Rachel Eager
Email: r.eager.1@research.gla.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8491-2159
Research title: The Emblem Vogue: Interrogating Stereotypes Across the Ages
Research Summary
My doctoral research investigates representations of gender and race by analysing popular culture in the 16th, 17th and 21st centuries using primary materials of emblem books and 2020 Vogue magazine. The research enters magazines into Emblem Studies and revisits the works of Margaret Gatty, linking the emblem and magazine. An innovative framework is created which can be reapplied to popular culture diachronically, such as comic books and websites.
Supervisors
Grants
- University of Glasgow College of Arts Research Support Award, 2022.
- Beatrix Whistler and James McNeill Whistler Travel Scholarship, 2022.
- University of Glasgow College of Arts Research Support Award, 2023.
- Beatrix Whistler and James McNeill Whistler Travel Scholarship, 2023.
Conference
- 'The Emblem Vogue: Revisiting Magazines in Emblem Studies', Road To Vienna III, 13th International Conference for the Society For Emblem Studies, May 2024.
- 'Building an academic CV: Internships', This PhD Life, University of Glasgow, Jan. 2024.
- This PhD Life, University of Glasgow January 2024 (Co-organised and chaired a panel).
- Works in progress: text/image storytelling -- a postgraduate roundtable as part of the Stirling Maxwell Centre Seminar Series (Co-organised and co-chaired).
- 'Blogging During Your PhD', This PhD Life, University of Glasgow, October 2023.
- 'Parallel Forms: Does Vogue Have the Same Effect as a Comic?', The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society, July 2023.
- 'Emblematic Aspects of Vogue in a Broader Context', 12th International Conference for the Society For Emblem Studies, Coimbra, Portugal, July 2022.
Teaching
I am an Associate Fellow for the Advanced HE and teach on a variety of courses:
2023-2024
- Comparative Literature 1B (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
- French Culture 1 (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
- French Culture 2 (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
- The Top-Up Programme (Widening Participation Tutor for External Relations)
- Secondary school outreach talks across 6 institutions in and around Glasgow and the West Coast of Scotland on access to university and widening participation (Widening Participation Tutor for External Relations)
- Senior Phase Tutoring - 1to1 Tutoring for Higher English in collaboration with Glasgow City Council (Widening Participation Tutor for External Relations)
- University Experience Week (Widening Participation Tutor for External Relations)
- 'The European Emblem' Honours Course (Co-convener and Lecturer)
- 'Text/Image' Honours Course (Lecturer on a rotational basis)
- French Grammar and Translation Honours Course (Tutor)
2022-2023
- Comparative Literature 1B (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
- French Culture 1 (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
- French Culture 2 (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
- The Top-Up Programme (Widening Participation Tutor for External Relations)
- Secondary school outreach talks across 6 institutions in and around Glasgow and the West Coast of Scotland on access to university and widening participation (Widening Participation Tutor for External Relations)
- Designed and delivered a half-day technical training workshop to the Research Services Directorate on graphic design and communication and accessibility.
Additional Information
Publications
Editorial Work
- University of Glasgow Postgraduate Blog Editor and Contributor August 2022 - November 2023.
- The Kelvingrove Review, 'Place and Space', issue 19 (2022), University of Glasgow.
Blog Posts
- 'The value of internships as a doctoral learning mode' The Auditorium (November, 2023).
- 'Navigating student and staff status: a unique space', The Auditorium (April, 2023).
- 'The importance of non-academic spaces in community building' The Auditorium (July, 2023)
- 'Reflections From The Outgoing Interns 22-23: From Rachel Eager (Comms)', UofGPGR Blog (November 2023).
- 'What I Am Learning And Changing From Attending Conferences', UofGPGR Blog (September 2023).
- 'The joy of reading for pleasure', UofGPGR Blog (June 2023).
- 'Things nobody talks about: Conference edition', UofGPGR Blog (December, 2022).
- 'This PhD Life 2022', UofGPGR Blog (November 2022).
Administration
- Co-convener of 'The European Emblem' Honours course 2023
Academic Background
- MA French and Politics (Honours of the First Class), University of Glasgow, 2021.
- MPhil. Comp. Lit. Transferred to PhD, University of Glasgow, 2021-2022.
Projects and Affiliations
- The Graphix Project: Scottish Education Co-ordinator and Researcher.
- Member of the Stirling Maxwell Centre for Text and Image Studies at the University of Glasgow.
- PGR Representative for the Stirling Maxwell Centre for Text and Image Studies at the University of Glasgow 2023
- PGR Intern (Comms), UofG Researcher Development, 2022-2023
- Member of the Digital Cultural Heritage Catalyst.
Professional Memberships
- The Society For Emblem Studies
- British Comparative Literature Association
