Anna Reading is Professor of Culture and Creative Industries, and Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute (AHRI), King’s College London. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna is Director of the AHRI and innovative REACH space, leading socially engaged, interdisciplinary research across 13 research centres and in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.\u00a0Anna Reading has played a leading\u00a0role in developing the field of Media Memory Studies. She is the author and editor of six books, including\u00a0\u00a0Gender and Memory in the Globital Age<\/a>;\u00a0The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Memory and Culture<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Reading has held senior level University roles in the UK and Australia including Head of the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries (King\u2019s College, 2013-16) and Acting Dean for Research at Western Sydney University (2012). Her research, teaching and engagement combines her experience and expertise as a journalist, playwright and academic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Reading has research interests, publications and funded projects in gender,\u00a0memory and activism, the holocaust,\u00a0migranthood and digital\u00a0memory; media memories of\u00a0Eastern Europe and neurodiversity and cultural memory.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Reading is joint PI with\u00a0Dr James Bjork (History) and Neil Jakeman (Digital Humanities) on a King\u2019s Together research project on\u00a0Virtual Reality, Rehumanisation and Memories of Migration<\/em>\u00a0with the Museum of Migration, UK,\u00a0 following on from\u00a0\u00a0Moving Hearts<\/a>\u00a0a project on\u00a0migration and belonging with\u00a0Arizona State University and UNSW, Australia and the Museum of Migration.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Reading is an International Partner to an Australian Research Council Discovery Award 2016-20 \u201cData Centres and the Governance of Labour and Territory\u201d(434 AUD) with the\u00a0Universities in\u00a0Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore and Frankfurt. She was a Partner on a Dutch Network Grant Award\u00a0\u201cDigital Memories of the Shoah\u201d\u00a0 (2018-19)\u00a0working with partners across Europe. She lead the multi-associate Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council\/Technology Strategy Board \u2018Developing New Digital Distribution Networks for Film\u2019. AUS \u00a3186,000 (2010-12); and held Time and Memory in British Theatre, a Russian Federation, Ministry of Education Award examining new digital media archives of performances at the Royal National Theatre UK for \u00a315,500 (2009).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Gender and Memory in the Globital Age.\u00a0\/\u00a0Reading, Anna Marie.Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 235 p.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transformative Tales: Theatre Storytelling, Ethics and Restitution.\u00a0\/\u00a0Reading, Anna Marie.Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative. ed. \/ Hanna Meretoja; Colin Davis. Abingdon and New York : Routlege, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Reading\u2019s research creatively engages with social issues through the arts. Her plays, Kiss Punch Goodnight, Want, Hard-Core, Grandma’s Garden, The Stoning, Falling, RP35, Cacti Hearts and The Unkind have been performed in the UK and internationally. Her plays are discussed in Aleks Siertz,\u00a0In Yer Face Theatre: British Theatre in the 1990s;\u00a0Plays by Women, Volume Seven edited by Michelene Wandor and Mary Remnant as well as Christina Wald\u2019s\u00a0Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia: Performative Maladies in Contemporary Anglophone Drama\u00a0(2007). A Letter to my Daughter is published in\u00a0Gender and Memory in the Globital Age\u00a0(2016).Her work is translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Polish and Finnish. Anna Reading\u2019s personal digital archive is:\u00a0http:\/\/annareadingarchive.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Reading is Professor of Culture and Creative Industries, and Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute (AHRI), King’s College London. Anna is Director of the AHRI and innovative REACH space, leading socially engaged, interdisciplinary research across 13 research centres and in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.\u00a0Anna Reading has played a leading\u00a0role in … <\/p>\n
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