Dr Rose Harris-Birtill — Birkbeck, University of London

Overview

Highlights

Dr Rose Harris Birtill is the Editorial Director at the Open Library of Humanities, an open access scholarly publisher based at Birkbeck, University of London. Rose holds a PhD in English from the University of St Andrews, where she is also an Honorary Lecturer.
She is the editor of the C21 Literature journal special collection on David Mitchell, author of David Mitchell's Post-Secular World: Buddhism, Belief and the Urgency of Compassion (2019), and Secretary for the British Association of Contemporary Literature Studies.
Rose is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), an accredited Masters-level professional teaching qualification awarded at the University of St Andrews, aligning with the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF). She also holds the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) New Scholar Prize, the Frank Muir Prize for Writing, and a McCall MacBain Teaching Excellence Award. Rose is also the Secretary for the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies, and is the current UK National Expert for the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS).

Qualifications

PhD in English, University of St Andrews, 2017
MA (Dist.) in English Literature, University of Warwick, 2008
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), Higher Education Academy, 2016
Publishing and Editing Open Studies Certificate, University of Warwick, 2008
1st Class BA (Hons) in English and Creative Writing, University of Warwick, 2007

Web profiles

Dr Rose Harris-Birtill's Research Profile, University of St Andrews

Administrative responsibilities

Director of Editorial at the Open Library of Humanities

Honours and awards

Honorary Lecturer, University of St Andrews,
McCall MacBain Teaching Excellence Award, University of St Andrews, August 2018
International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) New Scholar Prize, International Society for the Study of Time, August 2016
Frank Muir Prize for Writing, University of St Andrews, August 2015

ORCID

0000-0002-5590-4408

Research

Research interests

Rose’s research interests include contemporary and twentieth-century literatures, time, globalisation, experimental and visual narratives, digital storytelling, Tibetan Buddhism and diaspora, world literature, global feminisms, literature in performance, speculative and science fiction, and critical and cultural theory.

Research overview

Books

David Mitchell’s Post-Secular World: Buddhism, Belief and the Urgency of Compassion. Published worldwide by Bloomsbury Academic in January 2019 (125,000 words). Academic monograph on David Mitchell’s complete works, including his novels, short stories and operas, analysing the post-secular Buddhist influences that draw his fictions into a self-contained ethical world. Accepted in December 2017 for publication by Bloomsbury senior publisher David Avital and series editors Prof. Bryan Cheyette and Prof. Martin Paul Eve for Bloomsbury Academic’s New Horizons in Contemporary Writing series.

Reader 1: ‘Absolutely commanding, relentlessly thorough, meticulously researched. This is a landmark—a truly remarkable achievement sure to be praised and appreciated by Mitchell readers and scholars of contemporary literature alike.’ Reader 2: ‘A major scholarly undertaking. It convinced me that there is nobody in the world – save perhaps the author himself – who knows as much about the collected and uncollected fiction of David Mitchell. It is hard not to see this becoming a central reference point within a field that is rapidly growing. All in all, this is a well-written and amazingly well-researched book.’

Reviews include: C21 Literature 7(1): 1-4; KronoScope 19(1): 62-65; Culture Mandala 13(2): 32-33.

Journal special editions

Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ). As the Editor-in-Chief at OLHJ, I am responsible for all aspects of the editorial publishing process, from commissioning interdisciplinary and specialist journal special collections to manuscript selection, overseeing peer-reviews, and managing editorial and publication workflows. See https://olh.openlibhums.org/.

KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time 19.2, Time and the Arts special edition (Autumn 2019). I serve as an Editor for the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) peer-reviewed international journal, and edited its special edition on Time in the Arts. See https://doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341438.

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st Century Writings 6.3, David Mitchell special edition (October 2018). Following the David Mitchell Conference 2017, I served as an invited guest editor for a special edition of this peer-reviewed open access journal. See https://c21.openlibhums.org/issue/39/info/.

Journal articles

“The Future of the Open Library of Humanities: Milestones, Governance, and Sustainability.” Open Library of Humanities 7.1 (2021). Open access. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.4726.

“Introducing the Time and the Arts Special Edition: a Note from the Editor.” KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time 19.2 (2019): 107-109. Print. 1,000 words. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341438.

“Introducing the David Mitchell Special Edition of C21 Literature.” C21 Literature 6.3 (2018). 3,000 words. Open access. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.672.

