User:Cordelia95/Gerri Kimber

Dr Gerri Kimber FHEA, PGCRDS is an author and academic, who specialises in the life and work of the New Zealand-born modernist short story writer, Katherine Mansfield. She was educated at the University of Birmingham (BA) and the University of Exeter (PhD). She is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Northampton, and Chair of the international Katherine Mansfield Society.

Gerri has made significant manuscript discoveries pertaining to Katherine Mansfield. In February 2013, whilst researching at the Alexander Turnbull Library she discovered an unknown creative piece by Mansfield titled 'Sumurun: An Impression of Leopoldine Constantin'. Her discovery was the subject of a commentary piece 'How Vicious I Looked' in the Times Literary Supplement. In August 2014, Gerri made another discovery whilst at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. A forgotten play fragment by Tennessee Williams called 'The Night of the Zeppelin', has Mansfield as one of the four main characters, the others being John Middleton Murry, D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence. This discovery led to another commentary piece in the Times Literary Supplement: 'A Fragment of an Unknown Play by Tennessee Williams'.

 Awards 

2014: Society of Authors, Authors Foundation award.

2014-15: Fellow, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

2015: Research Grant, Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand.

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