–1920, Birkbeck College, London, 8-9 July 2016.