Dr Lisa Gee is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the Ego-Media Project
Clare Brant is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature & Culture in the Department of English at King’s, and co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research. She is an editor on the European Journal of Life Writing, and the Project Director of Strandlines, a digital community project about lives on the Strand,
In March, we heard that the European Research Council granted the Ego Media Project a six-month extension so we can produce an innovative digital publication showcasing our work. Together with our colleagues at King’s Digital Lab, we’re working to create something that is, essentially, a new form of digital “book”.
Alisa’s research for the Ego-Media Project focuses on war writing on and off line. She started focusing on war blogs in Iraq and Afghanistan, but more broadly her work looks to historicize digital war writing by placing it in a continuum, and by considering the various tools that have emerged
The ECHIC conference Run in collaboration with The University of the Peloponnese, the range of papers at ECHIC 2019 (European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres) was invigorating. Discussions during and around the sessions were lively and diverse, with much evidence of collegiality and passion for collaboration. Talks ranged from
Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics, King’s College London. She has developed small stories research, a paradigm for studying identities in everyday life stories. Her latest study of small stories on social media has been carried out within the ERC project ‘Life-writing of the moment: The sharing