Georgie Rowe

• BA English (2016-19)
• MA Literature and Culture (2019-20)

Both my undergraduate and master's degrees were completed within the English department at the University of Birmingham, with dissertations focusing on Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern.

During this time I worked for The National Student as a section editor (2017-19), and acted as Notes editor to Ad Alta: the Birmingham Journal of Literature (2019-20). I currently work as a transcription editor for Just: Access.

I am researching British traditional folk music and the ways in which it has evolved into the twenty-first century, notably how it has gone from a genre predominantly featuring works from the oral tradition to one which welcomes new compositions. Chapters will focus on topics which display the various evolutions of the genre, notably locality, environmentalism and anti-capitalism, using genre theory as a framework.

I am a recent recipient of the Estella Canziani Post-Graduate Bursary for Research, which will be going towards an archive visit to Cecil Sharp House in the summer of 2022.