“‘Looking down time’s telescope at myself’: reincarnation and global futures in David Mitchell’s fictional worlds.” KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time 17.2 (2017): 163-181. Print. 7,500 words. Following the award of the ISST

Publications

Article

Eve, Martin Paul and Harris-Birtill, Rose (2021) The Future of the Open Library of Humanities: Milestones, Governance, and Sustainability. Open Library of Humanities 7 (1), ISSN 2056-6700.
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2017) Jenni Fagan, The Sunlight Pilgrims. Foundation: The International Review Of Science Fiction 46.3 (128), pp. 112-114. ISSN 0306-4964.
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2017) 'Looking down time's telescope at myself': reincarnation and global futures in David Mitchell's fictional worlds. KronoScope: The Journal for the Study of Time 17 (2), pp. 163-181. ISSN 1567-715x.
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2016) David Mitchell: Slade House. Foundation: The International Review Of Science Fiction 45.2 (124), pp. 119-121. ISSN 0306-4964.
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2015) David Mitchell: The Bone Clocks. Foundation: The International Review Of Science Fiction 44.1 (120), pp. 131-134. ISSN 0306-4964.
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2015) 'A row of screaming Russian dolls': escaping the panopticon in David Mitchell's number9dream. SubStance 44 (1), pp. 55-70. ISSN 0049-2426.

Book

Harris-Birtill, Rose (2019) David Mitchell's post-secular world: Buddhism, belief and the urgency of compassion. New Horizons in Contemporary Writing. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350078598.

Book Section

Harris-Birtill, D. and Harris-Birtill, Rose (2021) Understanding computation time: a critical discussion of time as a computational performance metric. In: Misztal, A. and Harris, P.A. and Parker, J.A. (eds.) Time in Variance. The Study of Time. Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 9789004470163. (In Press)
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2019) Voicing tragedy in David Mitchell's Libretti: Wake and Sunken Garden. In: Knepper, W. and Hopf, C. (eds.) David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Contemporary Critical Perspectives. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 117-132. ISBN 9781474262118.
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2019) 'Looking Down Time's Telescope at Myself': reincarnation and global futures in David Mitchell's fictional worlds (Winner of the ISST New Scholar's Prize). In: Montemayor, C. and Daniel, R. (eds.) Time's Urgency. The Study of Time. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 16-34. ISBN 9789004408241.

Conference Item

Harris-Birtill, Rose (2016) 'Right yourself as best you may': voicing tragedy in David Mitchell's libretti. Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2016, 2016, Liverpool, UK
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2014) 'A row of screaming Russian dolls': escaping the panopticon in David Mitchell's 'Number9dream'. Current Research in Speculative Fiction, 2014, Liverpool, UK
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2014) Mitchell's mandalas: mapping David Mitchell's textual universe. David Mitchell Symposium, 2014, London, UK
Harris-Birtill, Rose After ‘Big History’: the case for (and against) ‘Big Time’. 17th Triennial Conference of The International Society for the Study of Time, Los Angeles, U.S.
Harris-Birtill, Rose Literature as ‘alternative facts’: the importance of English Studies in the ‘post-truth’ era. English: Shared Futures, Newcastle, UK
Harris-Birtill, Rose ‘Looking down time’s telescope at myself’: reincarnation and global futures in David Mitchell’s fictional worlds. 16th Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time, Edinburgh, UK
Harris-Birtill, Rose Towards a plural post-secular. BACLS-WHN 2018 Conference, Loughborough, UK

Editorial

Harris-Birtill, Rose (2019) Introducing the Time and the Arts Special Edition: a Note from the Editor. KronoScope: The Journal for the Study of Time 19 (2), pp. 107-109. Brill. ISSN 1567-715x.
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2018) Introducing the David Mitchell special edition of C21 Literature. C21 Literature: Journal of 21st Century Writings 6 (3), Open Library of Humanities. ISSN 2045-5224.

Other

Harris-Birtill, Rose (2019) KronoScope Time in the Arts special edition. KronoScope: The Journal for the Study of Time 19 (2), Brill.
Harris-Birtill, Rose (2018) C21 Literature David Mitchell special edition. C21 Literature 6 (3), pp. 1-10. The Open Library of Humanities.

External Repositories

Business and community

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