Contact details
Head of Department
Email: K.M.Cockin@hull.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1482 465611
Office: Larkin building, Room 261 (L261)
Selected Publications
Books
- Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives (Cassell,
1998),
- Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: The Pioneer
Players 1911-25 (Palgrave, 2001).
Edited Books
- Ellen Terry: Spheres of Influence (London: Pickering
& Chatto, 2011).
Critical Editions
The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry: Volume Three (London:
Pickering and Chatto, 2012).
The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry: Volume
Two (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011).
- The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry: Volume
One (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010).
Anthologies
- Women's Suffrage Drama (funded by the AHRC) Volume III
in Women's Suffrage Literature in Routledge's ‘History of Feminism'
series (Routledge 2007).
- The Fiction of Gertrude Colmore II in Women's Suffrage
Literature in Routledge's ‘History of Feminism' series (Routledge
2007).
As Co-editor
- With Jago Morrison (eds), the Continuum Handbook on
Post-war British Literature.
As Editor of Special Issue of a Journal
Law and Literature (special issue on 'Silence') XXIV,
1, 2012.
Critical Survey (Special Issue on Contemporary Fiction)
XIX, 3, 2008
Critical Survey (Special Issue on Friends and Family
Figures) XVIII, 2006
Forthcoming as Editor
- The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry (five further
volumes) (Pickering and Chatto, forthcoming 2013-18)
- (ed.) Ellen Terry: Lives of Shakespearian Actors
(forthcoming Pickering & Chatto 2012)
Series Editor
Editor of "Dramatic Lives"
This series
will present biographies, monographs and edited collections of
scholarly essays about individuals who have worked in the theatre
either as a principal occupation or who have made a significant
contribution to the theatre. As well as studies of distinguished
figures of the theatre, the series will include works on artists,
writers, political activists and amateurs working on its fringes,
bringing a wealth of other experience from fields such as
literature, art, music, social reform and political activism.
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/series/dramatic_lives
Articles and chapters
- 'Queen Caroline’s Pains and Penalties: Silence and Speech in
the Dramatic Art of British Women’s Suffrage’ in Literature and
Law, special issue on Silence, 24,1, 2012, pp.
40-58.
- 'Ellen Terry: Preserving the Relics and Constructing the Brand'
in Ellen Terry: Spheres of Influence (London: Pickering
& Chatto, 2011).
- 'Introduction' in Ellen Terry: Spheres of Influence
(London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011).
- 'Introduction' in The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry:
Volume Two (London: Pickering and Chatto,
2011).
- ‘Ellen Terry and Henry Irving: A Working Relationship' in
Henry Irving: A Re-evaluation of the Pre-eminent Victorian
Actor-Manager (ed.) Richard Foulkes, London: Ashgate 2008, pp.
37-48.
- ‘Chicks and Lads: 'Chicks and Lads: Gender, Generation and
Literariness in Contemporary British Fiction', Anglistik und
Englischunterricht, (2007) pp. 107-24.
- ‘Cicely Hamilton's Warriors: Dramatic Reinventions of Militancy
in the British Women's Suffrage Movement', Women's History
Review, XIV, 3 (2005) pp. 531-45;
- ‘Inventing the Suffragettes: Anachronism, Gnosticism and
Corporeality in Contemporary Fiction', Critical Survey,
XVI, 3 (2004) pp. 17-32;
- ‘Ellen Terry and Women's Suffrage Agitation', in Gender and
Politics in the Age of Letter-Writing 1750-2000 (eds) Caroline
Bland and Maire Cross, London: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 201-12;
- ‘Rethinking Transracial Adoption: Reading Jackie Kay's The
Adoption Papers', a/b: Autobiography Studies, XVIII,
2 (Winter 2003), pp. 276-91.
- ‘Ellen Terry, The Ghostwriter and the Laughing Statue: The
Victorian Actress, Letters and Life-writing', Journal of
European Studies, XXXII (2002) pp. 151-63
- ‘Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Three Women": Work, Marriage and
the Old(er) Woman', in Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist
Reformer (eds) Gill Rudd and Val Gough, University of Iowa
Press, 2000, pp. 74-92;
- ‘Women's Suffrage Drama', in The Women's Suffrage
Movement: New Feminist Essays (eds) Maroula Joannou and June
Purvis, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998, pp.
