Faridah Mazhar
DARE Project: Intragender & Intergender Microviolence Experienced By Female Authors
Program(s) of Study: English and Professional Writing
Project Supervisor: Kelly Thomson
Book reviews are important: they tell us how people perceive writers and how others should think about them as well. They have the power to sway people and dictate careers.
Project Description:
The project seeks to analyze the reviews of authors—specifically of Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie during their time—and how these reviews can be understood as forms of micro-violence. Doing such an analysis is significant: at their time, (book) reviews significantly influenced the social and economic success of the author and how they were perceived in their literary field. Thus, our study of scrutinizing literary reviews of these two female detective authors in a male-dominated genre is intended to illuminate instances of intragender and intergender micro-violence inflicted upon them. In this project, I worked with Professor Kelly Thomson as I compiled book reviews published in newspapers on books written by Christie and Sayers. After, we deduced a deductive coding framework, deciding how we will code to see intragender and intergender micro-violence.The Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE) – Undergraduate enables our students to meaningfully engage in research projects supervised by LA&PS faculty members. Find out more about DARE.