Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research overview
My current work re-examines the figure of the artist as a young woman, through a case study of George Sand’s early negotiations of female artistic identity, creativity, and agency in her fiction.
Teaching activity
Teaching:
2021/2022 - FR1002; ID2007; Academic Skills Project
2022/2023 - FR1001; Academic Skills Project
Research interests
I am the St Leonard’s Postgraduate College Athena Swan (Gender Equality) Doctoral Intern. In this role, I engage with the PG community to increase awareness of gender equality issues, and to identify good practice and areas for improvement. The project supports the university’s Athena Swan Institutional self-assessment team in its preparation for submission for Athena Swan silver award in 2023.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Staging alternatives to the marriage plot: clashing narratives of female agency in George Sand's La Marquise (1832)
McTurk-Starkie, A., 15 Jan 2023, In: Modern Language Review. 118, 1, p. 40-61 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Book review of Mathew Rickard, Against the grain: the poetics of non-normative masculinity in decadent French literature
McTurk-Starkie, A., 22 Oct 2022, In: Irish Journal of French Studies. 22, p. 195-197 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Le portrait de l’artiste peint par elle-même: negotiations of the artist-muse binary in George Sand’s Elle et lui (1859)
McTurk-Starkie, A., 3 Nov 2022, In: Women in French Studies. 30, p. 43-53 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Making Waves: French Feminisms and their Legacies 1975-2015 (Review)
McTurk, A., 18 Oct 2021, In: Modern & Contemporary France.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Activities
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Society for French Studies 63rd Annual Conference
McTurk-Starkie, A. (Participant)
27 Jun 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a conference
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Re-Writing Narratives of Female (Creative) Agency in George Sand’s La Marquise
McTurk-Starkie, A. (Speaker)
27 May 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Society of Dix-Neuviémistes 19th Annual Conference - Héritages et Contre-Cultures (St Andrews)
McTurk, A. (Participant)
2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a conference
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South Atlantic Modern Language Association's (SAMLA) 92nd Annual Conference
McTurk, A. (Participant)
2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a conference
Prizes
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2021 Women in French Graduate Student Essay Award
McTurk, A. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Other distinction
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Forum for Modern Language Studies Postgraduate Scholarship
McTurk, A. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Other distinction
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Thesis
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Re-telling the stories of artists who are women: lessons from the multimedial fictions of George Sand
McTurk, A. E. (Author), Orr, M. M. (Supervisor), 12 Jun 2024Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis (PhD)