Pauline McGonagle
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07464969754 |
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| Nationality: |
Irish |
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| 2012-2014: |
University of Kent Completed part time taught MA in Postcolonial Studies. Courses on Literature with Professor Donna Landry, Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah and Dr Alex Padamsee. Dissertation thesis title " 'The Funny side of everything': The value of humour in the work of Kiran Nagarkar". |
| 2004-2010: |
The Open University Completed BA degree in Humanities with English literature (First Class Honours) by distance learning. |
| 1988-1989: |
University College Cork, Ireland Completed postgraduate Higher Diploma in Education in placement at Sacred Heart Girl's Secondary School, Turner's Cross, Cork city. |
| 1984-1988: |
University College Cork, Ireland Completed a combination four year degree with the Awards of BA in Geography in 1987 and BMus Honours in Music in 1988. |
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Professional/research experience |
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| 2015 - present: |
The British Library Researching the Ruth Prawer Jhabvala archive for the Collaborative Doctorate involved researching the Allen & Unwin archives at University of Reading, the John Murray archives at National Library of Scotland, the Booker Prize/Book Trust archives at Oxford Brookes and digital research at the Brotherton Library at University of Leeds. I catalogued the Jhabvala collection at the British Library and I am currently preparing the material for conservation and public access. |
| 2012 - present: |
Soundproofs15 Freelance editor and Proofreader Self-Employed. Found at Soundproofs15@gmail.com Working with academic researchers and professional, children's and YA's authors, businesses, public bodies, organisations and fiction authors. Includes contracts with AthenaCheck based in Amsterdam, transcriptions of archival materials for academic publications and conversions of transcribed recordings to memoirs for public representatives. |
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CV: Membership of Professional Bodies/Professional Qualifications |
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| 2014-present: |
The Postcolonial Association |
| 2013-present: |
Chartered Institute for Editors and Proofreaders Intermediate Member (former Society for Editors and Proofreaders) and active in local Kent Branch. |
