{"id":24619,"date":"2024-04-08T09:52:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=24619"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:59:19","slug":"spotlight-on-research-apr-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2024\/spotlight-on-research-apr-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Research: PhD student Dana Mitchell featured in the program of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Spotlight on Research: PhD student Dana Mitchell featured in the program of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>In honour of the approaching conference season, this month\u2019s spotlight features a paper presented last fall by <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/dana-mitchell\/\">Dana Mitchell<\/a>, a PhD student in the Department of English. Mitchell\u2019s paper, \u201cAutobiography and Audience in Anne Thicknesse\u2019s <em>School for Fashion<\/em>,\u201d was featured in the program of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) conference. The conference, \u201cMatters and Materials of Life, 1660-1820,\u201d was held in October 2023 in Montreal. Mitchell\u2019s paper focused on Anne Thicknesse\u2014an eighteenth-century musician, writer, and socialite\u2014and her semi-autobiographical novel, <em>The School for Fashion<\/em>. Published by subscription in 1800, the novel follows Euterpe, a young heroine who overcomes societal pressure and gendered expectations to perform her music publicly. Examining the intersections between fact, fiction, and extraliterary labour, Mitchell argues that the book\u2019s subscription list illuminates the autobiographical elements of the text and helps renegotiate Thicknesse\u2019s controversial reputation in fashionable society. The paper was developed from Mitchell\u2019s interest in women\u2019s writing and research, and from work she completed for Dr. Hugh Reid\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2023\/graduate-courses-2023-24\/\">graduate course on Eighteenth-Century Book Subscription Lists<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/Spotlight-on-Research-April-1-240x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24620\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of the approaching conference season, this month\u2019s spotlight features a paper presented last fall by Dana Mitchell, a PhD student in the Department of English. Mitchell\u2019s paper, \u201cAutobiography and Audience in Anne Thicknesse\u2019s School for Fashion,\u201d was featured in the program of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) conference. The conference, \u201cMatters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,33,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-publications-successes","category-news","category-sor"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24619"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27367,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24619\/revisions\/27367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}