127-39;
- 'The Pioneer Players: Plays of/with Identity,' in
Difference in View: Women in Modernism (ed.) Gabriele
Griffin. London: Taylor & Francis, 1994, pp. 142-54.
- 'New Light on Edith Craig,' Theatre Notebook, XLV, 3
(1991) pp. 132-43, as well as the first biography, Edith Craig
(1869-1947): Dramatic Lives (Cassell 1998).
Forthcoming Articles and chapters
‘'Introduction' in Ellen Terry: Lives of Shakespearian
Actors (forthcoming Pickering & Chatto 2012).
Contributions to Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
- New entries: Margaret Ethel Robertson; Kittie
Carson; Laurence Housman; Christopher St. John; Clare Atwood; Edith
Craig; Mary Murdoch
- Revised: William Abbott; James Anderson;
Thomas Archer; George Bennett; George Bentley; Gustavus Brooke;
Thomas Cobham; William Creswick; Edward Elton; Samuel Emery; John
Hartley; Francis Huntley; Walter Lacy; Talbot Montague; Frederick
Yates.
Conferences organised
- 7-8 May 2011: The Pioneers Players 1911-25
- Saturday October 2009: Writes and Wrongs: Documenting
Liberty.
- Saturday 6 June 2009: 'Ellen Terry and Edith Craig'; keynote
speakers Sir Michael Holroyd CBE and Professor Nina Auerbach;
supported by the Society for Theatre Research.
- Saturday 10 May 2008: 'Silence'; keynote speaker Dr
Maria Aristodemou, Birkbeck University of London.
- Saturday 12 May 2007: co-organising with Dr Catherine Wynne ‘In
Transit: Literature on the Move'
- Saturday 9 December 2006: Postgraduate Conference ‘Dealing with
Primary Sources' (Roberts Fund project to enhance the career
prospects and transferable skills training of research studentS and
postdoctoral researchers)
- Saturday 20 May 2006: ‘The Literary North'; keynote speaker
Professor Cora Kaplan, Queen Mary London University
Saturday 14 May 2005: ‘Near and Dear: Friends and Family Figures in
Contemporary Fiction'; keynote speakers Toby Litt and
Professor Sue Thomas, De Montfort University
Seminar Series organised
Spring 2007 Law and Literature: papers by Dr
Stephen Skinner (University of Aberystwyth); Dr Jago Morrison
(Brunel University); Dr Mary Ford (University of Strathclyde); Dr
Maria Aristodemou ( Birkbeck University of London).
- Spring 2006 Contemporary Fiction: papers by Dr
John McLeod, Paul McGarry, Dr Richard Brown, Sam Francis
(University of Leeds); Dr Mark Llewellyn (University of Liverpool);
Dr Catharine Spooner (University of Lancaster); Dr Catherine Wynne
(University of Hull); Professor Berthold Schoene (Manchester
Metropolitan University); Dr Lawrence Phillips (Liverpool Hope
University).
- Spring 2005 Contemporary Fiction: papers by
Professor Imelda Whelehan (De Montfort University); Professor
Berthold Schoene (Manchester Metropolitan University); Dr John
McLeod (University of Leeds); Dr Lawrence Phillips (Liverpool Hope
University College); Dr Margaretta Jolly (University of Exeter) and
Dr Gill Plain (St Andrews University).
Teaching
Undergraduate Programme convener
- BA English with Law (from 2009)
Undergraduate Modules (convener and teacher)
- 14375 Suffragettes and Citizens: Writing for the Vote (level
6)
- The First World War in Literature (level 5)
- Autobiography (level 6)
- Cyborgs, Clones and Other Animals: Science in Fiction (level
6)
- Between the Acts: Literature of the Thirties (level 6)
- Autobiography (level 6)
Contributions to: Law and Literature (level 5) convened by
the Law School
Postgraduate Programme (as convener)
- MA Modern and Contemporary Literature (from 2007)
Postgraduate Modules (as convener)
- Rights and Wrongs
- Literature and Law (team taught with staff from Law
School)
- Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Theatre in the Modern World
- The Literary North
Postgraduate Modules (seminars contributed to)
I welcome applications from Ph.D.
students in the following areas:
literature which engages with
political events and movements, including women's suffrage; modern
and contemporary literature; and women's writing from the
nineteenth century onwards.