Dr Melanie Bigold

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BA Hons (Manitoba), MA (Toronto), DPhil (Oxford)

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I am currently working on a joint biography of George Ballard and Elizabeth Elstob, as well as leading a project on marginalia and provenance in the Cardiff Rare Books collection. Updates on cataloguing as well as blog posts on projects related to the rare books can be found on the Cardiff Book History and Special Collections and Archives blogs

I also co-founded and co-convene the interdisciplinary Families, Identities, and Gender Research Network (FIG).

Research interests

I would welcome enquiries from potential graduates who would like to pursue research in the areas of 

• history of the book; 
• manuscript culture; 
• women's writing and women's literary history; 
• philosophy, religion and literature in the long eighteenth century; 
• life-writing.

Addysgu

Yng Nghaerdydd rwy'n addysgu ar fodiwlau ar draws y cwricwlwm, gan gynnwys llenyddiaeth yr ail ganrif ar bymtheg a'r ddeunawfed ganrif, drama, a hanes llyfrau. Rwy'n ceisio cyflwyno myfyrwyr i feysydd ymchwil a deunydd nad ydynt wedi bod yn agored iddynt o'r blaen, er mwyn ysbrydoli creadigrwydd a meddwl beirniadol. Dros y blynyddoedd, cefais fy enwebu sawl gwaith yn 'Gwobrau Cyfoethogi Bywyd Myfyrwyr', ac yn ddiweddar mae'r brifysgol wedi fy nghynnwys yn eu hymgyrchoedd marchnata am 'Ragoriaeth Addysgu'.

Fel rhan o'm haddysgu dan arweiniad ymchwil, datblygais nifer o fentrau Rhaglen Cyfleoedd Ymchwil Israddedigion Caerdydd (CUROP) mewn Casgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau. Roedd y gwobrau hyn yn galluogi israddedigion Caerdydd i gael lleoliadau â thâl ar fy mhrosiectau ymchwil academaidd dros fisoedd yr haf. Maent yn gyfle gwych i israddedigion ennill profiad o brosiectau ymchwil mwy, ac i gael cipolwg amhrisiadwy ar brosesau ac ymarferoldeb ymchwil bob dydd, yn ogystal â lledaenu canlyniadau ymchwil. Dyma ychydig o erthyglau blog gan rai o'r myfyrwyr a wnaeth y gwaith hwn:

https://cardiffbookhistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/curop-2/

https://cardiffbookhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/bigold-curop/

https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2018/10/19/exploring-womens-libraries/

Rwyf eisoes wedi dal swyddi darlithio yn genedlaethol ac yn rhyngwladol: yng Ngholegau Iesu a St. Anne yn Rhydychen, ac ym Mhrifysgol Toronto. Rwyf hefyd wedi cymryd rhan mewn cyfnewid addysgu Erasmus ym Mhrifysgol Oslo a Phrifysgol Stuttgart.

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I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Oxford in July 2007. 

During 2007-08, I was awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship based at the University of Toronto, and was also a Plumer Visiting Fellow at St. Anne's College (Oxford). 

I joined Cardiff University in Autumn 2008.

Aelodaethau proffesiynol

• Cymrawd y Gymdeithas Hanesyddol Frenhinol (FRHists)
• Cymrawd Addysg Uwch Uwch, sy'n cynrychioli Safonau Proffesiynol mewn Addysgu a Chymorth (FHEA) 

Meysydd goruchwyliaeth

I welcome enquiries from potential graduates who would like to pursue research in the following areas: 

• history of the book;
• reading and reception studies;
• manuscript culture (including marginalia and epistolary studies);
• women's writing and women's  literary history;
• philosophy, religion and literature in the long eighteenth century;
• life-writing:
• dramatic literature, dance, and performance studies;

My primary expertise are in the period 1600-1800, but I also welcome enquiries from students with an interest in all periods of drama, dance, and historical performance studies.