Dr Matilda Greig is a cultural historian of modern warfare, with a special focus on life writing and the Napoleonic period. She is currently working with Professor Holly Furneaux at Cardiff University as a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project ‘Strange Meetings: Enemy Encounters, 1800-2020’.
Dr Greig was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for War Studies in 2019-20, during which time she completed her first monograph, Dead Men Telling Tales: Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808-1914 (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). She also directed a public online workshop on the theme of women at war, ‘Wonder Women & Rebel Girls: Women Warriors in the Media, ca. 1800-present’, with the collaboration of UCD’s History Hub and the War Through Other Stuff Society. The video papers from the event can be viewed here: (opens in a new window)https://wonderwomenworkshop.wordpress.com/videos/
She completed her PhD at the European University Institute in 2018, having previously studied at Leiden University, Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne), and the University of Cambridge. She has received funding from the Scottish, Irish and Spanish governments, as well as the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Her work has also been published in History Workshop Journal, Nineteenth-Century Contexts and the Sorbonne doctoral journal Hypothèses.
Contact: (opens in a new window)greigm1@cardiff.ac.uk
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