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Personal Statement
I studied English language and literature at Glasgow University and completed a PhD on seventeenth-century diaries at Leeds University in 1996. Then I worked as a fund manager for an Edinburgh firm for three years, before spending a year and a half at the Jagiellonian and Pedagogical Universities in Krakow, Poland. I came to Strathclyde in 2001.
Research Interests
I have completed two books on the history of reading in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In both I aim to reconnect the history of reading with the history of speech. I also research how cognitive science can help us to understand literary experience. To support this work I have completed an MSc in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition (2016, distinction).
Teaching Interests
I teach on the undergraduate BA degree in English literature. As well as core class teaching in first and second year, my upcoming and current options are 'Oral narratives and fairy tales', 'Theories of literature and wellbeing' and 'Literature, mind and brain'.
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A study of Jane Austen and 'play' in narrative technique
1/10/17 → 30/09/23
Project: Research - Studentship
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Picture this: a review of research relating to narrative processing by moving image versus language
Jajdelska, E., Anderson, M., Butler, C., Fabb, N., Finnigan, E., Garwood, I., Kelly, S., Kirk, W., Kukkonen, K., Mullally, S. & Schwan, S., 26 Jun 2019, In: Frontiers in Psychology . 10, 15 p., 1161.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The flow of narrative in the mind unmoored: an account of narrative processing
Jajdelska, E., 19 May 2019, In: Philosophical Psychology. 32, 4, p. 560-583 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)26 Downloads (Pure)
Activities
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'Who was Johnson's common reader?'
Elspeth Jajdelska (Invited speaker)
19 Dec 2014Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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St Andrews High School, Kirkcaldy
Elspeth Jajdelska (Visiting lecturer)
11 Dec 2014Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution