{"id":245,"date":"2015-03-18T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=245"},"modified":"2015-03-18T11:09:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:09:57","slug":"phd-success-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/03\/18\/phd-success-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our congratulations go to Emma Cleary who successfully defended her PhD thesis, &#8216;Jazz-Shaped Bodies: Mapping City Space, Time, and Sound in Black Transnational Literature&#8217;,\u00a0 last Thursday. The examiners, Dr.s Mark Brown form Staffs and Brian Jarvis from Loughborough), praised the work for its conceptual sophistication, its wide-ranging approach to Black transnational literature (the US, Canada and the Caribbean; the novel, short story and spoken word poetry and rap), and its precision of expression and presentation. The project was supervised by Dr Lisa Mansell.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Dr Cleary!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_246\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2015\/03\/Emma-viva.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-246\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2015\/03\/Emma-viva-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Emma (center) with the examiners (right) and her supervision team.\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/03\/Emma-viva-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/03\/Emma-viva-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2015\/03\/Emma-viva-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma (center) with the examiners (right) and her supervision team.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our congratulations go to Emma Cleary who successfully defended her PhD thesis, &#8216;Jazz-Shaped Bodies: Mapping City Space, Time, and Sound in Black Transnational Literature&#8217;,\u00a0 last Thursday. The examiners, Dr.s Mark Brown form Staffs and Brian Jarvis from Loughborough), praised the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/03\/18\/phd-success-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3626,40446,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-student-success-2","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}