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Banting Fellow and fiction writer nets national SSHRC Talent Award
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Biography
Claire Battershill is a fiction writer and scholar, whose books include a short story collection Circus (McClelland & Stewart 2014) and a scholarly monograph Modernist Lives: Biography and Autobiography at Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press (Bloomsbury 2017). She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and the Department of English at the University of Toronto and a Fellow at Victoria College. She received her BA(Hons) in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and her PhD in English Literature and Book History from the University of Toronto. Previously Battershill was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer at the University of Reading and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University. She was the 2017 SSHRC Impact Award Winner in the Talent Category.